### Amazon.com Review Peter Straub's _Mr. X_ is an enthralling, complex tale of a decent young man troubled since childhood by barely understood flashes of precognition and an awareness of a shadowy "other." Ned Dunstan returns home to Edgerton, Illinois, a raffish and atmospheric Mississippi Riv
Mr. X
β Scribed by Peter Straub
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 332 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307757633
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β¦ Synopsis
For more than two decades Peter Straub has engrossed, entertained, and terrified us with his dazzling blend of cool artistry and mad, spine-tingling imagination. With Mr. X, the bestselling author of Ghost Story, The Talisman (with Stephen King), and The Hellfire Club takes us into the darkest dimensions of the human psyche and proves once again that he is without peer in the realm of psychological suspense and horror, a master storyteller whose unique and powerful gifts qualify him to be called the Edgar Allan Poe of our times.
Mr. X is Straub's original and startling take on the theme of the doppelgΓ€nger. Ned Dunstan's birthday is fast approaching, and every year on this date, Ned experiences a paralyzing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious and malevolent figure in black whom Ned calls Mr. X.
Ned has been drawn back to his hometown, Edgerton, Illinois, by a...
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### Amazon.com Review Peter Straub's *Mr. X* is an enthralling, complex tale of a decent young man troubled since childhood by barely understood flashes of precognition and an awareness of a shadowy "other." Ned Dunstan returns home to Edgerton, Illinois, a raffish and atmospheric Mississippi Rive
### Amazon.com Review Peter Straub's _Mr. X_ is an enthralling, complex tale of a decent young man troubled since childhood by barely understood flashes of precognition and an awareness of a shadowy "other." Ned Dunstan returns home to Edgerton, Illinois, a raffish and atmospheric Mississippi Riv
For more than two decades Peter Straub has engrossed, entertained, and terrified us with his dazzling blend of cool artistry and mad, spine-tingling imagination. With Mr. X, the bestselling author of Ghost Story, The Talisman (with Stephen King), and The Hellfire Club takes us into the darkest dimen
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For more than two decades Peter Straub has engrossed, entertained, and terrified us with his dazzling blend of cool artistry and mad, spine-tingling imagination. With Mr. X, the bestselling author of **Ghost Story, The Talisman** (with Stephen King), and **The Hellfire Club** takes us into the darke