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Shadowland - Peter Straub
Shadowland
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You have been there… if you have ever been afraid.   Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician.   Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient... show more
You have been there… if you have ever been afraid.   Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician.   Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real.   Only one of them will make it through.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN: 9780425188224 (0425188221)
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 468
Edition language: English
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LittleBookCove
LittleBookCove rated it
2.5 Not quite what i was expecting
Shadowland was a surreal book right from the offset. It start's when Tom Flanagan now an adult tells a tale of his youth to someone. That tale is woven with magic, and fantasy and adolescent Adventures. I'm not going to lie I found this book a struggle by the time I got to the middle of it, I had to...
Cody's Bookshelf
Cody's Bookshelf rated it
3.5 SHADOWLAND Review
Despite the fact that Peter Straub is my second-favorite author, I always go into his books with a slight sense of trepidation and doubt. Straub is an excellent writer, no doubt about that; his books just require a certain frame of mind because... well, they aren't always as they seem. Straub is the...
Shelf Indulgence
Shelf Indulgence rated it
4.0 Shadowland
Shadowland was the third in the books I enjoyed so much as a kid, but when I read as an adult, I realized that this book wasn't ever really about looking back on the idylls of youth. In fact, there wasn't even much of a pretense of putting anything idyllic in this novel at all. The only redeeming ...
CarlAlves
CarlAlves rated it
5.0 Shadowland
Shadowland was one of the first horror books I read growing up (I think I may have been twelve at the time that I read it). Along with some of the early works of Stephen King, it was one of the big reasons I became addicted to the genre and later became a writer. Shadowland is a richly written, comp...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
3.0 Shadowland - Peter Straub
Thirty years ago I loved this book. It still has redeeming qualities, but it isn't pure awesome. It has some flaws. For one thing, the form is a muddle. the narrator is a reporter who is putting together bits of this story he's heard from Tom Flanagan about events that took place twenty years earlie...
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