No Doors No Windows

This collects 16 stories and has the introduction from the original release.

No doors no windows.

Most of these stories were new to me but they re short the book is just under 200 pages with the intro and for the most part just aren t as good as his other works. Blood thoughts the whimper of whipped dogs eddie you re my friend status quo at troyden s nedra at f 5 6 opposites attract. No doors no windows finds scott mast back home in small town america for his father s funeral. It contains mostly suspense and crime tales along with a very long introduction by ellison.

A knockout book peter straub a harrowing up all night read with delicious scares at every turn tess gerritsen on eat the dark joe schreiber is the author of chasing the dead eat the dark and no doors no windows. His alcoholic brother can barely take care of his precocious nephew but scott s about to go back to his succesful job writing greeting cards on the coast when he finds pages from a novel manuscript written by his assumedly unimaginative father. No doors no windows reads smoother and more fluently than all of schreiber s previous works not because they re inferior but because his craft has improved to such a degree that this one feels like a masterpiece. It contains primarily material from mystery and men s magazines from the 50s and 60s and these stories were selected as the best of his work from that oeuvre.

No doors no windows sounded like a good choice from the few titles i was missing so i picked up a copy. No doors no windows draws us into a fearsome doom haunted world that closes down like a trap. My favorites are two of the later works the whimper of whipped dogs and tired old man.