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Mr. X

By Peter Straub

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780449149904

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Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan is cursed with visions of horror committed by a savage figure he calls "Mr. X." This year, Ned's visions will become flesh and blood.

A dreadful premonition brings Ned home to find his mother on her deathbed. She reveals the never-before-disclosed nameContinue

Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan is cursed with visions of horror committed by a savage figure he calls "Mr. X." This year, Ned's visions will become flesh and blood.

A dreadful premonition brings Ned home to find his mother on her deathbed. She reveals the never-before-disclosed name of his father and warns him of grave danger. Driven by a desperate sense of need, Ned explores his dark past and the astonishing legacy of his kin. Accused of violent crimes he has not committed and pursued by a shadowy twin, Ned enters a hidden world of ominous mysteries, where he must confront his deepest nightmares. . . .

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  • Ghosts of the self

    Mr X Peter Straub HarperCollins, £10.99, 482pp Buy it at BOL Peter Straub made his name in horror's gold-rush years with Ghost Story (1979), a fusion of honed literary style learned from classic supernatural fiction - Hawthorne, Poe - and the gaudy p ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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