Bought this book yesterday at a Friends of the Palo Alto Library book sale. Looking forward to reading and releasing.

From back of book:
A tormented writer, unable to exorcise the demons of his past...an all-American town, plagued by horrific secrets...a beautiful woman, brutally murdered by a twisted killer thought long dead--or by an even more terrifying copycat?

Haven't read, but decided to clear up my shelves a bit.

RELEASE NOTES:

i got this from Reddragonlady at bxer mtg. she said she had read several of Straub's books and not liked any of them, so i didn't have any expectations. i read a book he'd collaborated on with Stephan King. i liked this book. i was a little weird in the beginning, figuring out why the author was referring to himself as a peripheral character, and i tend to be annoyed when authors make overt references to their earlier works, but after he got that out of his system i settled down to and enjoyed the book. i guess some things were a derivative, one killer being a Dahlmer take off, and i felt some Apoloclyse Now overtones to one of the plots. but what i liked about the book is the way that the plots overlapped and fed into each other. even when i could see where Straub had gotten an influence from it didn't bother me as much as it might have in another book. i was pulled along wanting to see how it all fit in together with the other three plots. it's seemed a nice medium point on the continuum between horror like King, and psycho-horror like some of Koontz's. i just don't know why he titled it "the Throat"

rereleased at a bxer mtg a year or more ago