- Mrs. God (novel)
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Mrs. God 
Cover of the first editionAuthor(s) Peter Straub Illustrator Rick Berry Cover artist Rick Berry Country United States Language English Genre(s) Fantasy novel Publisher Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. Publication date 1990 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 201, iv pp ISBN ISBN 0-937986-96-8 (deluxe edition)
ISBN 0-937986-97-6 (trade edition)OCLC Number 24427510 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 20 LC Classification PS3569.T6914 M77 1990 Mrs. God is a fantasy novel by Peter Straub. It was first published in 1990 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,350 copies, of which 600 copies were signed by the author and the artist, bound in quarter leather and slipcased as a deluxe edition. The novel is expanded from the short novel of the same name that appeared in Straub's collection Houses Without Doors.
Summary
The novel concerns a professor who is researching the poems of his grandmother at an English manor. He finds himself drawn into a nightmarish landscape where he is pursued by dead babies.
References
- Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento (2007-11-20). "The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984-1998)". http://www.locusmag.com/index/b461.htm#A6722.34. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.. pp. 334.
- Clute, John; John Grant (1997). The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 902. ISBN 0-88184-708-9.
Categories:- 1990 novels
- American fantasy novels
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