Magic terror

This book presents stories marked by brutality, heartbreak, despair, wonder and an unexpected humour. 'Bunny Is Good Bread' takes the reader into the mind of a small boy trapped in grotesque circumstances to portray the creation of a serial killer. ?Hunger, an Introduction?, narrated by the ghost of a pompous, self-pitying murderer, evokes a profoundly beautiful vision of earthly life, one appreciated far more by the dead than the living. While the award-winning novella 'Mr Clubb and Mr Cuff', a masterpiece of black comedy, is a revenge tale in which torture is a moral art and the revenger undergoes a transforming, albeit painful, education. In the words of Mrs Asch, the narrator of 'Ashputtle', 'the main feature of adventure is that it goes forward into unknown country.' Straub?s devotees will be entranced by what their fearless guide has in store for them. Those as yet uninitiated are in for a harrowing literary journey.