In the Night Room by Peter Straub

A Haunting Metafictional Odyssey Where the Weight of Grief and the Written Word Intersect

Willy Patrick, a respected author of young-adult fiction, believes she is losing her mind when she is drawn to a warehouse to rescue a daughter she knows is already dead. Simultaneously, author Timothy Underhill is haunted by the ghost of his nine-year-old sister and starts receiving fragmented emails from the deceased. When Willy and Timothy meet, they discover terrifying parallels between her tragic reality and the story in his unfinished manuscript. In In the Night Room, Peter Straub delivers a chase novel that twists genre elements into something unexpected, forcing his characters to join forces against the evils surrounding them.