No Doors No Windows

No doors no windows draws us into a fearsome doom haunted world that closes down like a trap.

No doors no windows.

No doors no windows is a 1975 short story collection by american author harlan ellison. No doors no windows finds scott mast back home in small town america for his father s funeral. This collects 16 stories and has the introduction from the original release. A knockout book peter straub a harrowing up all night read with delicious scares at every turn tess gerritsen on eat the dark joe schreiber is the author of chasing the dead eat the dark and no doors no windows.

Blood thoughts the whimper of whipped dogs eddie you re my friend status quo at troyden s nedra at f 5 6 opposites attract. An intriguing deep character driven novel that will sweep you off your feet and into the imagination of joe schreiber. No doors no windows is probably ellison s best collection of non fantasy stories. It contains primarily material from mystery and men s magazines from the 50s and 60s and these stories were selected as the best of his work from that oeuvre.

His alcoholic brother can barely take care of his precocious nephew but scott s about to go back to his succesful job writing greeting cards on the coast when he finds pages from a novel manuscript written by his assumedly unimaginative father. It contains mostly suspense and crime tales along with a very long introduction by ellison. Most of these stories were new to me but they re short the book is just under 200 pages with the intro and for the most part just aren t as good as his other works.