![]() ![]() She tentatively treads into relationships, and moves into a New York City edifice with an eerie past. Even the hardest thing: change.”Īudrey’s attempts at change have a mixed degree of success. She observes that, “The thing about other people is, they’re not you.” Attempting to fit in, while seeing every imperfection, she waxes philosophical: “Sometimes you get so tired of living in your own skin that you’ll do anything to peel it off. An obsessive-compulsive disordered daughter of a severely mentally disturbed mother, the character tries to function. The Audrey of the title has major mental baggage. All the while, the author never forgets the literary legacies of Shirley Jackson and Ira Levin. In Audrey’s Door, she probingly scrutinizes alienation and psychological aberrations. ![]() It’s horror writing at its most intense and febrile about getting down to the real nitty-gritty of personal terrors in an impersonal world. Should the accolade be construed as being on a par with this year’s Academy Award to director Kathyrn Bigelow? If a superficial look at gender is an issue, then yes but Langan’s achievement isn’t about trying to break through glass ceilings. This catapults Sarah Langan into a lofty position: She joins the heady ranks of Peter Straub, Stephen King, and Robert McCammon in achieving two wins in that category. ![]() Audrey’s Door won the Bram Stoker award for best novel of 2009. ![]()
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