Mrs. God | |
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Cover of the first edition |
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Author(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.
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.