"Besides being quite a bit longer, this version of Mrs. God is different in a thousand stylistic and thematic details from the later one included in my collection Houses Without Doors. In at least one sense it is 'purer'—that is, closer to my original intentions. It represents Mrs. God as I originally intended it to be, an enigmatic, bizarre, dream-like experience in which most of the usual narrative signposts and road maps are inaccurate, concealed, or missing altogether. . . . I found that I had written a chamber novel, a kind of meditation on sex, violence, and the sacred."
— Peter Straub
Illustrated in full color by the award winning painter, Rick Berry.
