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These psychic and horror fictions - seven of these short-shorts - unveils Straub at his spellbinding best. Two stories (first installments of his Blue Rose trilogy), are linked to Koko and Unknown and exactingly probe the consequences of boyhood clashes with bad. In "Blue Rose," sadistic Harry Beevers, 10, hypnotizes and destroys his younger brother; the story leaps forward to the ironic verdict in Harry's court-martial for wreaking atrocities in Vietnam. In the exceptional "The Juniper Tree," a novelist relives a harrowing, seductive summer season when, at years seven, he was sexually molested in a movie house by drifter Stan, a seedy Alan Ladd lookalike. "The Buffalo Hunter" fastidiously chronicles the fixations of any 35-year-old who numbs his concern with women by sucking his caffeine and cognac from baby containers. In the ambitious gothic thriller/academics spoof "Mrs. God," a fatuous teacher is lured to a creepy English mansion crammed with grisly secrets to analyze the papers of his poet ancestress; lifeless babies provide a subtheme. Wry and riveting, "A BRIEF Guide to the City" fuses and parodies two styles: the self-congratulatory visitor blurb with a news alert on the "viaduct killer."
