In the Night Room

Summary

Novelist Tim Underhill, still shaken by the events surrounding his nephew, finds the boundary between fiction and reality breaking down when a character from his own writing seems to step into his life. Straub mixes metafiction, grief, and supernatural menace as Tim travels with a woman named Willy who cannot fully exist in his world. The book serves as a companion to Lost Boy, Lost Girl and deepens its themes of loss and the power of storytelling.