In the Night Room. Peter Straub

      I wanted to write, and just tell you that me and my spirit were fighting this morning. It is’nt known generally, and you must’nt tell anybody.

      – EMILY DICKINSON,

      letter to Emily Fowler, 1850

       The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

      – ROGER SCRUTON

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

Part One WILLY’S LOSING HER MIND AGAIN/SO IS TIM

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       Part Two TWO VOICES FROM A CLOUD

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       Part Three THE ROLE OF TOM HARTLAND

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       Part Four TIM UNDERHILL SAILS TO BYZANTIUM/SO DOES WILLY

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       Part Five THE WOMAN GLIMPSED AT THE WINDOW

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       Acknowledgments

       About the Author

       By Peter Straub

       Copyright

       About the Publisher