Literature

Written by Sarah Langan
Harper - Available Sept 23, 2009

Audrey’s Door is the latest horror novel from Sarah Langan, who gave us The Keeper and The Missing, and it channels Polanski’s The Tenant along with a little bit of Rosemary’s Baby (which are both listed as inspirations in the preface) along with a creepy almost ‘Henry James’ attitude towards New York City and its inhabitants. Langan has a great talent for character development if, despite the intensity of the plots, good tends to triumph over evil (I never like that) and things get wrapped up nice and tidy in the last chapters of her novels. Nevertheless, Audrey Lucas is a creation with whom a chick can really identify; she’s insecure, complex, and caught up in a severely screwed up and macabre situation in her new apartment building where the other tenants are more than a bit odd...