At least, I thought, most readers would forget it was supposed to be an interpolated story about half-way in. The incomparable master of horror and suspense returns with a powerf. After some thought, I felt I could get it in only by presenting it as a short story written by the narrator - I wasn't happy with this tactic, in fact I disliked it intensely, but it was the only solution I could find to my dilemma. Read 631 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.
However, I did not want to lose the rehearsal and the fraternity party afterward. What the narrator could not see for himself was simply cut from the book. A Dark Matter contains echoes of all that has been great about Straub’s previous work and builds upon it. When I made the change from first to third, I had little difficulty. Of course, with the first person comes the requirement that the narrator must be present at every event, or at least hear about various episodes in some detail. One of my editors suggested putting the novel into the first person, and I agreed, thinking it would make everything more immediate. The novel was originally written in the third person, and that Hootie chapter about Mallon's rehearsal was simply a section of text, with no surrounding apparatus.
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