"A Short Guide to the City" is a 1990 short story by American horror writer Peter Straub collected in Houses Without Doors. It blends and fuses two disparate literary forms: a self congratulatory travel brochure published by a city's Chamber of Commerce and a news report about the murderous killing spree of the "viaduct killer."
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