A Short Guide To The City - Critical Response

Critical Response

In the realm of pure literary review, New York Times book critic Walter Kendrick described the piece as Houses Without Doors' "most chilling story" and "its most blatantly artistic one" while fellow New York Times critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt found it "a shade too vague and portentous to absorb the reader completely."

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