"A Short Guide to the City" is a 1990 horror short story by American writer Peter Straub collected in Houses Without Doors. It combines two disparate literary forms: a self-congratulatory travel brochure published by an unnamed city's Chamber of Commerce, and a news report about the murderous killing spree of a so-called "viaduct killer."
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- contained in American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Nowanthology
- contained in American Gothic Talesanthology
- contained in Best New Horror 2anthology
- contained in Houses Without Doorscollection
- contained in Interior Darkness: Selected Storiescollection
- contained in Terror Tales (Number Three)anthology
- contained in The Giant Book of Best New Horroranthology
- contained in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collectionanthology