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Peter Straub

(1943 - )

About Peter Straub

Born in Milwaukee, Peter Straub is the author of fourteen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. He has won the British Fantasy Award, two Bram Stoker awards and two World Fantasy awards.

Series

Talisman (with Stephen King)
1. The Talisman (1984)
2. Black House (2001)
The Talisman and Black House (omnibus) (2003)

Blue Rose
1. Koko (1988)
2. Mystery (1989)
3. The Throat (1993)
Blue Rose (1995)
The Juniper Tree: And Other Blue Rose Stories (2012)

Criminal Records
3. Pork Pie Hat (1999)

Novels

Marriages (1973)
Julia (1975)
aka Full Circle
If You could See Me Now (1977)
Ghost Story (1979)
Shadowland (1980)
Floating Dragon (1983)
The General's Wife (1983)
Under Venus (1985)
The Hellfire Club (1996)
Mr. X (1999)
Lost Boy Lost Girl (2003)
In the Night Room (2004)
A Dark Matter (2010)

Omnibus

Wild Animals (1984)

Collections

Ishmael (poems) (1972)
Open Air (poems) (1972)
Houses without Doors (1990)
Ghosts (1995)
Magic Terror (1997)
A Little Blue Book Of Rose Stories (2007)
5 Stories (2008)

Graphic Novels

Ashputtle (2006)
The Talisman: Vol. 1: The Road of Trials (2009) (with Stephen King)
The Green Woman (2010) (with Michael Easton)

Novellas

Mrs God (1991)
A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter (2010)
The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine (2012)
The Buffalo Hunter (2012)

Anthology series

Conjunctions (with Bradford Morrow)
39. The New Wave Fabulists (2002)

Best Horror of the Year (with Laird Barron, Ellen Datlow, Stephen King and John Langan)
4. The Best Horror of the Year Volume 4 (2012)

Anthologies edited

Peter Straub's Ghosts (1995)
Poe's Children: The New Horror (2008)
American Fantastic Tales (2009)

Non fiction

The WaveDancer Benefit (2002) (with Pat Conroy, John Grisham and Stephen King)
Sides (2007)

Anthologies containing stories by Peter Straub

Short stories

	Hunger: An Introduction
	Blue Rose [short story] (1985)
	The Juniper Tree [short story] (1988)		Bram Stoker (nominee)
	A Short Guide to the City (1990)
	The Kingdom of Heaven (1991)
	The Ghost Village (1992)		World Fantasy
	Fee (1994)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	In Transit (1995) (with Benjamin Straub)
	Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff (1998)		World Fantasy (nominee) Bram Stoker
	Pork Pie Hat [short story] (1999)		British Fantasy Society (nominee)
	The Geezers (2000)

Awards

	World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1981) : Shadowland
	British Fantasy Society Best Novel winner (1984) : Floating Dragon
	World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1985) : The Talisman
	Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (1989) : The Juniper Tree [short story]
	World Fantasy Best Novel winner (1989) : Koko
	Bram Stoker Best Collection nominee (1991) : Houses without Doors
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1991) : Houses without Doors
	World Fantasy Best Novella winner (1993) : The Ghost Village
	Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (1994) : The Throat
	World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1994) : The Throat
	World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1995) : Fee
	British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1996) : The Hellfire Club
	Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (1997) : The Hellfire Club
	Bram Stoker Best Novellette winner (1999) : Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff
	British Fantasy Society Best Short story nominee (1999) : Pork Pie Hat [short story]
	World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1999) : Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff
	Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (2000) : Mr. X
	Bram Stoker Best Collection winner (2001) : Magic Terror
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (2001) : Magic Terror
	Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (2002) : Black House
	Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (2004) : In the Night Room
	British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (2004) : Lost Boy Lost Girl

Books about Peter Straub

Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography (2003) by Michael R Collings

Links to other websites

peterstraub.net

Peter Straub recommends

An Affair of Sorcerers (1979) (Mongo, book 3) George C Chesbro "Beautifully plotted and assured...the work of a master."	To Wake the Dead (1980) Ramsey Campbell "The book Ramsey Campbell readers have been waiting for...affects the reader for days afterward...it makes death itself look sweet because of the ghastly things that can happen this side of death."	Small World (1981) Tabitha King "So clever it could cut your skin. Tabitha King knows how to create suspense. She has a unique and self-possessed view of things and a talent for the grotesque."
Books of Blood Volume 1 (1981) Clive Barker "Clive Barker has been an amazing writer from his first appearance, with the great gifts of invention and commitment to his own vision stamped on every page."	The Nestling (1982) Charles L Grant "It's entertaining, suspenseful, but it's a lot of other things too...and while it's nasty enough to give us a kick in the shins, it is oddly tender towards the world."	The Uninvited (1982) John Farris "One of the giants of contemporary psychological horror. The evil in The Uninvited is utterly convincing."
Incarnate (1983) Ramsey Campbell "An important, scary, involving novel...I had to fight with myself every time circumstances forced me to put it down."	The Night of the Ripper (1984) Robert Bloch "The sort of book that just grabs you and makes you read it."	The Hungry Moon (1986) Ramsey Campbell "Horrors in his fiction are never merely invented, they are felt and experienced, and affect the reader for days afterwards."
Books of Blood Volume 3 (1986) Clive Barker "Barker has been an amazing writer from his first appearance, with a great gift of invention and commitment that stands on every page."	Sympathy for the Devil (1987) Kent Anderson "Kent Anderson has outwritten just about everybody who preceded him in trying to make fictional sense out of the war... a very brave book."	Weaveworld (1987) Clive Barker "Weaveworld will be a guide for everyone who travels there in the future. I think it'll probably be imitated for the next decade or so, as lesser talents try to crack its code and tame its insights."
Billy (1990) Whitley Strieber "An amazingly gripping book... a knockout."	Boy's Life (1991) Robert R McCammon "Just gorgeous...I loved it."	X, Y (1993) Michael Blumlein "Michael Blumlein is a real genius...I don't think anybody is going to be able to imitate him."
California Gothic (1995) Dennis Etchison "One of horror's most exciting talents."	Lizard Wine (1995) Elizabeth Engstrom "Sleek, nasty, perfectly focused, smart as hell, absolutely convincing."	Impulse (1996) Rick Hautala "Rick Hautala's writing shines with dedication, hard-earned craft and devotion."
Strangewood (1999) Christopher Golden "A notable achievement ... wildly inventive."	The Hook (2000) Donald E Westlake "THE HOOK begins with an agreement signed in blood and smoothly, unobtrusively, gracefully, relentlessly moves toward absolute devastation. This is Donald E. Westlake at the top of his form, writing with the power and confidence of a master and keeping the reader dazzled and agape all the way to the last sentence."	Ghosts Who Cannot Sleep (2000) Alan Rodgers "Mama Ghost really must be one of the best, and certainly one of the most disturbing, horror stories written during the last decade and a half."
Judas Eyes (2001) (Eyes , book 3) Barry Hoffman "Leagues ahead of almost anything these days passing as horror or suspense fiction."	Brain Trust (2001) (Body of Evidence, book 8) Christopher Golden and Rick Hautala "Rick Hautala's writing shines with dedication, hard earned craft, and devotion."	The Darkest Part of the Woods (2002) Ramsey Campbell "In some ways Ramsey Campbell is the best of us all."
The Shooting Gallery (2002) (Detective Yablonsky, book 2) Joseph Trigoboff "Joseph Trigoboff knows what he's talking about. In THE SHOOTING GALLERY, he guides us, like a clear-eyed combination of Jimmy Breslin and William Burroughs, though the ripely urban landscape where crooked judges, wised-up journalists, hypocritical politicians and weary cops define the reality the rest of us, whether we know it or not, have to live with. Trigoboff's ear is pitch perfect, and his heart is where it should be."	My Father's Ghost (2002) Suzy McKee Charnas "A supremely unsentimental, beautifully observed, and forgiving memoir. "	Nightmare House (2002) (Harrow Academy, book 3) Douglas Clegg "Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction."
Scream Queen (2003) Edo van Belkom "This novel knows where it is going and intends to get there with no wasted motion."	The Boys Are Back in Town (2004) Christopher Golden "Christopher Golden is one of the most hard-working, smartest, and most talented writers of his generation, and his books are so good and so involving that they really ought to sell in huge numbers. Everything he writes glows with imagination."	Mortal Love (2004) Elizabeth Hand "I think she has written the best book of her generation."
An Invisible Woman (2004) Anne Strieber "Anne Strieber is in the class of writers like Nora Roberts and Sandra Brown."	Josie and Jack (2005) Kelly Braffet "I couldn't stop reading this marvelous book."	Six Bad Things (2005) (Hank Thompson, book 2) Charlie Huston "Six Bad Things rocks and rolls from the first page. This is one mean, cols, slit-eyed mother of a book."
Shriek: An Afterword (2006) Jeff VanderMeer "Playful, poignant, and utterly, wildly imaginative."	The Keeper (2006) Sarah Langan "[A] distinct and juicy flavor all its own. THE KEEPER begins what should be a very fruitful career."	The Screaming Room (2007) (John Driscoll, book 2) Thomas O'Callaghan "O'Callaghan has scorched his way into the first rank of writers."
No Further Messages (2007) Brett Alexander Savory "Savory deserves to make a great impression on both our highly mutable genre and the reading public."	The Gargoyle (2008) Andrew Davidson "The Gargoyle is purely and simply an amazement."	The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008) Ellen Datlow "Ellen Datlow is the queen of anthology editors in America."
Everdead (2008) Rio Youers "One of the most vital, most exciting young talents to come along in this decade."	The Dragon Factory (2010) (Joe Ledger, book 2) Jonathan Maberry "Heated, violent and furious."	Internecine (2010) David J Schow "Smart, scathing, and verbally inventive to an astonishing degree, David J. Schow is one of the most interesting writers of his generation."
Loss of Separation (2011) Conrad Williams "Williams possesses a fearless heart and an absolutely gorgeous soul."	Hide Me Among the Graves (2012) Tim Powers "Tim Powers has long been one of my absolutely favorite writers, those whose new books I snatch up as soon as they appear."

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