Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-354-9
Fall is the traditional time for ghost stories, and readers will find a wealth of unnatural shades and haunted places in this far-ranging anthology of 29 reprints and Stephen Graham Jones’s grim original “Uncle.” Richard Bowes’s “There’s a Hole in...
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Stephen King, Author, Peter Straub, Author, Peter Straub, Joint Author . Random $28.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-375-50439-6
Today's literature is plagued by sequelitis; plagued because many of the offspring are abominations. But here's a marvelous exception. Seventeen years after King and Straub's first collaboration, The Talisman, comes an immensely...
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Jonathan Strahan. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $19.99 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-59780-345-8
Strahan’s sixth annual genre-spanning anthology lacks the clarity (or perhaps narrowness) of purpose of a series focusing solely on fantasy or SF, but the 31 selections demonstrate a knowledge of and affection for the fantastic that rival editors...
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Edited by Ellen Datlow. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $15.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-59780-399-1
The 18 scary stories that Datlow (Supernatural Noir) has selected as the best of 2011 hint at even worse horrors lurking beyond the fringes of their narratives. In “The Little Green God of Agony,” Stephen King profiles an exorcist and faith healer...
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Peter Straub, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-525-24924-5
This collection of 13 psychic and horror fictions--seven of them short-shorts--reveals Straub at his spellbinding best. Two tales (first installments of his Blue Rose trilogy), are linked to Koko and Mystery and exactingly probe the consequences of...
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Peter Straub, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-24660-2
In his most gripping, most hallucinogenic thriller to date, the author of Ghost Story and Shadowland takes us on a dizzying spin through those eerie psychic badlands where nightmare and insanity seem to fuse with reality. It's 15 years after the...
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Peter Straub, Author Signet Book $7.99 (595p) ISBN 978-0-451-16214-4
Tom Pasmore, a visionary 17-year-old, discovers his true identity as he helps a once-famous detective solve a complex case based on a murder committed 20 years earlier. ``While evocative of place and time (the early '60s) and peopled with memorable...
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Peter Straub, Author Dutton Books $24 (688p) ISBN 978-0-525-93503-2
Straub peaks with this visceral thriller, which completes his Blue Rose trilogy ( Koko ; Mystery ). The citizens of Millhaven, Ill., thought they had overcome the unsolved serial murders that plagued the town in the 1940s--the killer had scrawled...
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Peter Straub, Author Signet Book $7.99 (704p) ISBN 978-0-451-17918-0
Straub completes the Blue Rose trilogy with this visceral thriller about a string of unsolved serial murders that have plagued an Illinois town since the 1940s. (Mar.)
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Peter Straub, Author Random House (NY) $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40137-7
Continuing his shift away from occult horror toward terrors inspired by the ragged social fabric of American life, Straub (The Throat) turns in another violent yet richly nuanced thriller. As in much of his work (Mystery; Koko), the past impinges on
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Peter Straub, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-50393-1
The war-numbed soldier who asks, ""Just suppose...,that you were forced to confront extreme experience directly, without any mediation?"" speaks for all of the spiritually traumatized souls who navigate the harrowingly rendered hells of these seven...
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Peter Straub. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $20 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59606-441-6
Twisting time and expectations, Straub’s disturbing novella slowly submerges readers in an enigmatic nightmare. Ballard and Sandrine are lovers decades apart in age. As they enjoy a yacht trip down the Amazon River, all their needs are taken care of—
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Peter Straub. Pegasus, $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-60598-304-2
Originally released in 1990 as a limited edition, this atmospheric and understated novella may not be one of Straub’s most original or compelling works, but it does exemplify his supreme ability to transform a relatively pedestrian story line into...
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Peter Straub. Doubleday, $28.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-385-54105-3
This outstanding collection of 16 reprints highlights what makes Straub such a master of genre-bending horror and suspense, and it’s an effective introduction for readers new to his considerable body of work. Each story has merit, though a few of...
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Peter Straub, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-24818-7
In a meaty tribute to mystery sub-genres, Straub ( Ghost Story ) serves up a coming-of-age tale, a country-manor murder mystery and a twisted knot of governmental corruption and cover-up. Ten-year-old Tom Pasmore, a rich resident of the Caribbean...
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Peter Straub, Author Random House (NY) $25.95 (482p) ISBN 978-0-679-40138-4
Since the publication of Koko in 1988, Straub has specialized in macabre mysteries dense with the details of small-town life and cast with ordinary people who find that the extraordinary crimes they investigate raise doubts about their own moral...
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Peter Straub, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $25 (310p) ISBN 978-1-58767-165-4
Bestselling horror master Straub's first collection of non-fiction, a mixed bag that will appeal mostly to die-hard fans, includes two decades' worth of introductions (e.g., to an edition of The Stepford Wives) and a series of odd short essays by...
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Peter Straub, Author Ballantine Books $7.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-345-41500-4
In a starred review, PW called this story of a twisted serial killer ""supple and exciting."" (Aug.)
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Peter Straub, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59606-295-5
Stoker winner Straub pays a deliciously macabre visit to the universe of his expansive Blue Rose trilogy (Koko, Mystery, The Throat). In attics ("Blue Rose"), movie theaters ("The Juniper Tree"), sickrooms ("Bunny Is Good Bread"), and the jungles of
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Peter Straub, Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $12.95 paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-60598-102-4
Creepy to the core, this novella shines a terrible light on the backstory of Straub's acclaimed A Dark Matter (2010). Young Keith Hayward idolizes his charming, charismatic Uncle Till. When Keith's mother asks Till to talk to Keith after the boy is...
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Peter Straub, Author . Doubleday $26.95 (397p) ISBN 978-0-385-51638-9
In this tour de force from bestseller Straub (In the Night Room
), four high school friends in 1966 Madison, Wis.—Hootie Bly, Dilly Olson, Jason Boatman, and Lee Truax—fall under the spell of charismatic “wandering guru”...
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Peter Straub, Author . Doubleday $26.95 (534p) ISBN 978-0-385-52283-0
Anyone concerned about the future of horror will find plenty of reassurance in this outstanding reprint anthology showcasing short fiction by today's best writers in the genre. Straub (The Throat
) skillfully varies tempo and style, mixing...
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Peter Straub, Author . Random $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6252-2
In Black House
, Straub and Stephen King wrote of "slippage," whereby the borders between reality and fantasy blur. This entire brilliant novel is an act of slippage. In this sequel to last year's lost boy lost girl
, and further chapter
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Peter Straub, Author . Random $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6092-4
For its high artistry and uncanny mix of dread and hope, Straub's 16th novel, his shortest in decades, reaffirms the author's standing as the most literate and, with his occasional coauthor Stephen King, most persuasive of contemporary...
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Peter Straub, Michael Easton, and John Bolton, DC/Vertigo, $24.99 (152p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1100-4
First the good news: Bolton’s painted artwork for veteran horror novelist Straub’s first (co-written) graphic novel is as uncanny as it’s supposed to be—richly textured, vertiginous, built around creepily mottled flesh tones and images whose terrors
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Peter Straub, read by Luke Daniels. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 17 CDs, 20 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4558-3001-5
Straub's supernatural thriller chronicles Ned Dunstan's visit to his hometown of Edgerton, Ill. Drawn there by a premonition of his mother's death (which quickly proves accurate), Ned begins to discover his odd family's otherworldly secrets. His...
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Edited by Ellen Datlow. Tachyon (Legato, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-61696-206-7
Datlow, horror anthologist extraordinaire, brings together all things monstrous in this excellent reprint anthology of 20 horror stories that explore the ever-widening definition of what makes a monster, with nary a misstep. The varied sources of...
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Peter Straub, Author, Mark Bramhall, Read by, Cassandra Campbell, Read by , read by various readers. Random House Audio $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-7599-0
Edited by legendary horror writer Straub, whose works tend to vary from the stereotypical horror stories of recent decades, this collection of 12 unusual and terrifying tales strays from the formulaic bloodbaths that stock the shelves of bookstores...
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Neil Gaiman, Author, Peter Straub, Author, Jill Thompson, Author Vertigo $19.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56389-138-0
Gaiman's very popular Sandman series (this is the eighth book in the series) continues with another tale of the Endless, the family of mythic cosmic beings that govern the psychic and physical realms of Dream, Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium,...
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