New Releases by Peter Straub

Jack Sawyer, a beloved and enduring King protagonist, returns in the final book in the Talisman Trilogy, the #1 New York Times bestselling collaboration between “master craftsmen” (The Washington Post) Stephen King and Peter Straub. “I wanted to go back to Mid-World, which was always the Territories by another name.” —Stephen King This is Stephen King and Peter Straub’s epic and unforgettable finale to the Talisman Trilogy (including the novels Talisman and Black House) and a wrapping up of the fate of the worlds in King’s iconic, fiercely beloved Dark Tower epic. It is also a magnificent stand-alone novel, that will appeal to new readers, as well as to King’s Constant Readers. Other Worlds Than These is the story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was twelve, crossing America and “the territories” to save his mother’s life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King (among other evils). In Other Worlds Than These, Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from America-side, and the forces of the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Mid-World, before it destroys our world and all worlds. Jack is older now; his Ka-tet (echoing the world of Roland) is fraying; and his task, nearly impossible. Magnificent, riveting, full of heart, and humor, Other Worlds Than These is a spectacular, propulsive adventure, and features thirty-six exclusive black-and-white illustrations by artist Gabriel Rodriguez. The title instantly announces to readers who already know these other worlds that King has returned to them. Other Worlds Than These will appeal to new King readers and his Constant Readers.

Les Territoires sont peuplés de chimères, de bonnes fées et de démons. Nul n''y entre, pas même un enfant, sans risquer de perdre son âme. Sauf à vouloir accéder au Talisman, seul remède contre la mort. Jack Sawyer, douze ans, est prêt à affronter toutes les épreuves pour arracher sa mère à la fin prochaine qui la menace... La réédition d''un roman culte de Stephen King et Peter Straub. « Un voyage qui rivalise avec les plus grands récits d''aventure jamais racontés. Un classique. Rare et éblouissant. » New York Daily News « Extraordinaire. » Washington Post « De la magie. » Daily Mail

“As if Harry Potter was written for grown-ups, Peter Straub’s Shadowland delivers carnage, blood, pain, fairy tales, and flashes of joy and wonder, just like real magic.”—Grady Hendrix You have been there...if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real. Only one of them will make it through.

Peut-on mourir de son imagination ? Willy Patrick, célèbre auteur du roman jeunesse maintes fois récompensé Le Cabinet noir, est en train de perdre l''esprit. Une fois de plus. Irrésistiblement attirée dans un parking désert, elle a la conviction que sa fille Holly y est retenue prisonnière. Or, Holly est morte. Le même jour, l''écrivain Timothy Underhill, qui tente depuis des mois de terminer un roman sur une jeune femme en perdition, est confronté au fantôme de sa fille de neuf ans, April. Il commence à recevoir des emails incomplets et angoissants de personnes issues de son passé - toutes décédées depuis bien longtemps. Lorsque Willy et Timothy se rencontrent, les inquiétantes ressemblances entre le deuil tragique de Willy et l''histoire du manuscrit de Timothy vont les conduire à unir leurs forces contre les ombres qui les entourent... avant que celles-ci ne se referment sur leur raison. « L''une des oeuvres les plus remarquables de la longue carrière de Peter Straub. » Publishers Weekly « Avec Night Room, Straub transcende les conventions de la littérature d''horreur. » Bookmark Magazine « Imaginatif et prenant aux tripes. » Booklist « Peter Straub est peut-être l''auteur de suspense contemporain le plus important. » Lincoln Child

« Une variation étourdissante sur le thème fantastique du double. Un très grand livre. » Jacques Baudou, Le Monde Chaque année depuis l''enfance, le jour de son anniversaire, Ned Dunstan expérimente le même phénomène traumatique : il se retrouve confronté dans une scène de cauchemar d''une violence hallucinée à un impitoyable meurtrier en noir, qu''il appelle « Mr X ». Lorsqu''il retourne voir sa mère mourante en Illinois, dans la petite ville où il a grandi, Ned apprend enfin la véritable identité de son père et surtout les secrets inavouables concernant sa famille. Des secrets étrangement liés à un certain homme en noir, bien trop familier...

Experience the true nature of terror in this "deliciously imaginative" (San Francisco Chronicle) horror thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub. The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous unstoppable creation of man’s power gone mad. The other is not natural at all. And it makes the first look like child’s play... “Unspeakable horror…has ‘Bestseller’ written all over it.”—Los Angeles Times “Straub’s effects are quite spectacular…I was fairly awed by some of the more nightmarish scenes in Floating Dragon.”—The New York Times

Fuyant le souvenir de la mort tragique de sa fille de huit ans et un compagnon abusif, Julia s''est installée dans une maison ancienne au coeur de Londres. La jeune femme espère y trouver enfin la paix et la sécurité. Mais peu à peu, les lieux montrent leur vrai visage. Suffoquée par une atmosphère écrasante, confrontée à des bruits étranges et d''inquiétantes silhouettes enfantines entrevues en plein jour, Julia se sent menacée de toutes parts et en vient à douter de sa propre raison. Sa seule issue sera peut-être de comprendre de quel drame abominable la maison a été le théâtre vingt ans plus tôt... « Réellement terrifiant. » Chicago Tribune « Un roman qui nous hante, dans tous les sens du terme. » Robert Bloch, auteur de Pyscho

Darrell Schweitzer assembles another massive collection of monstrously fun interviews with the stars of modern horror fiction, including: Joe R. Lansdale Carrie Vaughn Lisa Tuttle Kim Newman Fred Chappell Elizabeth Massie Brian A. Hopkins Harry O. Morris Sephera Giron S.P. Somtow Hugh B. Cave Robert Weinberg Gahan Wilson Ramsey Campbell David J. Schow Graham Joyce Brian Lumley Peter Strau

TOM REQUIEM Clive Barker LITTLE RED''S TANGO Peter Straub HOLOGRAM SKULL COVER Jeff Strand LUX ET VERITAS Thomas F. Monteleone DEVOTION J. F. Gonzalez INN CLEANING Stephen R. Bissette BREATHE MY NAME Christopher Golden MAGDALA AMYGDALA Lucy A. Snyder THE BOHEMIAN OF THE ARBAT Sarah Pinborough JOHNSTOWN Brian Keene ROAD KILL (A Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. story) Kevin J. Anderson JUST BREATHE Tim Lebbon CATFISH GAL BLUES Nancy A. Collins ILLIMITABLE DOMINION Kim Newman INDEPENDENCE DAY Sarah Langan THE GHOST OF LILLIAN BLISS Rio Youers HOTLINE Jack Ketchum THE LIGHT OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS John Skipp WAR STORIES James A. Moore IT''S... Amber Benson THE DREAMCATCHER Nate Kenyon KRISTALL TAG Holly Newstein GHOST TRAP Rick Hautala

Jack Sawyer, who traveled to a parallel universe to save his mother and is now a retired homicide detective, helps a Wisconsin policeman track down a serial killer, who abducts and murders children.

Originally published: New York: Viking: Putnam, 1984.

Peter Straub masterfully weaves horror and suspense into a love story unlike any other: the ballad of Ballard and Sandrine. Ballard and his considerably younger lover Sandrine have been brought together by a shared erotic obsession of the darkest kind. As they travel down a remote part of the Amazon River on a luxurious yacht, they spend their days indulging in their macabre pastime. Through a haze of pain and pleasure, the lovers are witness to a series of increasingly sinister portents, dreams and visions that haunt their claustrophobic and disturbing world. With Peter Straub’s signature, breathtaking twists and an astonishing climax, you’ll never forget The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the most adroit masters of the supernatural thriller” (San Francisco Chronicle) delivers a chilling novel about a man seeking the truth about what happened on a horrifying night on a Midwestern campus in the 1960s. • "Terrifying.... Impossible to put down." —Stephen King On a college campus, a charismatic guru and his young acolytes perform a secret ritual in a local meadow. What happens is a mystery—all that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body and the shattered souls of all who were present. Forty years later, one man seeks to learn about that horrifying night, and to do so he’ll have to force those involved to examine the unspeakable events that have haunted them ever since.

""Donald Duck" is a surreal study of how a family can be changed irrevocably by the decisions of one reckless member"--Publisher website (September 2008)

Als een auteur een personage uit zijn nieuwe boek ontmoet, gaan fantasie en werkelijkheid door elkaar lopen.

WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD • While investigating his nephew’s disappearance, a man discovers a twisted web of secrets that threatens everything he holds dear in this “masterful tale of ultra horror” (Entertainment Weekly) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story. “A nuanced, layered reworking of the haunted house story.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son—beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill—vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark’s inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law’s funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled upon its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.

La historia nos narra la vida de un pequeño llamado Jack. A pesar de su corta edad, cuenta recién con doce años, se ve enfrentado a la muerte de su padre y por desgracia a otra triste circunstancia, su madre enferma gravemente. Con tantos acontecimientos en su contra el muchacho trata de no decaer, pero su ánimo cada día es peor. Sin embargo la vida le depara más sorpresas, las que lo llevarán a efectuar un viaje. Pero esta misión no es tan simple porque deberá ir a tierras desconocidas y lejanas, en las que encontrará la cura para su madre enferma. Llegando allí deberá encontrar un talismán que le asegura un futuro mejor y la posibilidad de salvar a su único ser querido que la vida no le haya arrebatado. El libro se convierte así en una entretenida lectura, llena de seres fantásticos y un mundo totalmente inimaginable.

A collection of seven exquisite tales about living, dying, and the horror that lies in between, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story “Elegant, terrifying, provocative.”—The Washington Post Book World Welcome to a new kind of terror as Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche. Here the master of the macabre is at his absolute best in seven chilling stories that explore the darkest depths of the human mind. “Bunny Is Good Bread” takes us into the mind of a small boy trapped in grotesque circumstances to portray the creation of a serial killer in a manner that compels pity, sorrow, comprehension, and grief—as well as judgement. “Hunger, an Introduction,” narrated by the ghost of a pompous, self-pitying murderer, evokes a profoundly beautiful vision of earthly life, one appreciated far more by the dead than the living. The award-winning novella “Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff,” a masterpiece of black comedy, draws upon Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” to create a revenge tale in which torture is a moral art and the revenger undergoes a transforming, albeit painful, education. The terrain of these extraordinary stories is marked by brutality, heartbreak, despair, wonder, and an unexpected humor that allows empathy to blossom within the most unlikely contexts.

A riveting novel that “combines the intellectual-puzzle mystery with a powerful vein of psycho-thriller suspense” (The Washington Post) and “moves like an express train” (Stephen King), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story. They are dying, one by one. Wealthy, middle-aged women in an exclusive Connecticut suburb. Their murderer remains at large. Nora Chancel, wife of publishing scion Davey Chancel, fears she may be next. After all, her past has branded her a victim. Then Davey tells Nora a surreal story about the Hellfire Club, where years before he met an obsessed fan of Chancel House''s most successful book, Night Journey—a book that has a strange history of its own. Suddenly terror engulfs Nora: She must defend herself against fantastic accusations even as a madman lies in wait. And when he springs, she will embark on a night journey that will put her victimhood to rest forever, dead or alive.

A selection of short fiction--including outstanding early stories, new pieces, and two never-before-published novellas--features "Mrs. God," "The Buffalo Hunter," and other works.

Thriller.

Acclaimed pianist-composer Elliott Denmark returns to his home town to find the town itself torn apart and his own feelings torn between his wife and a woman who exerts a mystical power over him

This ghost story was a classic when it was first released, and its reputation has only grown over the years. Now it has been republished in hardcover, with a suite of handsome full-color, full-page photographs by J.K. Potter, who has given us these haunting compositions that perfectly complement the understated beauty of Peter Straub''s prose. Elegantly typeset and handsomely bound, this new edition is limited to three hundred copies, each one signed by Peter Straub, Thomas Tessier, and J.K. Potter. The book also features a lengthy interview with Straub and a bonus short story.

For more than two decades Peter Straub has engrossed, entertained, and terrified us with his dazzling blend of cool artistry and mad, spine-tingling imagination. With Mr. X, the bestselling author of Ghost Story, The Talisman (with Stephen King), and The Hellfire Club takes us into the darkest dimensions of the human psyche and proves once again that he is without peer in the realm of psychological suspense and horror, a master storyteller whose unique and powerful gifts qualify him to be called the Edgar Allan Poe of our times. Mr. X is Straub''s original and startling take on the theme of the doppelganger. Ned Dunstan''s birthday is fast approaching, and every year on this date, Ned experiences a paralyzing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious and malevolent figure in black whom Ned calls Mr. X. Ned has been drawn back to his hometown, Edgerton, Illinois, by a premonition that his mother, Star, is dying. Before she loosens her hold on life, she imparts to Ned the name of his father, never before disclosed, and warns him that he is in grave danger. Despite her foreboding, Ned''s determination to learn as much as possible about his absent father ignites a series of extraordinary adventures that gradually reveal the heart of both his own identity and that of his entirely fantastic family: He discovers that he is shadowed by an identical twin brother who can pass through doors and otherwise defy the laws of nature; he becomes the lead suspect in three violent deaths; he investigates the secret shadow-world within Edgerton; he learns to "eat time" and remembers the one occasion when he and his sinister brother unitedinto a single being. Finally, at the moment of battle, he must call upon everything he has learned to save his own life. Brimming with the author''s trademark wit, understated eloquence, vibrant characters, and brilliant sense of pace, Mr. X displays Peter Straub at the top of his form.