New Releases by Peter Straub

Il y a vingt ans, Jack a survécu à l''enfer des Territoires. Aujourd''hui, pour l''amour d''une femme et d''un enfant, il va franchir une nouvelle fois la frontière... Une nouvelle édition du roman culte, paru en 2002 chez Robert Laffont, avec une préface inédite de Stephen King et une interview de Peter Straub.

BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed thriller of supernatural horror from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story, Koko, and The Talisman. “Ghastly, hide-your-eyes horror; when Peter Straub turns on all jets, no one in the scream factory can equal him.”—Stephen King BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVEL Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan has a paralyzing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious figure in black whom he calls Mr. X. Now, with his birthday fast approaching, Ned has been drawn back to his hometown of Edgerton, Illinois, by a premonition that his mother is dying. On her deathbed, she imparts to him the name of his long-absent father and warns him that he is in grave danger. Despite her foreboding, he embarks on a search through Edgerton’s past for the truth behind his own identity and that of his entirely fantastic family. But when Ned becomes the lead suspect in three violent deaths, he begins to realize that he is not the only one who has come home. . . .

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

„Doi dintre cei mai importanți scriitori de horror ai lumii și-au propus să scrie împreună un roman fantasy. Rezultatul este Talismanul, care nu este doar o poveste bună despre un copil capabil să înfrunte pericole dintr-o altă lume pentru a-și salva mama, ci și o experiență literară intensă“. Marian Coman, redactor-șef Armada

Peter Straub has created a body of short stories and novellas establishes him as one of the best literary voices in the genres of horror and dark suspense. His list of accomplishments and awards is staggering: In addition to the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association, Life Achievement World Fantasy Award, Grand Master Award from World Horror, Living Legend Award from the International Horror Guild, he has won the Bram Stoker Award nine times, the World Fantasy Award three times, and one British Fantasy Award. He remains a living legend. Volume two features Peter''s novellas. Included in this collection: Blue Rose The Buffalo Hunter Mrs. God Bunny Is Good Bread Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff Pork Pie Hat A Special Place: the Heart of a Dark Matter The Process (is a Process All Its Own)

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

“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.

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

L''eterna lotta tra bene e male rappresentata nel viaggio di un ragazzo in un mondo oscuro e raccapricciante, alla ricerca di un cristallo dai magici poteri.

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.

A graphic interpretation of a best-selling work by the award-winning authors follows the desperate quest of young Jack Sawyer between Earth and a mysterious parallel world called The Territories.

Peter Straub presents four stories that are offshoots of the fictional universe created in his Blue Rose trilogy. Each of the stories stands alone, but together they shine a revelatory light on the novels that inspired them.

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

A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son– fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill–vanishes. His uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. 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 whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.

Les Territoires sont peuplés de chimères, de bonnes fées et de démons. Nul n''y entre, pas même un enfant, sans risquer de perdre sa vie et son âme... Une, plage déserte, quelque part sur la côte Est des Etats-Unis. Jack Sawyer, douze ans, scrute l''horizon, tourmenté... Sa mère se meurt d''un mal inconnu, et jack désespère de pouvoir l''aider. Le vieux Speedy Parker, joueur de blues devenu gardien de parc d''attractions, lui révèle l''existence d''un autre monde, qu''il appelle les Territoires, endroit féerique mais terriblement dangereux, où le ciel est transparent et profond, et les senteurs plus fortes. C''est là que se trouve le Talisman, seul remède qui puisse sauver sa mère. A l''issue de semaines d''épreuves au cœur de l''enfer et du désespoir, Jack saura-t-il résister à la force extraordinaire qui s''emparera alors de lui - et vaincre ses propres démons ?

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.

Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan experiences a paralyzing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious figure in black whom Ned calls Mr. X. Ned has been drawn back to his hometown by a premonition that his mother is dying. Before she dies, she discloses to Ned the name of his father and warns Ned that he is in grave danger. Ned''s determination to learn 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.

"Welcome to another 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 exquisite tales of living, dying, and the terror that lies in between. . . . "AshputtleIsn''t It Romantic? "CHILLING.""SKILLFULLY CONSTRUCTED." "-The New York Times-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The Ghost VillageBunny Is Good Bread Winner of a World Fantasy Award"TERRIFYING." "VERY, VERY SCARY."-"The Washington Post Book "World -"The Philadelphia Inquirer Porkpie HatHunger, An Introduction "DARK TWISTS AND"BRILLIANTLY SUBVERSIVE." DARKER HUMOR."-"Locus "-USA Today "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff Winner of a Bram Stoker Award "[A] TOUR-DE-FORCE . . . [THAT] WILL HAUNT READERS LONG AFTER THEY''VE CLOSED THE COVERS." "-The Denver Post "PETER STRAUB IS AN EXCELLENT WRITER. . . . HE MAKES US FEEL THE TERROR." -"The Philadelphia Inquirer

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 tormented writer unable to exorcise the demons of his past...an all-American town plagued by horrific secrets...a beautiful woman brutally murdered by a twisted killer thought long dead-or by an even more terrifying copycat? In The Throat , Peter Straub''s Blue Rose trilogy blooms into a horrifically chilling, maniacally suspenseful masterwork of terror.

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.

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