New Releases by Peter Straub

„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

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

“Superstar editor Datlow makes no missteps...." —Publishers Weekly Take a terrifying journey with literary masters of suspense, including Peter Straub, Kim Newman, and Caitlín R. Kiernan, visiting a place where the other is somehow one of us. These electrifying tales redefine monsters from mere things that go bump in the night to inexplicable, deadly reflections of our day-to-day lives. Whether it''s a seemingly devoted teacher, an obsessive devotee of swans, or a diner full of evil creatures simply seeking oblivion, the monstrous is always there—and much closer than it appears.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub’s classic tale of horror, secrets, and the dangerous ghosts of the past... What was the worst thing you’ve ever done? In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories—some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives. But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever...

“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.

Peter Straub, Jack Ketchum, Darynda Jones, Jacquelyn Frank, and Brian Hodge contribute five gloomy, disturbing tales of madness and horror to Dark Screams: Volume Three, edited by Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar of the celebrated Cemetery Dance Publications. THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF FREDDIE PROTHERO by Peter Straub A mere child yet a precocious writer, young Freddie records a series of terrifying encounters with an inhuman being that haunts his life . . . and seems to predict his death. GROUP OF THIRTY by Jack Ketchum When an award-winning horror writer on the downward slope of a long career receives an invitation to address the Essex County Science Fiction Group, he figures he’s got nothing to lose. He couldn’t be more wrong. NANCY by Darynda Jones Though she’s adopted by the cool kids, the new girl at Renfield High School is most drawn to Nancy Wilhoit, who claims to be haunted. But it soon becomes apparent that poltergeists—and people—are seldom what they seem. I LOVE YOU, CHARLIE PEARSON by Jacquelyn Frank Charlie Pearson has a crush on Stacey Wheeler. She has no idea. Charlie will make Stacey see that he loves her, and that she loves him—even if he has to kill her to make her say it. THE LONE AND LEVEL SANDS STRETCH FAR AWAY by Brian Hodge When Marni moves in next door, the stale marriage of Tara and Aidan gets a jolt of adrenaline. Whether it’s tonic or toxic is another matter. Praise for Dark Screams: Volume Three “Well worth picking up and reading . . . If you have not tried the series yet, do yourself a favor and grab a copy of any (or all) of the books for yourself.”—Examiner.com “Freeman and Chizmar have brought their A-game to Dark Screams: Volume Three. If you pick just one installment in this series to read, pick this one.”—LitReactor “Another winner.”—HorrorTalk “A gathering of perfect little bites of fiction . . . As you finish one story you’ll definitely be ready to move on to the next one.”—Sweet Southern Home “Every story has something to offer for horror fans. They’re creepy, thought-provoking, scary and quick reads.”—The Reader’s Hollow “[Horror] needs to hit you in the sweet spot where the amygdala and the cerebrum whisper to each other, where intellect and emotion intertwine, and all of these stories do that, and they do it well.”—Bibliotica “A fun, frightful read . . . If the editors keep raising the bar, I’ll be back again and again.”—Atomic Fangirl

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.

Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer embarks on an epic quest--a walk from the seacoast of New Hampshire to the California coast--to find the talisman that will save his dying mother''s life. Jack''s journey takes him into the Territories, a parallel medieval universe, where most people from his own universe have analogs called "twinners." The queen of the Territories, Jack''s mother''s twinner, is also dying.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post). Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories. When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades ago by a madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed “the Fishman,” and Jack’s buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help the inexperienced force find him. But are these new killings merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack’s inexplicable waking dreams—if that is what they are—of robins’ eggs and red feathers? It’s almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As this cryptic message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted tract of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.

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.

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. . . .

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.

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 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 ?

Die perfekte Mischung aus Fantasy und Horror. Im Vorläufer zu King/Straubs Bestseller ''Das Schwarze Haus'' begibt sich der zwölfjährige Jack Sawyer auf eine weite, abenteuerliche Reise, in der Idylle und Entsetzen nahe beieinander liegen. Meisterregisseur Steven Spielberg hat sich die Verfilmungsrechte an ''Der Talisman'' für ''DreamWorks'' gesichert. Stephen King, 1947 in Portland, Maine, geboren, ist einer der erfolgreichsten amerikanischen Schriftsteller. Schon als Student veröffentlichte er Kurzgeschichten, sein erster Romanerfolg, ''Carrie'', erlaubte ihm, sich nur noch dem Schreiben zu widmen. Seitdem hat er weltweit 400 Millionen Bücher in mehr als 40 Sprachen verkauft. Im November 2003 erhielt er den Sonderpreis der National Book Foundation für sein Lebenswerk.

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 retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the rural Wisconsin hamlet of Tamarack, Jack Sawyer is called in to assist the local police chief in solving a gruesome series of murders that causes Jack to experience inexplicable waking nightmares and draw him back to the Territories and an encounter with his own hidden past.

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

An attempt to summon and imprison Death, results, instead, in the capture of Morpheus, the Sandman, who must regain the tools of his powers.

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

The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors - one is natural, a man gone insane. The other makes the first look like child''s play.