New Releases by Peter Straub

In his latest soul-chilling novel, bestselling author Peter Straub tells of a famous children’s book author who, in the wake of a grotesque accident, realizes that the most basic facts of her existence, including her existence itself, have come into question. Willy Patrick, the respected author of the award-winning young-adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is losing her mind–again. One day, she is drawn helplessly into the parking lot of a warehouse. She knows somehow that her daughter, Holly, is being held in the building, and she has an overwhelming need to rescue her. But what Willy knows is impossible, for her daughter is dead. On the same day, author Timothy Underhill, who has been struggling with a new book about a troubled young woman, is confronted with the ghost of his nine-year-old sister, April. Soon after, he begins to receive eerie, fragmented e-mails that he finally realizes are from people he knew in his youth–people now dead. Like his sister, they want urgently to tell him something. When Willy and Timothy meet, the frightening parallels between Willy’s tragic loss and the story in Tim’s manuscript suggest that they must join forces to confront the evils surrounding them.

Die Karriere von William Standish scheint so gleichförmig wie langweilig zu verlaufen. Er hat einen Lehrstuhl an einem unbedeutenden amerikanischen Provinz-College, seine Frau ist nach einer Abtreibung wieder schwanger, und er versucht seinen Doktortitel zu machen. Da bietet sich ihm die Gelegenheit in Esswood House, England, die Nachlaßpapiere der Schriftstellerin Isobel Standish, seiner Stiefgroßmutter, zu studieren. Doch seine Forschungen werden in dem merkwürdigen Haus bald von etwas Schrecklichem gestört. Peter Straub gehört neben Stephen King und Dan Simmons zu den ganz großen Horrorautoren. Für seine Werke - dazu zählen so bedeutende Romane wie Geisterstunde, Schattenland, Der Hauch des Drachen oder Koko - wurde er mit dem British Fantasy Award, dem Bram Stoker Award und dem World Fantasy Award ausgezeichnet. Esswood House ist die zum Roman ausgearbeitete Novelle Mrs. God.

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.

Forts von: äDer Talismanä. - Eine abscheuliche Mordserie an Kindern erschüttert die Provinzstadt French Landing im US-Staat Wisconsin. Jack Sawyer, ein jung pensionierter Polizeileutnant aus Los Angeles, ahnt, dass der Killer, genannt äFishermanä nur ein Werkzeug übernatürlicher Mächte ist.

The classic collaboration by the masters of the macabre--and its long-awaited sequel--are together in this terrifying deluxe box set. Features paperback copies of the New York Times bestsellers The Talisman and Black House. Original.

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

"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

To coincide with the publication of Stephen King and Peter Straub''s extraordinary new thriller, BLACK HOUSE, here is the story that started it all. On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America--and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother''s life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . .

Covering every aspect of Peter Straub''s writing career, the new edition of this bibliography also includes an exclusive interview with Straub conducted by Stanley Wiater.

Nora and Davey Chancel live in an affluent Connecticut town that has attracted national attention as the site of four recent murders. When the Chancels go to the police station to identify an acquaintance thought to be the fifth victim, Nora is kidnapped at gunpoint by the menacing Dick Hart, who has just been arrested for the murders. Dart is an extremely clever, intuitive serial killer. During her ordeal, Nora grows in stature and courage, learning to stay alive by feeding Dart''s ego and feigning the role of accomplice.

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 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

The bestselling author of "Ghost Story" returns to the supernatural genre for the first time in over a decade. Over the week culminating in his 35th birthday, Ned Dunstan endures a series of extraordinary events which reveal the long-withheld secret of his identity.