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Peter Straub


USA flag (1943 - 2022)

Born in Milwaukee, Peter Straub was the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. In the Night Room and Lost Boy, Lost Girl were winners of the Bram Stoker Award, as was his collection 5 Stories. Straub was the editor of numerous anthologies, including the two-volume The American Fantastic Tale from the Library of America.
 

Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Literary Fiction
 
Series
Talisman (with Stephen King)
   1. The Talisman (1984)
   2. Black House (2001)
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Blue Rose
   1. Koko (1988)
   2. Mystery (1990)
   3. The Throat (1993)
   Blue Rose (1995)
   The Juniper Tree (2010)
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Novels
   Marriages (1973)
   Julia (1975)
     aka Full Circle
   If You could See Me Now (1977)
   Ghost Story (1979)
   Shadowland (1980)
   Floating Dragon (1982)
   The General's Wife (1982)
   Under Venus (1985)
   The Hellfire Club (1996)
   Mr. X (1999)
   Pork Pie Hat (1999)
   Lost Boy Lost Girl (2003)
   In the Night Room (2004)
   A Dark Matter (2009)
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Collections
   Ishmael (poems) (1972)
   Open Air (poems) (1972)
   Houses without Doors (1990)
   Ghosts (1995)
   Magic Terror (1997)
   5 Stories (2008)
   Interior Darkness (2016)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Mrs God (1990)
   A Special Place (2010)
   The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine (2012)
   The Buffalo Hunter (2012)
   Perdido (2015)
   The Process (2017)
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Anthologies edited
   Poe's Children (2008)
   American Fantastic Tales (2009)
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Anthology series
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Series contributed to
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Graphic Novels show
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 
Peter Straub recommends
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The Merry Dredgers (2023)
Jeremy C Shipp
"Shipp's boldness, daring, originability, and sheer smarts make them one of the most vital younger writers who have colocized horror literature in the past decade."
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Dead Sky (2019)
(Sky, book 2)
Weston Ochse
"A wised-up, clued-in, completely trustworthy writer of high-action fiction."
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Curious Toys (2019)
Elizabeth Hand
"This book contains a rare kind of perfection: Elizabeth Hand's rough, observant magic draws into its circle great historical accuracy, a cross-dressing central protagonist, a wonderfully tender portrait of the great Outsider Artist Henry Darger, a vibrant thriller plot, reflections on gender and its place in civic order, a helpful Ben Hecht, and one of the greatest climactic drop-the-mic moments I've ever read -- and does all this while patiently setting into place the warm emotional armatures that make Curious Toys so moving."

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Anthologies containing stories by Peter Straub
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Voices in the Dark (2022)
edited by
Alain Davis, Steve Dillon and Eugene Johnson

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Awards
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1981) : Shadowland
British Fantasy Society Best Novel winner (1984) : Floating Dragon
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1985) : The Talisman
Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (1989) : The Juniper Tree [short story]
World Fantasy Best Novel winner (1989) : Koko
Bram Stoker Best Collection nominee (1991) : Houses without Doors
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1991) : Houses without Doors
World Fantasy Best Novella winner (1993) : The Ghost Village
Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (1994) : The Throat
World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1994) : The Throat
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1995) : Fee
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1996) : The Hellfire Club
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (1997) : The Hellfire Club
Bram Stoker Best Novellette winner (1999) : Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff
British Fantasy Society Best Short Story nominee (1999) : Pork Pie Hat [short story]
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1999) : Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff
Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (2000) : Mr. X
Bram Stoker Best Collection winner (2001) : Magic Terror
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (2001) : Magic Terror
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (2002) : Black House
Bram Stoker Best Novel winner (2004) : In the Night Room
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (2004) : Lost Boy Lost Girl


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