Peter Straub Books In Order
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Koko | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mystery | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Throat | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Criminal Records Books
Publication Order of Talisman Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Marriages | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Julia / Full Circle | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
If You Could See Me Now | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost Story | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadowland | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Floating Dragon | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The General's Wife | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under Venus | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hellfire Club | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. X | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lost Boy Lost Girl | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In The Night Room | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Skylark | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Dark Matter | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Skylark is an earlier, much longer version of A Dark Matter. |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Mrs. God | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ghost Village | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fee | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Special Place | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Buffalo Hunter | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Perdido | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Process (is a Process All Its Own) | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Ishmael | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Open Air | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Leeson Park and Belsize Square | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Houses Without Doors | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Horror Writers Association Presents Peter Straub's Ghosts | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Magic Terror | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Blue Book of Rose Stories | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
5 Stories | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Interior Darkness | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
The Talisman: Road of Trials | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Green Woman | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Conjunctions Books
Conjunctions #1 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #2 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #3 | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #4 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #5 | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #6 | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #7 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #8 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #9 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #10 | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #11 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #12 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #13 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #14 | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #15 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #16 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #17 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #18 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #19 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #20 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #21 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #22 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #23 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #24 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #25: The New American Theater | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #26 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #27 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #28 | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #29: Tributes | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #30 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #31: Radical Shadows | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #32 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #33 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #34: American Fiction | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #35: American Poetry | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #36: Dark Laughter | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #37: Twentieth Anniversary Issue | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #38: Rejoicing Revoicing | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #40 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #41: Two Kingdoms | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #42: Cinema Lingua | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #43: Beyond Arcadia | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #44: An Anatomy of Roads | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #45: Secret Lives of Children | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #46: Selected Subversions | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #47 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #48: Faces of Desire | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #49: A Writers' Aviary | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #50 | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #51: The Death Issue | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #52: Betwixt the Between | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #53: Not Even Past, Hybrid Histories | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #54: Shadow Selves | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #55: Urban Arias | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #56: Terra Incognita | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #57: Kin | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #58: Riveted | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #59: Colloquy | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #60: In Absentia | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #61: A Menagerie | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #62: Exile | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #63: Speaking Volumes | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #64: Natural Causes | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #65: Sleights of Hand | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #67: Other Aliens | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #68: Inside Out | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #70: Sanctuary | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #71: A Cabinet of Curiosity | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #72: Nocturnals | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #73: Earth Elegies | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #74: Grendel’s Kin - The Monsters Issue | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Picador Book of the New Gothic | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 2 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 4 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Giant Book of Terror | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Thorn, White Rose | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 2 | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder on the Run | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 5 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
October Dreams | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Opening Shots, Vol. II | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wavedancer Benefit: A Tribute to Frank Muller | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Poe's Children | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shivers VI | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hint Fiction | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Happily Ever After | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rage Against the Night | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
xo Orpheus | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mister October, Volume II - An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Turn Down the Lights | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #26 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Monstrous | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beauty of Death | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Detours | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2 | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mythic Journeys: Retold Myths and Legends | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Screams: Volume Three | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Voices in the Dark | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Peter Straub was a famous writer of terror fiction. He was also a poet. He had obtained various awards like the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild. He was born in Milwaukee, Wiscosin on March 2nd, 1943 He sadly passed on September 4th, 2022.
His father was a salesman and his mother was a nurse. His dad wanted him to be a sportsman whereas his mom wanted him to become a physician. However, Peter Straub’s passion was to read and write. He started showing his interest in story telling when he was in kindergarten. He would teach himself how to read by cramming his children’s newspaper and rehearsing them again and again to the other children of his locality. He repeated this until he could distinguish the words. By the time he started his first grade, he could go through the library looking for bandit, detective and scandalous books. Before long, he had become popular in his neighborhood as a top storyteller.
During his first grade he was almost killed to death when he clashed with a vehicle. Most of his bones were fractured and he needed corrective surgeries missing one year of school. He spent sometimes on a wheelchair. He started writing horror novels after three decades as he was immune to nightmares through the bad experience he encountered as a child. He was immersed into books than ever before. In spite of his childhood accident encounter, he was still social. He discovered he can write humorous works of fiction. This became the turning point of his life. He got a scholarship at Milwaukee Country Day School where he found favor in the teachers, constantly maintaining top grades. He went to the University of Wisconsin .He successfully graduated with an honors degree in English. After one year he got a MA in Columbia. He married Susan, got an English teaching job at his previous school which is currently known as University school of Milwaukee. He became interested in poetry particularly that one for John Ashbery and wrote a replication of them. After three years, Peter Straub discreetly went to Dublin, Ireland in 1969 to pursue a PhD so that he could take writing as an important profession.
He published verses in the poetry category. He worked with Thomas Tessier who was a poem writer and produced two poet books, Ishamel and Open air. From Dublin he moved to London in 1972.He could turn his old fears into writings. He also used the idea of the horror movies that he watched which made his literature to improve. He and his wife, Susan purchased a home on Hillfield Avenue where they got their first child, Benjamin. It was during that moment when the novel, Ghost Story was written. Peter Straub returned to America in 1979.They begot a daughter, Emma Straub. He still maintains vital alliance with writers such as Ann Lauterbach and other bop singers. He is an affiliate of PEN and HWA. Emma is becoming a successful novelist and Ben is an agent in human-dynamo film. Other movies that Straub has produced are the Full Circle and Lovercraft. He has also been nominated at James Tiptree Award.
The Ghost story is a horror fiction which involves the darkest dread and nightmares. It is a story of supernatural settling of scores. The four men named as Lewis Benedikt, John Jaffrey, Edward Wanderly, and Ricky Hawthorne unintentionally murder a woman named Eva Galli. They are terrified and decide to conceal the death. They put the body in a rented vehicle and shove it into a neighboring lake. As the vehicle submerges in the water they see a scene that troubles them for the rest of their lives. It looks as if Eva is alive because they can see her image through the rear. Frightened, they swear to keep the death undisclosed and to continue with their business. Fifty years later the men have advanced in age. They reside in Milburn, wealthy and comfortable. They join a team known as the Chowder Society which gathers often to exchange ghost tales. The four men refrain from speaking about Eva’s story. Sadly, Wanderly dies out of panic in a cocktail that is held in respect of a performer named Anne Veronica. The other members encounter a sequence of visionary nightmares in which most of them pass away.
Not allowing themselves to admit that Eva has come back to haunt them, they summon for Ed’s nephew, Don Wanderly. Don is a terror novel writer .When he arrives in Milburn, it appears to propel a sign to the evil which jeopardizes the group leading to the death of two more affiliates. The survivors team up with Don and Barnes, whose mom was murdered by Eva and her gofers. Jointly, the team labors to search and demolish their adversaries. The Ghost story helps Straub to expand the horror boundaries. It stands as an honor to writers like Henry James and many more. It is unclear if Eva could live without her victims’ conviction to keep her going.
Another fantastic novel from Peter Sraub is the Shadowland. It is scary, terrorizing full of fiction that makes the reader never want to stop perusing. The characters are consistently asking questions that only get feedback towards the end of the book. Readers are filled with eagerness wondering what the horrible thing will be. You will encounter ghostly homes, discreet tunnels, magic and imaginations and still keep you entertained. These tales are a good assessment to the brain at the same time very entertaining. This book is about a tale of a property named Shadowland, owned by an intoxicated retired conjurer, who is an uncle to Del. The boys become wary of Del’s uncle wonder stories and magic surrounding shadowland. The boys discover a lot more when they spend the summer with their uncle. Their trip from the school to shadowland, their missions there and the results of their ritual of passage has a good terrorizing effect. Peter Straub continues to delve into the idea that phantoms finally adopt the souls of those who observe them.
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Sadly passed away September 2022