There are countless Peter Straub courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- Ghost Story (2016)
- The Throat: Blue Rose Trilogy (3) (2010)
- The Talisman: A Novel (2018)
- The Hellfire Club (1997)
- Black House: A Novel (2018)
- In the Night Room: A Novel (2006)
- Koko (Blue Rose Trilogy) (2009)
- Interior Darkness: Selected Stories (2017)
- A Dark Matter (2011)
- American Gods: A Novel (2017)
- Mystery (Blue Rose Trilogy) (2010)
- Gilchrist: A Novel (2017)
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Ghost Story (2016)
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
The Throat: Blue Rose Trilogy (3) (2010)
Tim Underhill, now an acclaimed novelist, travels back to his hometown of Millhaven, Illinois after he gets a call from John Ransom, an old army buddy. Ransom believes there’s a copycat killer on the loose, mimicking the Blue Rose murders from decades earlier—he thinks his wife could be a potential victim. Underhill seeks out his old friend Tom Pasmore, an aging hermit who has attained minor celebrity as an expert sleuth, to help him investigate. They…
The Talisman: A Novel (2018)
The iconic, “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) collaboration between bestselling authors Stephen King and Peter Straub—an epic thriller about a young boy’s quest to save his mother’s life.Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman—the only thing that can save Jack’s dying mother.
The Hellfire Club (1997)
"Surprising twists [and a] wildly inventive plot."–The New York TimesThey 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 . . .
Black House: A Novel (2018)
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.
In the Night Room: A Novel (2006)
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.
Koko (Blue Rose Trilogy) (2009)
Bestselling author Peter Straub’s is a gripping psychological thriller in which horror and paranoia are indistinguishable from reality. . Only four men knew what it meant. Now they must stop it. They were Vietnam vets-a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. Very different from each other, they are nonetheless linked by a shared history and a single shattering secret.
Interior Darkness: Selected Stories (2017)
No one and no place is safe from the darkness that he reveals. In “Blue Rose,” an adolescent sociopath inflicts secret violence on his younger brother; in “Mr Clubb and Mr.
A Dark Matter (2011)
On a Midwestern campus in the 1960s, 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.
American Gods: A Novel (2017)
Now a STARZ® Original Series produced by FremantleMedia North America starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, and Pablo Schreiber.Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life.
Mystery (Blue Rose Trilogy) (2010)
MYSTERY. Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident. During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn’t. Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death. When a new murder disrupts their world of wealth, power, and pleasure, the two must form an unlikely partnership to confront demons fr…
Gilchrist: A Novel (2017)
Two years after losing their infant son to a tragic accident, Peter Martell, a novelist with a peculiar knack for finding lost things, and his wife, Sylvia, are devastated to learn they may no longer be able to have children. In need of a fresh start, and compelled by strange dreams, the couple decide to rent a lake house in the idyllic town of Gilchrist, Massachusetts, a place where bad things might just happen for a reason.
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Brechtian Cinemas: Montage and Theatricality in Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Peter Watkins, and Lars Von Trier
Author(s): Nenad Jovanovic
ID: 1632048, Publisher: State University of New York Press, Year: 2017, Size: 11 Mb, Format: pdf
The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub
Author(s): John C. Tibbetts
ID: 3596892, Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Year: 2016, Size: 7 Mb, Format: epub
Sides
Author(s): Peter Straub
ID: 3434680, Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications, Year: 2011, Size: 311 Kb, Format: epub
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