Best Peter Straub Books

The Talisman

The Talisman • Book 1

by Stephen King, Peter Straub

King and Straub send a twelve-year-old boy flipping between dimensions—ours and the medieval Territories—on a quest for a mystical talisman that's his mother's only hope for survival.

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King and Straub send a twelve-year-old boy flipping between dimensions—ours and the medieval Territories—on a quest for a mystical talisman that's his mother's only hope for survival.

Ghost Story

by Peter Straub

Members of the Chowder Society face a vengeful spirit connected to their shared guilty secret from fifty years past. Straub crafts a sprawling horror epic that builds from small-town atmosphere to supernatural terror.

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Members of the Chowder Society face a vengeful spirit connected to their shared guilty secret from fifty years past. Straub crafts a sprawling horror epic that builds from small-town atmosphere to supernatural terror.

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010

Kyle Murchison Booth • Book 4

by Paula Guran, Kelley Armstrong, Holly Black, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Stewart O'Nan, Sarah Pinborough, Norman Prentiss, Barbara Roden, Lucius Shepard, Peter Straub, Michael Shea, Kelly Link, Ekaterina Sedia, Catherynne M. Valente, Gerard Houarner, Gemma Files, Kurt Dinan, Elizabeth Bear, Roby Davies, Maura McHugh, Dale Bailey, Deborah Biancotti, Gary McMahon, Holly Phillips, John Mantooth, Marc Laidlaw, Margo Lanagan, Michael Marshall Smith, Nadia Bulkin, Nathan Ballingrud, Paul Tremblay, Peter Atkins, Sarah Monette, Seth Fried, Stephen Graham Jones, Steve Duffy, Steve Rasnic Tem, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Langan

Darkness lurks everywhere — in small-town picnics, behind dumpsters where harpies dwell, and in The Nowhere where lost things go — across stories that find horror in the mundane.

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Darkness lurks everywhere — in small-town picnics, behind dumpsters where harpies dwell, and in The Nowhere where lost things go — across stories that find horror in the mundane.

A Dark Matter

by Peter Straub

Forty years after Spenser Mallon's cult ritual destroyed young lives in a Wisconsin meadow, the survivors still bear the scars—and now the charismatic predator may be back to finish what he started.

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Forty years after Spenser Mallon's cult ritual destroyed young lives in a Wisconsin meadow, the survivors still bear the scars—and now the charismatic predator may be back to finish what he started.

The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine

by Peter Straub

Two lovers, divided by decades but united by dark desires, spend twenty-five years trapped together on a yacht that never stops moving down the Amazon River.

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Two lovers, divided by decades but united by dark desires, spend twenty-five years trapped together on a yacht that never stops moving down the Amazon River.