Peter Straub

Nella dormiente cittadina di Milburn, New York, quattro anziani si riuniscono per raccontarsi storie, alcune vere, altre inventate, l’importante è che siano...

Tim Underhill, ora acclamato romanziere, torna nella sua città natale, Millhaven, Illinois, dopo aver ricevuto una telefonata da John Ransom, un vecchio...

Solo quattro uomini sanno chi è Koko. E devono fermarlo. Sono trascorsi ormai molti anni dalla fine della guerra in Vietnam quando quattro reduci...

Quando era più piccolo, Tom Pasmore ha quasi perso la vita in un incidente d'auto sull'isola di Mill Walk...

Ogni anno, nel giorno del suo compleanno, Ned Dunstan è perseguitato da visioni di orrore commesse da una figura selvaggia che chiama "Mr. X"...

The iconic, “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) collaboration between bestselling authors Stephen King and Peter Straub—an epic #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy thriller about a young boy’s quest to save his mother’s life. Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most...

A collection of seven exquisite tales about living, dying, and the horror that lies in between, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story “Elegant, terrifying, provocative.”—The Washington Post Book World Welcome to a new kind of terror as Peter Straub leads us into the...

In a house in London a woman starts a new life, trying to put tragedy behind her. Then a pretty blonde child runs into view, bringing with her an inexplicable suggestion of evil. Once Julia Lofting had a husband and a daughter. But everything has changed since she bolted from her marriage, in...

From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre. Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New Wave horror...

One summer night, a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to Arden, Wisconsin, in search of everything he has lost. But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he had...

Two monstrous evils. The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous, unstoppable creation of man's power gone mad. The other is not natural at all....

One summer night a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry....

The first three volumes of The Best Horror of the Year have been widely praised for their quality, variety, and comprehensiveness....

WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD After a grotesque accident, a famous author discovers that her reality is not what it seems in this “imaginative, intricate, and electrifying” (Associated Press) horror novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story. “A powerful and...

Willy Patrick, the author of the Caldecott-winning young-adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is loosing her mind again. Two weeks before her second marriage, on her way home one day, Willy is drawn into the parking lot of a warehouse. Knowing that her daughter Holly is being held in that...

Peter Straub masterfully weaves horror and suspense into a love story unlike any other: the ballad of Ballard and Sandrine. Ballard and his considerably younger lover Sandrine have been brought together by a shared erotic obsession of the darkest kind. As they travel down a remote part of...

The incomparable master of horror and suspense returns with a powerful, brilliantly terrifying novel that redefines the genre in original and unexpected ways. The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his...