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Peter Straub is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, most recently A Dark Matter.  He has won the Bram Stoker Award for his novels, Lost Boy Lost Girl and In the Night Room, as well as for his recent collection, 5 Stories.  Straub was the editor of the two-volume Library of American anthology The American Fantastic Tale.  He lives in New York City.
 
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The Talisman: Volume 1: The Road of Trials

Written by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Adapted by Robin Furth
Illustrated by Tony Shasteen and Nei Ruffino

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Del Rey
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $25.00

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Dracula

Written by Bram Stoker
Introduction by Peter Straub

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $10.95

Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker’s Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author’s mother, who wrote her son: “It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley’s Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror.”

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The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine
An eShort
Written by Peter Straub

Format: eBook, 64 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 17, 2012
Price: $2.99

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A Dark Matter

Written by Peter Straub

Format: Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $7.99

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. Forty years later, one man seeks to learn... Read more >

A Dark Matter

Written by Peter Straub

Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $7.99

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A Dark Matter

Written by Peter Straub

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: February 9, 2010
Price: $27.00

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The Hellfire Club

Written by Peter Straub

Format: Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: June 29, 1997
Price: $7.99

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The Hellfire Club

Written by Peter Straub

Format: eBook
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $7.99

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In the Night Room
A Novel
Written by Peter Straub

Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $7.99

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In the Night Room

Written by Peter Straub

Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $7.99

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Koko

Written by Peter Straub

Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $15.00

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Koko

Written by Peter Straub

Format: eBook, 576 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 6, 2011
Price: $11.99

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Lost Boy Lost Girl
A Novel
Written by Peter Straub

Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $7.99

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lost boy lost girl
A Novel
Written by Peter Straub

Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: October 7, 2003
Price: $7.99

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Magic Terror

Written by Peter Straub

Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: August 28, 2001
Price: $7.99

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Magic Terror
7 Tales
Written by Peter Straub

Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: August 3, 2000
Price: $7.99

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Mr. X

Written by Peter Straub

Format: Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $7.99

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Mr. X

Written by Peter Straub

Format: eBook, 544 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: July 21, 2010
Price: $7.99

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Mystery

Written by Peter Straub

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $18.00

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Mystery

Written by Peter Straub

Format: eBook, 560 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 1, 2010
Price: $9.99

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Poe's Children
The New Horror
Written by Peter Straub

Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

Peter Straub—bestselling author and 8-time Bram Stoker Award winner—has gathered here 16 bone-chilling, nail-biting, frightfully imaginative stories that represent the best of contemporary horror writing.

Dan Chaon “The Bees”
Elizabeth Hand “Cleopatra Brimstone”
Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem “The Man on the Ceiling”
M. John... Read more >

Poe's Children
The New Horror: An Anthology
Written by Peter Straub

Format: eBook, 592 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $11.99

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The Throat
Blue Rose Trilogy (3)
Written by Peter Straub

Format: Trade Paperback, 704 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 10, 2010
Price: $15.00

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The Throat
Blue Rose Trilogy (3)
Written by Peter Straub

Format: eBook, 704 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 9, 2011
Price: $9.99

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The Island of Dr. Moreau

Written by H.G. Wells
Foreword by Peter Straub

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: May 14, 2002
Price: $8.95

Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin’s theory of evolution, which H. G. Wells stoutly believed. The story centers on the depraved Dr. Moreau, who conducts unspeakable animal experiments on a remote... Read more >