Peter Straub

On a brisk autumn day, a 13-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park...

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....

In his latest soul-chilling novel, best-selling author Peter Straub tells of a famous children's book author who, in the wake of a grotesque accident, realizes that....

Willy Patrick, the author of the Caldecott-winning young-adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is losing her mind again....

With Magic Terror Peter Straub, best selling author of Ghost Story and The Talisman (with Stephen King), has written one of the most imaginatively unsettling...

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....

From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from 25 writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre....

Peter Straub masterfully weaves horror and suspense into a love story unlike any other: The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine....

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

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....

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....