VJ Books presents Peter Straub!

 

Straub earned an honors B.A. in English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1965, and an MA at Columbia University a year later. He briefly taught English at his alma mater, now known as the University School of Milwaukee, then moved to Dublin, Ireland, in 1969 to work on a Ph.D., and to start writing professionally.

 

Straub dabbled in the supernatural for the first time with Julia (1975). He then wrote If You Could See Me Now (1977), and came to widespread public attention with his fifth novel, Ghost Story (1979), which was a critical success.  Several horror novels followed, with growing success, including The Talisman and Black House, two fantasy-horror collaborations with Straub's long-time friend and fellow author Stephen King.  Straub re-emerged in 1988 with Koko, a nonsupernatural (though horrific) Vietnam novel. Koko was followed in the early '90s by the related novels Mystery and The Throat, which together with Koko make up the "Blue Rose Trilogy".

 

The ambitious mainstream thriller The Hellfire Club was published in 1996; the novel applied the lessons learned in the Blue Rose period to a more overtly gothic plot. Mr. X followed in 1999 with a doppelgänger theme. In 2001, Straub and King reteamed for Black House, a loose sequel to The Talisman tying that book in with King's Dark Tower Series. In 2003, Straub's novels Lost Boy Lost Girl were published and were then followed by the related In the Night Room (2004). Both of these novels won Stoker awards.  February 2010 saw the release of his latest thriller, A Dark Matter.

 

 

 

Peter Straub Bibliography

Talisman Series (with Stephen King)
The Talisman (1984)
Black House (2001)
The Talisman and Black House (omnibus) (2003)

Blue Rose Series
Koko (1988)
Mystery (1989)
The Throat (1993)
Blue Rose (1995)
The Juniper Tree: And Other Blue Rose Stories (2010)

Criminal Records
Pork Pie Hat (1999)

Other Novels
Marriages (1973)
Julia (1975) aka Full Circle
If You could See Me Now (1977)
Ghost Story (1979)
Shadowland (1980)
The General's Wife (1982)
Floating Dragon (1983)
Under Venus (1984)
Mrs God (1990)
The Hellfire Club (1996)
Mr. X (1999)
Lost Boy Lost Girl (2003)
In the Night Room (2004)
A Dark Matter (2009)

Omnibus
Wild Animals (1984)

Collections
Ishmael (poems) (1972)
Open Air (poems) (1972)
Houses without Doors (1990)
Ghosts (1995)
Magic Terror (1997)
5 Stories (2008)

Graphic Novels
Ashputtle (2006)
The Green Woman (2010) (with Michael Easton)
The Talisman: Vol. 1: The Road of Trials (2010) (with Stephen King)

Novellas
A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter (2010)

Anthology series
Conjunctions (with Bradford Morrow)
The New Wave Fabulists (2002)

Anthologies edited
Peter Straub's Ghosts (1995)
Poe's Children: The New Horror (2008)
American Fantastic Tales (2009)

Non fiction
The WaveDancer Benefit (2002) (with Pat Conroy, John Grisham, Stephen King)
Sides (2006)

Anthologies containing stories by Peter Straub
Cutting Edge (1986)
Prime Evil (1988)
Best New Horror 2 (1991)
The New Gothic: A Collection of Contemporary Gothic Fiction (1991)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
Shadows of Fear (1992)
Best New Horror 4 (1993)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
Borderlands 4 (1994)
The Giant Book of Terror (1994)
The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors (1995)
Dark Terrors (1995)
Great Writers and Kids Write Spooky Stories (1995)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
Dark Terrors 2 (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twelfth Annual Collection (1999)
Dark Terrors 5 (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eleven (2000)

Short stories
Blue Rose (1985)        
The Juniper Tree (1988) 
A Short Guide to the City (1990)        
The Kingdom of Heaven (1991)        
The Ghost Village (1992) 
Fee (1994)     
In Transit (1995) (with Benjamin Straub)        
Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff (1998)       
World Fantasy (nominee)
Pork Pie Hat (1999) 
The Geezers (2000)        
Hunger: An Introduction