Peter Straub

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story--and the master of American horror--tells the terrifying story of a woman who, in her desperation to flee the past, encounters an inexplicable aura of evil. Julia's first purchase upon leaving her husband is a large, old-fashioned house in Kensington, where she plans to live by herself, well away from her soon-to-be-ex and the home where their young daughter died. She feels a peculiar affinity for the house right away, a feeling that deepens with each glimpse of a mysterious little girl--blond, like her daughter--in the neighborhood, and even in her dreams But the little girl and the big house have an inexplicable aura of evil. And Julia quickly discovers that escaping her past is not as simple as turning a key.

...Vnov i vnovdvenadtsatiletnij Dzhek Sojer i ego mat v speshke pereezzhajut iz odnogo goroda v drugoj, begut, smenjaja oteli i starajas ne ostavljat sledov. Ot kogo oni prjachutsja? Kto - ili chto - ikh presleduet? Etogo Dzhek ne znaet, no on absoljutno uveren: ego materi grozit smertelnaja opasnost i tolko on mozhet spasti ee. No dlja etogo emu pridetsja perestupit chertu - popast v druguju realnost, gde obitajut sily Tmy, uzhe gotovye nanesti udar..."Talisman" - odno iz samykh jarkikh proizvedenij Stivena Kinga - v novom perevode i vpervye bez sokraschenij! Chitajte "Chernyj dom" - prodolzhenie romana "Talisman".

The iconic and terrifying collaboration from two of the greatest storytellers of our time...

Darkness surrounds us. We can find darkness anywhere: in a strange green stone etched with mysterious symbols; at a small town's annual picnic; in a ghostly house that is easy to enter but not so easy to leave; behind the dumpster in the alley where a harpy lives; in The Nowhere, a place where car keys, toys, people disappear to; among Polar explorers; and, most definitely, within ourselves. Darkness flies from mysterious crates; surrounds children whose nightlights have vanished; and flickers between us at the movie theater. Darkness crawls from the past and is waiting in our future; and there's always a chance that Halloween really is a door opening directly into endless shadow. Welcome to the dark. You may never want to leave.This inaugural volume of the year's best dark fantasy and horror features more than 500 pages of dark tales from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique. Chosen from a variety of sources, these stories are as eclectic and varied as the genre itself.

80-luvun hittijärkäle kuuluu joka kauhufanin yleissivistykseen! Stephen Kingin ja Peter Straubin vauhdikas fantasiateos, jonka samaistuttava päähenkilö joutuu tekemään vaikeita valintoja kahden maailman välissä. Eeppistä fantasiaa, myyttistä kauhua ja äärimmilleen viritettyä jännitystä! 12-vuotias Jack Sawyer ja hänen vakavasti sairas äitinsä Lily ovat paossa miestä, joka on vastuussa Jackin isän kuolemasta. Liikuskellessaan yksin autiolla lomaseudulla Jack tutustuu vanhaan huvipuiston huoltomieheen, Speedy Parkeriin. Parker kertoo, että on olemassa rinnakkainen maailma, Territorio, ja siellä taianomainen Talismaani, jonka avulla hänen äitinsä voisi parantua. Alkaa piinaavan jännittävä etsintämatka, jonka aikana Jack liikkuu maailmasta toiseen. Kerran toisensa jälkeen hän joutuu vaikean valinnan eteen, sillä jokainen päätös vaikuttaa molempiin maailmoihin - hyvässä tai pahassa. Amerikkalaisen kauhukirjallisuuden kärkinimet Stephen King ja Peter Straub pitivät toistensa kirjoista jo ennen kuin olivat tutustuneet toisiinsa. Kun he tapasivat Lontoossa vuonna 1977, syntyi ajatus kirjoittaa yhdessä. Lopputuloksena syntyi siihen asti mittavin koskaan nähty kauhukirjallisuuden yhteistyöprojekti: Talismaani. Vuonna 1984 ilmestyneellä teoksella on suora yhteys Kingin magnum opukseen, kahdeksanosaiseen Musta torni -sarjaan. Sen jatko-osa Pimeyden talo ilmestyi 2001.

BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNER - The acclaimed thriller of supernatural horror from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story, Koko, and The Talisman. "Ghastly, hide-your-eyes horror; when Peter Straub turns on all jets, no one in the scream factory can equal him."--Stephen King BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVEL Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan has a paralyzing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious figure in black whom he calls Mr. X. Now, with his birthday fast approaching, Ned has been drawn back to his hometown of Edgerton, Illinois, by a premonition that his mother is dying. On her deathbed, she imparts to him the name of his long-absent father and warns him that he is in grave danger. Despite her foreboding, he embarks on a search through Edgerton's past for the truth behind his own identity and that of his entirely fantastic family. But when Ned becomes the lead suspect in three violent deaths, he begins to realize that he is not the only one who has come home. . . .

A riveting novel that "combines the intellectual-puzzle mystery with a powerful vein of psycho-thriller suspense" (The Washington Post) and "moves like an express train" (Stephen King), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story. They are dying, one by one. Wealthy, middle-aged women in an exclusive Connecticut suburb. Their murderer remains at large. Nora Chancel, wife of publishing scion Davey Chancel, fears she may be next. After all, her past has branded her a victim. Then Davey tells Nora a surreal story about the Hellfire Club, where years before he met an obsessed fan of Chancel House's most successful book, Night Journey--a book that has a strange history of its own. Suddenly terror engulfs Nora: She must defend herself against fantastic accusations even as a madman lies in wait. And when he springs, she will embark on a night journey that will put her victimhood to rest forever, dead or alive.

THE HELLFIRE CLUB is a reissued thriller from the multi-million copy bestselling author, Peter Straub. Perfect for fans of Stephen King.

The spirits of the dead have walked among our legends, myths, and stories since before recorded history. Ghostly visitations, hauntings, unquiet souls seeking the living, vengeful wraiths, the possibility of life beyond the grave that can somehow reach out and touch us are some of literature’s most enduring icons. Now, in the twenty-first century, we are no less fascinated with phantoms than our cave-dwelling ancestors or our Victorian-age forebears. Thirty modern masters of fright and fantasy fill this anthology with shivers, chills, and spooky explorations of both sides of the veil. Be prepared to keep a light on all night!

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story--and 8-time Bram Stoker Award winner--gathers 24 bone-chilling, nail-biting, frightfully imaginative stories that represent the best of contemporary horror writing. "Revelatory.... A remarkably consistent, frequently unsettling book." --The Washington Post " Straub] collects the best scary short stories out there." --Time Dan Chaon "The Bees" Elizabeth Hand "Cleopatra Brimstone" Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem "The Man on the Ceiling" M. John Harrison "The Great God Plan" Ramsey Campbell "The Voice of the Beach" Brian Evenson "Body" Kelly Link "Louise's Ghost" Jonathan Carroll "The Sadness of Detail" M. Rickert "Leda" Thomas Tessier "In Praise of Folly"David J. Schow "Plot Twist" Glen Hirshberg "The Two Sams" Thomas Ligotti "Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story" Benjamin Percy "Unearthed" Bradford Morrow "Gardener of Heart" Peter Straub "Little Red's Tango" Stephen King "The Ballad of a Flexible Bullet" Joe Hill "20th Century Ghost" Ellen Klages "The Green Glass Sea" Tia V. Travis "The Kiss" Graham Joyce "Black Dust"John Crowley "Missolonghi 1824" Rosalind Palermo Stevenson "Insect Dreams"

One of the great classics of modern horror!

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 arresting foray into the dark fantastic."--The Washington Post Book World Willy Patrick, respected author of the award-winning young adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is losing her mind. She is drawn helplessly into the parking lot of a warehouse, knowing somehow that her daughter, Holly, is being held in the building. But this is impossible--Willy's daughter is dead. On that same day, author Timothy Underhill, who has been struggling with a new book about a troubled young woman, is confronted with the ghost of his nine-year-old sister, April. Soon after, he begins to receive eerie, fragmented emails from people he knew in his youth--people now dead. Like his sister, they want urgently to tell him something. When Willy and Tim meet, the frightening parallels between Willy's tragic loss and the story in Tim's manuscript suggest that they must join forces to confront the evils surrounding them.

WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD - While investigating his nephew's disappearance, a man discovers a twisted web of secrets that threatens everything he holds dear in this "masterful tale of ultra horror" (Entertainment Weekly) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story. "A nuanced, layered reworking of the haunted house story."--The Philadelphia Inquirer A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son--beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill--vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark's inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law's funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother's suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled upon its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.

A week after a woman kills herself for no apparent reason, her teenage son disappears. The boy's uncle returns to his hometown to discover what he can. He believes that the boy's disappearance is connected to an old house. This psychological thriller has a supernatural twist in its tail.

A collection of short stories from the acclaimed "master of horror". Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche in these seven tales of living, dying and the terror that lies in between.

Peter Straub’s most acclaimed and biggest-selling novel – a visceral thriller with its roots in Vietnam – now reissued in a new cover style and making its first appearance on the HarperCollins list. ‘KOKO… ’ Only four men knew what it meant. Vietnam vets. One was a doctor. One was a lawyer. One was a working stiff. One was a writer. All were as different as men could be – yet all were bound eternally together by a single shattering secret. And now they are joined together again on a quest that could take them from the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York, hunting an inhuman ghost of the past risen from nightmare darkness to kill and kill…

Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan has a paralysing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious figure in black whom he calls Mr X. - and again his birthday is fast approaching.

A dark, haunting, multi-layered story of detection and suspense from the acclaimed author of Koko, The Talisman and Mr X. First published in 1990 and now reissued in a new cover style.