Peter Straub: 45 books

« Terrifiant... Impossible à lâcher. » - Stephen King « J’ai lu ce roman jusqu’au bout de la nuit. Straub y tisse un cauchemar d’un autre monde. À dévorer absolument. » - Stephen King Wisconsin, années 1960. Spencer Mallon, un gourou au charisme sulfureux, invite ses jeunes disciples...

Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.   Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom...

An electric, chilling, and unpredictable novel from the master of modern horror. 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...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post). Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe...

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,...

You have been there… if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real. Only one of them will make it through.

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...

MYSTERY. Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident. During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn’t. Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the...

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...

Zwei Autoren, die für exzellenten Horror stehen, haben ihre Fähigkeiten zum zweiten Mal vereint; zwanzig Jahre nach «Der Talisman» legen sie erneut einen packenden Roman vor. Um einen unheimlichen Serienmörder zu stellen, muss Ex-Detective Jack Sawyer das schwarze Haus betreten - es ist der Eingang zu einer anderen Welt.

Die perfekte Mischung aus Fantasy und Horror. Im Vorläufer zu King/Straubs Bestseller "Das Schwarze Haus" begibt sich der zwölfjährige Jack Sawyer auf eine weite, abenteuerliche Reise, in der Idylle und Entsetzen nahe beieinander liegen. Meisterregisseur Steven Spielberg hat sich die Verfilmungsrechte an "Der Talisman" für "DreamWorks" gesichert.

« Un livre dévastateur à la progression inexorable... Ghost Story vous transporte d’effroi. La peur vous envahit et vous submerge. Du grand fantastique, de la grande aventure : un roman éblouissant. » Stephen King Dans la sinistre petite ville de Milburn, quatre vieux amis passent leurs...

Eine Kinderbuchautorin hat gerade erst ihr Trauma überwunden, nachdem ihr Mann und ihre Tochter ermordet worden waren. Bei einer Lesung trifft sie auf einen anderen Autor, der in seiner Kindheit seine Schwester auf tragische Weise verloren hat. Als er die Autorin sieht, ist er entsetzt, denn sie...

« Une variation étourdissante sur le thème fantastique du double. Un très grand livre. » Jacques Baudou, Le Monde Chaque année depuis l’enfance, le jour de son anniversaire, Ned Dunstan expérimente le même phénomène traumatique : il se retrouve confronté dans une scène de cauchemar...