Peter Straub
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When a group of friends tries to come to grips with a gruesome ritual that shattered their lives decades ago, they find themselves haunted by unspeakable evil. This may be Peter Straub’s most terrifying novel yet.
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These two titans of horror first joined forces in the spellbinding novel The Talisman. Now they’ve reunited to tell the equally frightening tale of a small Wisconsin town terrorized by a child killer named the Fisherman.
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In a quest to save his mother, 12-year-old Jack Sawyer faces the dangers of a fantastical land known as the Territories.
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PETER STRAUB
Date of Birth: March 2, 1943
Birthplace: Milwaukee, WI
Current Residence: Connecticut
Education: University of Wisconsin, Madison, B.A., 1965; Columbia University, M.A., 1966; attended University College, Dublin, 1969-72.
Profession: English teacher, University School, Milwaukee, WI, 1966-69; writer, 1969--.
I want readers to feel as if they've left the real world behind just a little bit, but are still buoyed up and confident, as if in dreams. . . .standing in midair with a lot of peculiar visions in their heads.
-Peter Straub, Current Biography Yearbook, 1989
The best horror, in fact, the most frightening, is firmly based in the usual fictional context. . . in the place where one finds characters who are felt to be real, about whom one cares, in an equally realistic, however "developed" setting. The concentration of some splatterpunks on purely immediate and visceral detail had a wonderfully liberating effect, at the start, but to keep on writing that way would be like playing piano with a one-octave keyboard.
-Peter Straub, Live Chat sponsored by People magazine, October 31, 1995
The storytelling dream team behind the haunting 1984 bestseller The Talisman has returned with a haunting sequel that is more daring and much more twisted than its predecessor...Rich in detail (sometimes to a fault), cinematic in its scope, and populated with a wide array of freaky and endearing characters, Black House, though perhaps not King and Straub's best work, is a wild, fantastical romp with the macabre. Just don't turn off the lights.
-Stephen Bloom, The Barnes & Noble Review
