Peter Straub

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1976
  • Latest Book:
    August 2017
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Full Series List in Order

The Blue Rose Trilogy

1 - Koko (Sep-1988)
2 - Mystery (Jan-1990)
3 - The Throat (Apr-1993)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • Julia

    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 purcha...

  • If You Could See Me Now

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story -- the terrifying, “electrifying” novel (Stephen King) about a man who flees the wreckage of his life to face the ghosts of his past, only to encounter a sinister force, ready to kill.&...

  • Marriages

  • Ghost Story

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub’s classic tale of horror, secrets, and the dangerous ghosts of the past...   What was the worst thing you’ve ever done?   In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to ...

  • Shadowland

    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 worl...

  • Floating Dragon

    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. And it makes the first look like child's...

  • Wild Animals

  • Under Venus

  • The Juniper Tree

    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...



  • Koko

    The Blue Rose Trilogy - 1

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story comes “an inspired thriller” (The Washington Post) about four Vietnam vets linked by a shattering secret and their global hunt to track down a brutal killer. Koko. Only four men kn...

  • Mystery

    The Blue Rose Trilogy - 2

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story comes “a dark, labyrinthian tale of murder and family relationships” (Chicago Sun-Times), starring an unlikely duo who must confront demons from the past and dark secrets that still hau...

  • Houses Without Doors

    A chilling selection of short fiction--including early stories, new pieces, and two never-before-published novellas--features "Mrs. God," "The Buffalo Hunter," and other works that reveal the horrors that lurk beneath the surface of the ordinary worl...

  • The Throat

    The Blue Rose Trilogy - 3

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story brings the chilling Blue Rose Trilogy to an astonishing close -- secrets unearthed, demons revisited, and mysteries solved. • “A masterpiece…. The most intelligent novel of suspense to com...

  • Ghosts

  • Blue Rose

  • The Hellfire Club

    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. . . ...

  • Mrs. God

    From New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub, the tale of a literary sojourn that turns into something far more sinister.Esswood House. Home and estate of the Seneschal family, aristocratic patrons of the literary arts for well over ...

  • Isn't It Romantic?

  • Mr. X

    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 th...



  • Looking Back

    in Mothers and Sons

    Released in time for Mother's Day, this collection of twelve true stories of motherhood celebrates the special bond between mother and son in works by Eric Jerome Dickey, Eileen Goudge, Peter Straub, Faye Kellerman, Diana Gabaldon, Lawrence Block, St...

  • Magic Terror

    No one tells a story like Peter Straub. He dazzles with the complexity of his plots. He delights with the sophistication and eloquence of his prose. He startles you into laughter in the face of events so dark you begin to question your own moral comp...

  • The Geezers

    in Murder among Friends

  • Ronald, D---!

    A dozen of today's masters of mystery and suspense present an all-original anthology of compelling, provocative stories, revealing that the families that play together sometimes slay together. Featuring stories by: LAWRENCE BLOCK * MARY HIGGINS ...

  • Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists

    For perhaps two decades, a small group of writers rooted in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror have been simultaneously exploring and erasing the boundaries of those genres by creating fiction of remarkable depth and power. Their conne...

  • Lost Boy, Lost Girl

    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 feel...

  • In the Night Room

    In his latest soul-chilling novel, bestselling author Peter Straub tells of a famous children’s book author who, in the wake of a grotesque accident, realizes that the most basic facts of her existence, including her existence itself, have come int...

  • The Little Blue Book of Rose Stories

    The eighth in the first series of Little Books from Borderlands Press is A Little Blue Book of Rose Stories. This is a collection of two of Peter Straub's stories which center around the Blue Rose mysteries which have been featured in some of his be...

  • 5 STORIES

    Offered for the first time in a collected format, this selection of short stories features five gripping tales by one of the horror genre's most literate and endlessly inventive writers, Peter Straub - "Little Red's Tango," "Lapland, or Film Noir," "...

  • Poe's Children

    From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today's most talented voices in the genre. Horror writing is usually associate...



  • The Skylark

    What Subterranean Press will be publishing is an earlier state of the novel now called A Dark Matter, not merely the limited version of the trade edition. I wish to have it preserved and published in this form as well as the final, many-times-re-edit...

  • American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

    The second volume of Peter Straub’s pathbreaking two-volume anthology American Fantastic Tales picks up the story in 1940 and provides persuasive evidence that the decades since then have seen an extraordinary flowering. While continuing to explore...

  • American Fantastic Tales:Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

    From early on, American literature has teemed with tales of horror, of hauntings, of terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. As this...

  • A Dark Matter

    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 souls of all who were present....

  • A Special Place

    From the bestselling author of Ghost Story, Shadowland, and The Talisman, a novella-length rumination on the nature of evil. A Special Place, Peter Straub’s first published novella, will come to stand as one of the author’s most deeply unsettl...

  • The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories

    Peter Straub's Blue Rose trilogy (Koko, Mystery, and The Throat) is one of the landmark accomplishments of modern popular fiction. Ranging from the Caribbean to Vietnam to the American Midwest and spanning decades of tumultuous history, these books a...

  • Pork Pie Hat

    Passionate about jazz, the narrator dicovers that one of his greatest heroes, a saxophonist by the name of Pork Pie Hat, is still alive and playing at a club he frequents. Granted an interview by the Hat, the narrator gets a night of extraordinary st...

  • Sides

    Sidesby Peter StraubOver twenty years in the making, SIDES represents the first ever collectionof non-fiction by bestselling author Peter Straub. Featuring introductions,essays, afterwords, and even a "frivolity" along with the collected works ofPutn...

  • The Green Woman

    New York Times best-selling author Peter Straub resurrects his most sinister creation, Fielding “Fee” Bandolier, the unstoppable serial killer last seen in Straub’s bestseller The Throat. Aging and tired of a life devoted to death, Fee is prepa...

  • The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine

    Meet Ballard and Sandrine, the eponymous protagonists of Peter Straub's extraordinary, deeply unsettling new novella. The two are lovers, widely separated in age but bound together by a common erotic obsession. Their story, which takes place over a p...



  • The Buffalo Hunter

    A socially stunted thirty-five-year-old man named Bobby Bunting deals with isolation and his fear of women in highly unusual ways. ...

  • Perdido

    ''Perdido,'' a fragment from a never completed longer work, is a rare and unexpected gift for Peter Straub's legion of fans. Even in this fragmentary form, it offers the sort of vivid, unexpected pleasures that only the finest imaginative fiction can...

  • The Monstrous

    "Superstar editor Datlow makes no missteps...." -- Publishers Weekly Take a terrifying journey with literary masters of suspense, including Peter Straub, Kim Newman, and Caitlín R. Kiernan, visiting a place where the other is somehow one of us. The...

  • Interior Darkness

    An American icon renowned for his bestselling novels, Peter Straub displays his full and stunning range in this crowning collection. He has consistently subverted the boundaries of genre for years, transcending horror and suspense to unlock the dark,...

  • The Process (Is a Process All Its Own)

    In The Process (is a Process All Its Own), Peter Straub brings back Tillman Hayward, a latter day Jack the Ripper familiar to readers of The Skylark and A Special Place. Tilly, known for good reasons as The Ladykiller, stands at the dark heart of thi...

  • Ashputtle

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    This is the first volume in the Dark Voices series, which features award-winning, best-selling authors reading their own short fiction. A copy of the story also appears in print in a high-quality chapbook. Each volume features original music written ...

Award-Winning Books by Peter Straub

American Fantastic Tales:Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
2010 World Fantasy Award -- Anthology
In the Night Room
2005 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel
Koko
1989 World Fantasy Award -- Novel
Lost Boy, Lost Girl
2004 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel
Mr. X
2000 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel
The Throat
1994 Bram Stoker Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Straub has published 45 books.

Peter Straub does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Process (Is a Process All Its Own), was published in August 2017.

The first book by Peter Straub, Julia, was published in March 1976.

Yes. Peter Straub has 1 series.
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