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About Peter Straub

Peter Francis Straub (; March 2, 1943 – September 4, 2022) was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with Stephen King. He explored the mystery genre with the Blue Rose trilogy, consisting of Koko (1988), Mystery (1990), and The Throat (1993). He fused the supernatural with crime fiction in Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) and the related In the Night Room (2004). For the Library of America, he edited the volume H. P. Lovecraft: Tales and the anthology American Fantastic Tales. Straub received such literary honors as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award.

According to his New York Times obituary, Straub "brought a poet's sensibility to stories about ghosts, demons and other things that go bump in the night."

Peter Straub writes about Fiction, Fiction, horror, Horror tales, American Horror tales, Fiction, short stories (single author), and Fiction, general. Their best-known work is The talisman.

On FindMyTBR we track 24 books by Peter Straub, 23 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including 5 Stories (Unabridged), A Dark Matter (Unabridged), and Ashputtle: Dark Voices, Vol. 4 (Unabridged) [Unabridged Fiction]. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.