Peter Straub

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Born:
March 2, 1943
Died:
Sept. 4, 2022

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Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 2 March, 1943, the first of three sons of a salesman and a nurse. The salesman wanted him to become an athlete, the nurse thought he would do well as either a doctor or a Lutheran minister, but all he wanted to do was to learn to read.

When kindergarten turned out to be a stupefyingly banal disappointment devoted to cutting animal shapes out of heavy colored paper, he took matters into his own hands and taught himself to read by memorizing his comic books and reciting them over and over to other neighborhood children on the front steps until he could recognize the words. Therefore, when he finally got to first grade to find everyone else laboring over the imbecile adventures of Dick, Jane and Spot (“See Spot run. See, see, see,”), he ransacked the library in search of pirates, soldiers, detectives, spies, criminals, and other colorful souls, Soon he had earned a reputation as an ace storyteller, in demand around campfires and in back yards on summer evenings.

This career as the John Buchan to the first grade was interrupted by a collision between himself and an automobile which resulted …

Books by Peter Straub

Stephen King, Peter Straub: The Talisman (Paperback, 2018, Gallery Books)

The Talisman

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Peter Straub: Ghost Story (Paperback, 1989, Pocket)

Ghost Story

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Peter Straub: Koko (Paperback, 2001, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd)

Koko

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Peter Straub: The Throat (1994, Signet)

The Throat

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Stephen King, Peter Straub: Black House (Paperback, 2002, Ballantine Books)

Black House

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Neil Gaiman, Tim Powers, Joyce Carol Oates, Kat Howard, Elizabeth Hand, Richard Adams, Peter Straub, Diana Wynne Jones, Joe Hill, Joanne Harris, Michael Moorcock, Roddy Doyle, Jonathan Carroll, Jodi Picoult, Joe R. Lansdale, Al Sarrantonio, Michael Marshall Smith, Lawrence Block, Chuck Palahniuk, Gene Wolfe, Walter Mosley, Michael Swanwick, Jeffrey Ford, Stewart O'Nan, Carolyn Parkhurst, Jeffrey Deaver, Kurt Anderson: Stories (EBook, 2010, HarperCollins)

Stories

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Peter Straub: A dark matter (2010, Doubleday)

A dark matter

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Peter Straub: American fantastic tales (2009, Library of America) No rating

American fantastic tales

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Stephen King, Whitley Strieber, M. John Harrison, Thomas Ligotti, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, David Morrell, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Hazel, Charles L. Grant, Dennis Etchison, Douglas E. Winter, Thomas Tessier, Jack Cady: Prime Evil (Paperback, 1989, New American Library)

Prime Evil

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Peter Straub: Floating dragon (1983, Putnam)

Floating dragon

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Peter Straub: Shadowland (Paperback, French language, 1998, J'ai lu)

Shadowland

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Peter Straub: Ghost Story (Paperback, 2013, BRAGELONNE)

Ghost Story

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Peter Straub: The juniper tree (2010, Subterranean Press) No rating

The juniper tree

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Peter Straub: Mystery (Paperback, German language, 1992, Wilhelm Heyne)

Mystery

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