He has published several collections of short fiction ( Houses Without Doors (1989), Magic Terror (2000), Five Stories (2008)), a collection of essays ( Sides (2007)), and has co-written a graphic novel ( The Green Woman (2010)). (1999), respectively), two short novels that use the tropes of conventional horror narratives to explore the relationship between loss and fantasy ( lost boy/lost girl (2003) and In the Night Room (2004)), and a long novel that appeared in a limited edition as he wrote it ( The Skylark (2010)) and in a mass market edition as he edited it ( A Dark Matter (2010)).
Since then, Straub has written two long novels that continued his exploration of the suspense and horror fields ( The Hellfire Club (1996) and Mr. Straub’s next solo project after The Talisman, the Blue Rose trilogy ( Koko (1988), Mystery (1989), The Throat (1993)), engaged the suspense and mystery genres to construct what might be the central work of his career, one rooted in an obsession with the multifarious ways the violence of the past continues to twist the present.
In 1984, Straub co-wrote The Talisman with Stephen King the two would return to the material of the novel in 2001, with Black House. His early successes in the field, Julia (1975) and If You Could See Me Now (1976), were followed by a set of three novels, Ghost Story (1979), Shadowland (1980), and Floating Dragon (1983), that dramatically expanded the possibilities of the horror novel. Peter Straub (b.1943) has been for more than three decades one of the leading lights of horror and suspense fiction.
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