Neil Gaiman

Peter Straub

An attempt to summon and imprison Death, results, instead, in the capture of Morpheus, the Sandman, who must regain the tools of his powers.

Brief Lives

The Sandman

Brian Evenson

Forcibly recruited into an underground religious cult in order to solve a murder, detective Kline weaves through a maze of lies, threats, and misinformation involving stakes that are much higher than he anticipated. By the author of The Wavering Knife. Original.

Last Days

#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 tell each other stories--some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives. But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever...

Ghost Story

Best friends Tom Flanagan and Del Nightingale, apprentices to a master magician, enter a dark realm of immeasurable evil, more ancient than death itself, where only one of them will survive.

Shadowland

Old friends try to come to grips with the darkness of the past--a secret ritual that left behind a gruesomely dismembered body--and find themselves face-to-face with the evil they helped create.

A Novel

A Dark Matter

The quaint town of Hamptead is plunged into a nightmarish world of unspeakable horror when evil arrives in the form of two very different beings--one man-made and one supernatural. Reissue.

Floating Dragon

Koko is Peter Straub's foray into the psychological horror of the Vietnam War.

Koko

The bizarre suicide of a woman and the disappearance of her teenage son, Mark, draws the boy's uncle, Timothy Underhill, back to his hometown of Millhaven, where his investigation uncovers a neighborhood haunted by the presence of a serial killer and by an abandoned house whose inhabitant, a lost girl, may have lured Mark into her mysterious domain. Reprint.

Lost Boy, Lost Girl

Stephen King

A retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in a rural Wisconsin town, Jack Sawyer is called in to assist the local police chief in solving a gruesome series of murders that causes Jack to experience inexplicable waking nightmares.

Black House

In a new edition of an early horror classic by the author of The Hellfire Club, Julia Lufting, mourning the death of her child and struggling to to put the tragedy behind her, finds herself haunted by another terrifying child as she deals with the unspeakable truth about the way the youngster had died. Reprint.

Julia

The continuing mystery of the Blue Rose Murders draws Tim Underhill back to his home town, where he will help a friend accused of murdering his wife clear his name. By the author of Koko. Reissue.

The Throat

A l'âge de dix ans, Tom Pasmore est tué. Enfin presque. Miraculeusement il survit. Cette fugitive expérience de vie après la vie le laisse marqué à jamais. Adolescent, son étrange obsession pour la mort le pousse à vouloir jouer les détectives amateurs. Mais à s'intéresser de trop près à des meurtres inexpliqués, et à fouiller dans les secrets de famille, il découvre plus qu'il ne le souhaiterait et risque de mourir pour la seconde fois, sans espoir de retour.

Mystery

A second half of a two-part anthology is a diverse volume of short tales by leading genre authors from the latter half of the twentieth century that includes entries by such names as Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, and Stephen King.

Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now

American Fantastic Tales

The iconic, “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) collaboration between #1 bestselling author Stephen King and Peter Straub—an epic thriller about a young boy’s quest to save his mother’s life. Why had twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer’s mother frantically moved the two of them from Rodeo Drive to a New York City apartment to the Alhambra, a fading ocean resort and shuttered amusement park in New Hampshire? Who or what is she running from? She is dying . . . and even young Jack knows she can’t outrun death. But only he can save her—for he has been chosen to search for a prize across an epic landscape of dangers and lies, a realm of innocents and monsters, where everything Jack loves is on the line.

The Talisman

Willy Patrick, an award-winning young-adult novelist, finds her life intersecting with that of a stranger, writer Timothy Underhill, when she experiences an eerie experience involving the death of her daughter and Timothy begins to receive bizarre communications from dead people he had known in his youth. Reprint.

In the Night Room

The Talisman; Black House

The award-winning new supernatural thriller from the acclaimed author of Ghost Story, Koko, The Throat and The Talisman.

Mr X

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 unsettling works of fiction. A rumination on the nature of evil, the story centers on a boy, Keith Hayward, who is drawn by his nature to an irresistible fascination with death and the taking of life. His father’s brother, the good-looking, suave Uncle Till—the infamous ladykiller, who has led a shadowy career as a local celebrity—recognizes his nephew’s innermost nature and gleefully tutors him in art of doing ill without getting caught. Even a cold-blooded sociopath must learn some lessons in survival, in seems, and Uncle Till is only happy to provide a tutorial, in the latest imaginative and disturbing work from one of America's most celebrated horror writers.

A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter

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 world. Reissue.

Houses Without Doors

When a serial killer stalks the wealthy, middle-aged women of an exclusive Connecticut suburb, odd clues turn the authorities' attention to publisher's wife Nora Chancel, who is kidnapped and taken on a hellish journey. Reissue.

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