Peter Straub#Bibliography

Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Gordon Anthony Straub and Elvena (Nilsestuen) Straub.Roberts, James P. Famous Wisconsin Authors, Badger Books Inc., 2002, pp. 167–173. {{ISBN|1-878569-85-6}}.{{Cite book |last1=Colby |first1=Vineta |title=World Authors, 1985–1990 |last2=Wilson |first2=H. W. |year=1995 |publisher=H.W. Wilson |isbn=9780824208752}} At the age of seven, Straub was struck by a car, sustaining serious injuries. He was hospitalized for several months and used a wheelchair until he had re-learned how to walk. Straub has said that the accident made him prematurely aware of his own mortality.Morgan, John. [https://www.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2002/02-01-king-spotlight.htm "Stephen King scares up support for fallen friend"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425074150/http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2002/02-01-king-spotlight.htm |date=April 25, 2011 }}, USA Today, Health section, published February 1, 2002. Retrieved April 29, 2008.

Straub read voraciously from an early age, although his father hoped that he would grow up to be a professional athlete, and his mother wanted him to be a Lutheran minister.Roberts, p. 168. He attended Milwaukee Country Day School on a scholarship, and, during his time there, began writing. In high school, he "discovered Thomas Wolfe and Jack Kerouac, patron saints of wounded and self-conscious adolescence and also, blessedly, jazz music, which spoke in utterance of beyond any constraint: passion and liberation in the form of speech on the far side of the verbal border."{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=http://peterstraub.net/biography/ |publisher=Peter Straub |df=mdy-all}}

Straub attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he discovered "the various joys of Henry James, William Carlos Williams, and the Texas blues-rocker Steve Miller, a great & joyous character who lived across the street."{{Sfn|Straub}} He earned an honors BA in English in 1965 and an MA at Columbia University a year later. He briefly taught English at Milwaukee Country Day, where he "enjoyed a minor but temporary success as Mr. Chips-cum-jalapenos, largely due to the absolute freedom given him by the administration and his affection for his students, who faithfully followed him as he struck matches and led them into caves named Lawrence, Forster, Brontë, Thackeray, etc., etc. On his off-hours, he fell in love with poetry, especially John Ashbery’s poetry, and wrote imitations of same. Three years later, fearing to turn into a spiritless & chalk-stained drudge, he went to Dublin, Ireland, to work on a Ph.D., secretly (a secret even to him) to start writing seriously."{{Sfn|Straub}}

After mixed success with two attempts at literary mainstream novels in the mid-1970s (Marriages and Under Venus), Straub dabbled in the supernatural for the first time with Julia (1975). He recalls that "The reason I chose to write scary books was because, at the time, there were three horror novels that had been enormously successful: The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby and The Other. But there were only three of them, so it looked to me as though there was plenty of room for newcomers. And if I wrote in the horror genre, I knew I could do anything. I could experiment."{{cite web| title=What is it Like... To Co-write a Bestselling Novel with Stephen King?| url= https://www.usm.org/about/usm-today/post/~board/2018-19-fall-winter/post/what-is-it-like-to-co-write-a-bestselling-novel-with-stephen-king}} He followed Julia with If You Could See Me Now (1977), and came to widespread public attention with his fifth novel, Ghost Story (1979), which was a critical success and was later loosely adapted into a 1981 film starring Fred Astaire. In 1980, he published the fantasy Shadowland.{{Cite web |title=SHADOWLAND - Peter Straub |url=http://peterstraub.net/exclusive-text/shadowland/ |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=peterstraub.net}} After returning to America, he wrote Floating Dragon, which won the August Derleth Award.{{Cite web |title=sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 1984 |url=https://www.sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_1984 |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=www.sfadb.com}} He said "I knew that this book would be an at least temporary farewell to the supernatural material that had been my daily fare."{{Cite web |title=FLOATING DRAGON - Peter Straub |url=http://peterstraub.net/exclusive-text/floating-dragon/ |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=peterstraub.net}} He coauthored the horror-fantasy The Talisman with his longtime friend Stephen King.

After a fallow period, Straub re-emerged in 1988 with Koko, a non-supernatural (though horrific) novel about the Vietnam war.{{Cite web |title=Koko by Peter Straub |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780525246602 |date=1988-09-01 |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}} Koko was followed by Mystery (1990) and The Throat (1993). The three novels comprise the "Blue Rose Trilogy", which extended Straub's experiments with metafiction and unreliable narrators.{{Cite web |title=Blue Rose Trilogy |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/C8P/blue-rose-trilogy |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Driscoll |first=Audrey |date=2022-02-27 |title=Compellingly Re-readable: Peter Straub's "Blue Rose" Books |url=https://audreydriscoll.com/2022/02/27/compellingly-re-readable-peter-straubs-blue-rose-books/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Audrey Driscoll's Blog |language=en}}

In 1990, Straub published Houses Without Doors, a collection of short fiction including the shorter version of the novella Mrs. God. In 1996, he published the mainstream thriller The Hellfire Club.{{Cite web |title=The Hellfire Club by Peter Straub |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780679401377 |date=1996-01-01 |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}} In 1999, Straub published Mr. X, a novel with a doppelgänger theme. The novel pays homage to H. P. Lovecraft, as the eponymous character writes in a similar style.{{Cite web |date=1999-06-28 |title=Mr. X by Peter Straub |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780679401384 |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}{{Cite web |title=Onyx reviews – Mr. X by Peter Straub |url=https://www.bevvincent.com/onyx/straub-mrx.html |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.bevvincent.com}} In 2001, Straub and King rejoined forces for Black House, a loose sequel to The Talisman which tied that book in with King's The Dark Tower series. 2003 saw the publication of Lost Boy, Lost Girl, followed a year later by the related In the Night Room. Both won the Bram Stoker Award.{{Cite web |title=2004 Award Winners & Nominees |url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?year=2004 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006102531/http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?Year=2004 |archive-date=October 6, 2009 |access-date=2011-11-05 |website=Worlds Without End}}

In 2005, Straub edited the Library of America volume H. P. Lovecraft: Tales.{{Cite web |title=H. P. Lovecraft: Tales {{!}} Library of America |url=https://loa.org/books/223-tales |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=loa.org}} In 2009, Straub edited the Library of America anthology American Fantastic Tales.{{Cite news |title=American Fantastic Tales: Terror and Uncanny From Poe to the Pulps |work=Publishers Weekly |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781598530476}}

Straub published several books of poetry. My Life in Pictures appeared in 1971 as part of a series of six poetry pamphlets Straub published with his friend Thomas Tessier under the Seafront Press imprint while living in Dublin. In 1972 the more substantial chapbook Ishmael was published by Turret Books in London. Straub's third book of poetry, Open Air, appeared later that same year from Irish University Press. The collection Leeson Park and Belsize Square: Poems 1970 – 1975 was published by Underwood-Miller in October 1983. It reprinted much of Ishmael along with previously uncollected poems, but none of the poems from Open Air. He also sat on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions, and he guest-edited Conjunctions #39, an issue on New Wave Fabulism.Conjunctions:39 – The New Wave Fabulists. Fall 2002, edited by Bradford Morrow and Peter Straub.

In 2007, Straub's personal papers were acquired by the Fales Library at New York University.{{Cite web |last=Communications |first=NYU Web |title=NYU's Fales Collection Acquires Novelist Peter Straub's Papers |url=http://www.nyu.edu/content/nyu/en/about/news-publications/news/2007/january/nyus_fales_collection |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906222621/https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2007/january/nyus_fales_collection.html |archive-date=September 6, 2022 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=www.nyu.edu |language=en}}

Straub's final novel, A Dark Matter, was released in February 2010.{{Cite web |last=Barton |first=Steve |date=January 28, 2010 |title=Contest and Trailer for Peter Straub's A Dark Matter |url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/15430/contest-and-trailer-for-peter-straub-s-a-dark-matter/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151003222804/http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/15430/contest-and-trailer-for-peter-straub-s-a-dark-matter/ |archive-date=October 3, 2015 |access-date=September 6, 2022}}

In 2013, Straub appeared on the Code Street podcast with fantasist John Crowley.{{Cite web |date=2013-07-13 |title=Episode 150: Live with John Crowley and Peter Straub! {{!}} Notes from Coode Street |url=https://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2013/07/13/episode-150-live-with-john-crowley-and-peter-straub/ |access-date=2023-10-23 |language=en-AU}}

In 2016, co-author Stephen King said that he and Straub had plans to write a third Talisman book in the future. King says that the collaboration for the series was "natural," and that the two were excited to work together. In a 2021 appearance on the Dead Headspace podcast, Straub said that due to his health, it was unlikely that he would co-write a third Talisman with King.{{Cite web |title=Dead Headspace: Ep. 105 – Peter Straub | date=July 25, 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vGoCe6PuqU |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110200609/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vGoCe6PuqU&gl=US&hl=en |archive-date=November 10, 2021 |access-date=October 14, 2021 |via=www.youtube.com}}

In 2024 Penguin Random House launched the republication {{Cite web |title=Beginning July 30, 2024, Penguin Random House will re-publish many of Peter Straub's novels with new cover artwork. Each will include blurbs and introductions by writers who adored him and his work |url=https://www.peterstraub.net}} of many of Straub's novels with new cover art and blurbs.

A critical essay on Straub's horror work can be found in S. T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale (2001).{{Cite book |url=https://www.librarything.com/work/956518 |title=The Modern Weird Tale : A Critique of Horror Fiction by S. T. Joshi |language=en |access-date=2022-09-07}} At the Foot of the Story Tree by Bill Sheehan discusses Straub's work before 2000.{{Cite web |title=Peter Straub and transcendental horror. – Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Peter+Straub+and+transcendental+horror.-a0218817883 |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}{{Cite web |title=At the Foot of the Story Tree: An Inquiry Into the Fict… |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/2880140-at-the-foot-of-the-story-tree-an-inquiry-into-the-fiction-of-peter-stra |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Goodreads |language=en}} John C. Tibbetts wrote a book-length study, The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub.{{Cite web |date=2016-10-26 |title=New book examines America's greatest ghost-story writer |url=https://today.ku.edu/2016/10/26/new-book-greatest-ghost-story-writer |access-date=2023-10-22 |website=The University of Kansas |language=en}}

In Andrew Shaffer's Secret Santa, a character refers to Stephen King, Anne Rice and Straub as "the unholy trinity" of horror.{{Cite web |title=Where to Start with Peter Straub |url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2022/10/18/where-start-peter-straub |access-date=2023-10-24 |website=The New York Public Library |language=en}}

Of Straub's contribution to horror King says, "he brought a poet's sensibility to the field, creating a synthesis of horror and beauty" and "he writes a beautiful prose line that features narrative clarity, sterling characterization, and surprising bursts of humor."Tibbetts, John C. The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers., 2016, pp. 167, 197. {{ISBN|978-1-4766-6492-7}} King told The New York Times that "He was not only a literary writer with a poetic sensibility, but he was readable. And that was a fantastic thing. He was a modern writer who was the equal of, say, Philip Roth, though he wrote about fantastic things." King added that "he was a better and more literary author than I was."

Neil Gaiman paid homage to Straub, writing “One of the best writers I’ve read, one of the best friends I’ve known. Always kind, funny, irascible, brilliant."{{Cite news |last=Horton |first=Adrian |date=September 6, 2022 |title=Peter Straub, celebrated horror author, dies aged 79 |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/06/peter-straub-horror-author-death}}

Songwriter Nick Cave alludes to Straub's work in "The Curse of Millhaven" and "Do You Love Me (Part 2)".{{Cite web |title=The Straub Connection |url=https://www.bad-seed.org/~cave/misc/straub.html |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=www.bad-seed.org}} Straub said "Naturally, this pleased me enormously. It is a great honor to have your work alluded to in that way by another artist. I love the whole idea. Nick Cave is a talented, compelling performer and I could see that some of my work would fall very neatly within the territory that interests him. Eventually we wound up e-mailing each other, and he sent me a very nicely signed copy of one of his CDs. It would be nice to meet him one day."

In 1966, Straub married Susan Bitker.{{Cite web |date=2022-09-06 |title=Peter Straub, celebrated horror author, dies aged 79 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/06/peter-straub-horror-author-death |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite news |title=Peter Straub, celebrated writer of dark tales and horror, dies at 79 |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/09/06/peter-straub-horror-novelist-dies/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |issn=0190-8286}} They had two children, Benjamin and novelist Emma Straub. The family lived in Dublin from 1969 to 1972, in London from 1972 to 1979, and in the New York City area from 1979 onwards.{{Cite news |last=Risen |first=Clay |date=September 6, 2022 |title=Peter Straub, Literary Master of the Supernatural, Dies at 79 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/books/peter-straub-dead.html|newspaper = The New York Times |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=September 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906202032/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/books/peter-straub-dead.html |archive-date=September 6, 2022}}

When asked who his favorite writer was, Straub replied "I guess I have to say Henry James. At least that’s what I’d say today. On other days, I might choose Raymond Chandler, or Charles Dickens, or Wilkie Collins, or on other, other days, a real long shot, like Donald Harington. In some ways, John Ashbery will always be my favorite writer."{{Cite web |last=Straub |first=Peter |title=FAQ |url=http://peterstraub.net/faq/}}

Straub was a jazz aficionado, and saxophonist Lester Young features in his novella Pork Pie Hat. Per WBGO, "He discovered jazz as a boy growing up in Milwaukee in the late 1950s. He gravitated toward Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond, Clifford Brown, Bill Evans and Miles Davis."{{Cite web |title=For author Peter Straub, listening to jazz was like reading fiction |url=https://www.wbgo.org/podcast/the-third-story/2022-09-13/for-author-peter-straub-listening-to-jazz-was-like-reading-fiction |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=WBGO |language=en}} In addition to jazz, he was "intensely interested in opera and other forms of classical music."{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=http://peterstraub.net/biography/ |publisher=Peter Straub |df=mdy-all}}{{Cite web |title=Peter Straub Recommends|url=http://peterstraub.net/peter-straub-recommends/ |publisher=Peter Straub |df=mdy-all}}

Straub died on September 4, 2022, aged 79, from complications of a broken hip.{{Cite news |last=VanDenburgh |first=Barbara |date=September 6, 2022 |title='Talisman' author Peter Straub dies at 79: 'The smartest and most fun person' |work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/09/06/peter-straub-talisman-author-stephen-king-collaborator-dies-79/8004169001/ |url-status=live |access-date=September 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906222637/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/09/06/peter-straub-talisman-author-stephen-king-collaborator-dies-79/8004169001/ |archive-date=September 6, 2022}} At the time of his death, he and his wife lived in Brooklyn.

• 1973: Marriages{{Cite book |last=Straub |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gewzAAAAMAAJ |title=Marriages |date=1973 |publisher=André Deutsch |isbn=978-0-233-96384-6 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Marriages |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/387963-marriages |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906222620/https://www.goodreads.com/user/new |archive-date=September 6, 2022 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
• 1974: Under Venus{{Cite web |title=Publication: Under Venus |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?52752 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906222639/http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?52752 |archive-date=September 6, 2022 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=www.isfdb.org}}{{Cite web |title=Under Venus |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/1890340-under-venus |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906222619/https://www.goodreads.com/user/new |archive-date=September 6, 2022 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
• 1975: Julia{{Cite web |title=Julia |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/1813300-julia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906222642/https://www.goodreads.com/user/new |archive-date=September 6, 2022 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=danielwalterc |date=2018-01-05 |title=A Review of Julia – by Peter Straub |url=https://thebooksofdaniel.com/2018/01/05/a-review-of-julia-by-peter-straub/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027231100/https://thebooksofdaniel.com/2018/01/05/a-review-of-julia-by-peter-straub/ |archive-date=October 27, 2021 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=The Books of Daniel |language=en}}
• 1977: If You Could See Me Now{{Cite web |title=If You Could See Me Now |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/244174-if-you-could-see-me-now |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906222621/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19579.If_You_Could_See_Me_Now |archive-date=September 6, 2022 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=www.goodreads.com}}
• 1979: Ghost Story{{Cite web |title=Ghost Story |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/445057-ghost-story |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906222620/https://www.goodreads.com/user/new |archive-date=September 6, 2022 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Straub |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IU18-v_3Tm4C |title=Ghost Story |date=1980 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-671-68563-8 |language=en}}
• 1980: Shadowland
• 1983: Floating Dragon
• 1984: The Talisman (with Stephen King)
• 1988: Koko
• 1990: Mystery{{Cite web |title=Book Review : Peter Straub – Mystery (1990) |url=http://www.deadendfollies.com/blog/book-review-peter-straub-mystery-1990 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223215456/http://www.deadendfollies.com/blog/book-review-peter-straub-mystery-1990 |archive-date=February 23, 2020 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=Dead End Follies |date=March 17, 2017 |language=en-US}}{{Cite book |last=Straub |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ngH7SsKjeUgC |title=Mystery |date=1990 |publisher=Dutton |isbn=978-0-451-16869-6 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Mystery (Blue Rose Trilogy #2) |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/2641831-mystery |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906222621/https://www.goodreads.com/user/new |archive-date=September 6, 2022 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
• 1993: The Throat
• 1995: The Hellfire Club
• 1999: Mr. X
• 2001: Black House (with Stephen King)
• 2003: Lost Boy, Lost Girl
• 2004: In the Night Room
• 2010: A Dark Matter
• 2025: Wreckage{{cite web|url=https://www.peterstraub.net/wreckage/|title=Wreckage|website=peterstraub.net|access-date=7 April 2025}}

• 1990: Houses Without Doors (includes "A Short Guide to the City" and a shorter version of Mrs. God){{Cite web |title=Stories, Listed by Author |url=http://www.locusmag.com/index/s652.htm |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.locusmag.com}}
• 2000: Magic Terror{{Cite web |title=Magic Terror by Peter Straub: 9780449006887 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/174619/magic-terror-by-peter-straub/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}
• 2007: 5 Stories
• 2010: The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories{{Cite web |title=Subterranean Press Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories |url=https://subterraneanpress.com/the-juniper-tree-and-other-blue-rose-stories |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=subterraneanpress.com}}{{Cite web |title=The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories by Peter Straub |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781596062955 |date=2010-06-21 |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}
• 2016: Interior Darkness{{Cite web |title=Interior Darkness by Peter Straub: 9781101971222 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533520/interior-darkness-by-peter-straub/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-straub/interior-darkness/ |title=INTERIOR DARKNESS {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}

• 1982: The General's Wife{{Cite book |title=The General's Wife |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/194900-the-general-s-wife |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.goodreads.com|date=1982 |publisher=D.M. Grant |isbn=978-0-937986-54-7 }}
• 1990: Mrs. God (collected in "Houses Without Doors")
• 1993: The Ghost Village (collected in Magic Terror)
• 1993 Bunny is Good Bread (collected in "Magic Terror")
• 1997 Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff (collected in "Magic Terror")
• 1999 Pork Pie Hat (collected in "Magic Terror")
• 2010: A Special Place – The Heart of a Dark Matter (outtake from "A Dark Matter"){{Cite web |title=A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter by Peter Straub |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781605981024 |date=2010-05-10 |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}
• 2011: The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine{{Cite web |title=The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine by Peter Straub |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781596064416 |date=2011-10-03 |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}
• 1990/2012: The Buffalo Hunter: A Novella (originally collected in "Houses Without Doors" in 1990){{Cite web |title=The Buffalo Hunter |url=https://www.cemeterydance.com/the-buffalo-hunter.html |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Cemetery Dance Publications |language=en}}
• 2015: Perdido{{Cite web |title=Perdido |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/44631792-perdido-a-fragment |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.goodreads.com}}
• 2017: The Process (is a Process All its Own){{Cite web |title=The Process by Peter Straub |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/s/peter-straub/process.htm |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.fantasticfiction.com}}

• 1971: My Life in Pictures{{Cite web |title=SFE: Straub, Peter |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/straub_peter |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207230820/https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/straub_peter |archive-date=December 7, 2021 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=sf-encyclopedia.com}}{{Cite web |title=Peter Straub |url=https://www.wisconsinlitmap.com/peter-straub.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016093708/https://www.wisconsinlitmap.com/peter-straub.html |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=Wisconsin Literary Map |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Poetry {{!}} Peter Straub |url=http://peterstraub.net/works/poetry/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124223012/http://peterstraub.net/works/poetry/ |archive-date=January 24, 2021 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=peterstraub.net}}
• 1972: Ishmael{{Cite book |last=Straub |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S9tguAEACAAJ |title=Ishmael |date=1972 |publisher=Turret |isbn=978-0-85469-037-4 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Ishmael |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/2483027-ishmael-turret-booklet-second-series |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220906222623/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2475830.Ishmael |archive-date=September 6, 2022 |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=www.goodreads.com}}
• 1972: Open Air{{Cite book |last=Straub |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IeexAAAAIAAJ |title=Open Air |date=1972 |publisher=Irish University Press |isbn=978-0-7165-2176-1 |language=en}}
• 1983: Leeson Park and Belsize Square: Poems 1970 – 1975 (Collection){{Cite book |last=Straub |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rB1MAAAACAAJ |title=Leeson Park and Belsize Square: Poems 1970–1975 |date=1983 |publisher=Underwood-Miller |isbn=978-0-934438-91-9 |language=en}}

• 2006: Sides (collection of non-fiction essays){{Cite web |title=Sides by Peter Straub |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781587671654 |date=2007-06-04 |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}

• 2005: Peter Straub's Ghosts
• 2008: Poe's Children (2008){{Cite web |title=Poe's Children by Peter Straub: 9780307386403 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/174622/poes-children-by-peter-straub/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}
• 2009: American Fantastic Tales (Two Volumes) for the Library of America{{Cite web |title=American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps {{!}} Library of America |url=https://www.loa.org/books/308-american-fantastic-tales-terror-and-the-uncanny-from-poe-to-the-pulps |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.loa.org}}{{Cite web |title=American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now {{!}} Library of America |url=https://www.loa.org/books/309-american-fantastic-tales-terror-and-the-uncanny-from-the-1940s-to-now |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.loa.org}}

• 1984: Wild Animals (collects the novels Julia, If You Could See Me Now, and Under Venus){{Cite web |title=Peter Straub |url=https://www.wisconsinlitmap.com/peter-straub.html |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Wisconsin Literary Map |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Wild Animals – Peter Straub |url=http://peterstraub.net/putney-tyson-ridge/wild-animals/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=peterstraub.net}}

• 2010: The Skylark (an earlier, longer draft of A Dark Matter){{Cite web |last=VanderMeer |first=Jeff |date=2010-02-11 |title=A Dark Matter/Skylark Review at B&N Review |url=https://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2010/02/11/a-dark-matterskylark-review-at-bn-review/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Jeff VanderMeer |language=en-US}}

• Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography, Michael R. Collings{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/958084342 |title=The gothic worlds of Peter Straub {{!}} WorldCat.org |date=2016 |access-date=2022-09-07 |via=www.worldcat.org|oclc=958084342 }}{{Cite web |title=Hauntings |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/20817-hauntings-the-official-peter-straub-bibliography-biblio |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=www.goodreads.com}}
• Tibbetts, John C. The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub. Jefferson: McFarland Publishers, 2016{{Cite book |last1=Collings |first1=Michael R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f109GQAACAAJ |title=Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography |last2=Straub |first2=Peter |date=February 2000 |publisher=Overlook Connection Press |isbn=978-1-892950-16-1 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last1=Reyes |first1=Xavier Aldana |last2=Benshoff |first2=Harry M. |last3=Buckley |first3=Chloe Germaine |last4=Corstorphine |first4=Kevin |last5=Edwards |first5=Alicia |last6=Fennell |first6=Jack |last7=Greenaway |first7=Jonathan |last8=Haefele-Thomas |first8=Ardel |last9=Liggins |first9=Emma |last10=Murray |first10=Paul |last11=Nally |first11=Claire V. |last12=Ní Fhlainn |first12=Sorcha |last13=Rødtjer |first13=Rocío |last14=Sivyer |first14=Caleb |date=November 2018 |title=Reviews |journal=Gothic Studies |language=en |volume=20 |issue=1–2 |pages=382–413 |doi=10.7227/GS.0056 |s2cid=239786971 |issn=1362-7937|doi-access=free }}

• Full Circle (1977), based on Julia (1975){{Cite web |date=2002-09-14 |title=Full Circle (1977) |url=https://www.moriareviews.com/horror/full-circle-1977-haunting-of-julia.htm |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Moria |language=en-GB}}{{Citation |last=13 O'Clock |title=Flickers Of Fear – Jenny's Horror Movie Reviews: The Haunting of Julia (aka Full Circle) (1977) |date=2021-05-08 |url=http://archive.org/details/flickers-of-fear-haunting-of-julia-audio |access-date=2022-09-07}}
• Ghost Story (1981), based on Ghost Story (1979){{Cite web |last=Sprague |first=Mike |date=2020-12-18 |title=Horror History: GHOST STORY Was Released in 1981 |url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/364754/horror-history-ghost-story-was-released-in-1981/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Dread Central |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Overlooked & Underseen: Ghost Story (1981) |url=https://talkfilmsociety.com/columns/overlooked-underseen-ghost-story-1981 |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Talk Film Society |date=February 27, 2017 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Powell |first=Sally |date=2020-03-26 |title=Horror Movie Review: Ghost Story (1981) |url=https://www.gbhbl.com/horror-movie-review-ghost-story-1981/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life |language=en-GB}}
• The Talisman (2008 short), based on The Talisman{{Cite web |title=The Talisman (Short 2008) – IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1838716/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210185047/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1838716/ |archive-date=February 10, 2017 |access-date=July 1, 2018 |website=IMDb}}
• The Talisman (TBA), an upcoming miniseries based on The Talisman{{Cite web |title=The Talisman (TV Series) – IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384580/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727073609/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384580/ |archive-date=July 27, 2018 |access-date=July 1, 2018 |website=IMDb}}

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• {{Official website}}
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• [http://bookbanter.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/an-interview-with-peter-straub-march-2010/ BookBanter interviews Peter Straub (March, 2010)]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140107201141/http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/search.cgi?title=The+Talisman Database containing descriptive bibliography, publishing history, reviews, and literary criticism of King and Straub's The Talisman]
• [http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/Stra/StraubPeterFrancis-SusanBenjamin.shtml Genealogy of Peter Francis Straub]
• [http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2007/01/16/nyus_fales_collection.html NYU Press Release about Straub's papers]
• [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/30097/peter-straub/ Peter Straub Penguin Random House author page]
• [http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/straub/ Peter Straub Papers], Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University

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