Straub, Peter
Summary: In the 1960's campus guru, Spenser Mallon, demands sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body and the shattered souls of all who were present. Years later one man attempts to write a book to try to understand what happened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1990
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Summary: A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son--beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill--vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark's inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law's funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2003
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Straub, Peter
Summary: Willy Patrick finds her life intersecting with that of a stranger, Timothy Underhill, when she experiences an eerie event involving the death of her daughter and Timothy receives communications from dead people he had known in his youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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Summary: A boy, Keith Hayward, is drawn to an irresistible fascination with death and the taking of life. His Uncle Till, who has led a shadowy career as local celebrity "Ladykiller," recognizes his nephew's nature and tutors him in the art of doing ill without getting caught.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2010
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Summary: Peter Straub masterfully weaves horror and suspense into a love story unlike any other: the ballad of Ballard and Sandrine. Ballard and his considerably younger lover Sandrine have been brought together by a shared erotic obsession of the darkest kind. As they travel down a remote part of the Amazon River on a luxurious yacht, they spend their days indulging in their macabre pastime. Through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Straub, Peter
Summary: A collection of stories from the past twenty-five years includes "Mr. Club and Mr. Cuff," "The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine," and "Blue Rose."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2016
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Summary: "Nancy Underhill commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son--fifteen-year-old Mark--vanishes. The boy's uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before Nancy's suicide, Mark had become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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Summary: A son searches for his father before the father kills him in this spooky novel. The protagonist, jazz singer Ned Dunstant of Illinois, learns about his father from his mother on her deathbed. The father is a psychopathic killer with supernatural powers who considers his son a deadly danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012
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Summary: Tim Underhill comes back to his hometown to investigate the murder of a childhood friend's wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRSummary: A collection of forty-two stories of horror and fantasy from the 1940s to the present by a number of noted authors including Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, and Stephen King.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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Summary: Young Jack Sawyer is searching for the Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1984
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KINSummary: An anthology of modern horror fiction features tales from twenty-five masters of the genre, with such selections as Stephen King's "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet," Dan Chaon's "The Bees," and Peter Straub's "Little Red."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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Summary: Jack Sawyer, a twelve-year-old boy, begins a terrifying quest for the Talisman--for only the Talisman can save his dying mother and defeat their enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 1985
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Summary: Jack Sawyer, a retired homicide detective living in rural Wisconsin, doesn't remember his boyhood journey into the parallel universe called the Territories. Jack is recruited to help find a brutal serial killer who is stalking the region and whose methods resemble those of Albert Fish who committed murders thirty years earlier, but is there an even more malignant force at work?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012