FIVE
must be the charm, because PS has done it again. His new collection of stories,
Five Stories (Overlook, 2007) has garnered another prestigious Stoker
Award,
which look so distinguished on his chimneypiece in the Straub manse.
Peter
Straub has two new books on the horizon! POE’S CHILDREN is an
anthology which will be published by Doubleday in October 2008. THE
SKYLARK is a new novel to be published by Doubleday in the spring of 2009.
Oh
for the love of the printed word! This month Peter will receive the Barnes & Noble
Writers for Writers Award, which is given annually to three people by the august
organization Poets & Writers. Besides his most worthy
self, the winners this year are A. M. Homes and Toi Derracotte. The Gala Banquet
will be held at the Battery Park Ritz-Carlton on March 18, 2008.
A
wonderful collection of tales by the horror genre’s most literate and endlessly
inventive writers.
“Little Red’s Tango” incorporates a vampire story, miracle legends, a
saint’s
legend, an epistle, beatitudes, and jazz minutiae within a contemporary faux-gospel.
“Lapland, or Film Noir” is a journey to place of the dark, paranoid crime
movies made in Los Angeles between 1948 and 1956, which Straub calls “one of
the most compelling periods in American film history.”
“The Geezers” is a fascinating exercise in withholding everything that
might explain what the protagonists and their friends were up to, and describing
instead their reactions to the consequences of the unstated actions. It is Straub
at his best.
“Donald Duck” is a surreal study of how a family can be changed irrevocably
by the decisions of one reckless member. The final tale, “Mr. Aickman’s
Air Rifle” reveals
itself in clever homage as Straub deliberately assumes the mantle of “a great
and respected elder, with felonious intentions.”
This is the first time these stories have been collected, and represent a welcome
addition to the Straub’s body of work.
Order
Peter Straub’s roundtable discussion on horror with John Clute and Gary K.
Wolfe in Locus postage free (save $2.50) or completely free with a subscription!
SIDES,
a delightful collection of introductions, afterwords, introductions, essays
by Straub—as well as the collected works of PS’s grumpy alter ego, Mr
Putney Tyson Ridge—is available from Cemetary
Dance.
New
photos added! See some behind-the-scenes
shots of Peter during the
filming of his appearance on ABC’s One
Life To Live.
Take a stroll through New York’s
storied Central Park via Peter’s vibrant
new images, shot one mysterious morning.
On
June 17, 2006, Peter Straub was honored with the prestigous Life
Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association at the 2006
Stoker Banquet in Newark,
New Jersey.
NEWSFLASH:
A Star is Born
Dateline: New York City
Our own Peter Straub will soon conquer yet another medium with his special guest appearance on long-running soap, One Life to Live, as Pete Braust (a retired Atlantic City cop). He’ll grace three scenes of an episode scheduled for broadcast at 2:00 on Monday, 27 March. Peter was offered this delightful diversion because of his friendship with Michael Easton, who plays Lt. John McBain on the award-winning daytime serial drama. Rumour has it that Mr. Braust may well become something of a recurring character.
Straub’s
new novel, IN THE NIGHT ROOM, is out now!
Read the first chapter here.
PS’s devilishly funny, trenchant liner notes for LD & the New Criticism’s debut TRAGIC REALISM (on Darla) are getting great press - sometimes even better than the sad little disc itself. Read this and... laugh yourself silly. Then check out what this lovely gentleman has to say at erasingclouds.com. Shall we dance?
Peter
Straub will be Toastmaster at the World
Horror Convention in San Francisco, May 11-14, 2006.
New
photos are available of the recent Peter
Straub Symposium and National
Book Festival in the photo section.
Peter
Straub continues to mourn the loss of his brother-in-arms, Putney
Tyson Ridge (deceased).
More to follow...