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In the following excerpt, Cunningham praises Straub's Julia.
Most weeks Peter Straub's Julia would be a certain pieceleader, granted 'generous space to send its spine-freezing fri...
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In the following review, Stokes examines the thematic structure of Straub's Blue Rose Trilogy.
Toward the end of Koko, the first novel of Peter Straub's Blue Rose trilogy, a killer rende...
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In the following favorable review, Wilson provides a plot summary of The Throat.
With The Throat, Peter Straub concludes a trilogy that began with the novel Koko and continued with Mystery. He deftly ...
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In the following interview, Straub discusses the creative process and the evolution of his fiction.
Peter Straub lives as one would expect a writer to live: surrounded by books. As we ascend to his of...
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In the following essay, Ringnalda addresses the issue of "civilians" writing about the Vietnam combat experience.
Up to this point we've looked at three writers who spent a year &...
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In a mixed review of The Hellfire Club, Lehmann-Haupt praises the reach of the novel, but feels that the story occasionally gets away from the author.
In Peter Straub's latest horror novel, The...
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Below, De Haven provides a plot summary and favorable review of The Hellfire Club.
Peter Straub's novels (Ghost Story, Koko, The Throat, If You Could See Me Now) feel terrifyingly plausible til...
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In the following excerpt, Harrison compares The Hellfire Club to Dean Koontz's Intensity.
Pity the serial killer. He is now a cliché—killed this, slaughtered that. After The Colle...
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In the following essay, Bosky examines Straub's body of work.
Peter Straub's fiction is notable for its combination of unity and variety: the continuing exploration of specialized themes...
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In the following interview, Straub discusses the progress of his literary career.
First in Ghost Story and Shadowland, and now again in his new novel Floating Dragon, horror novelist Peter Straub has ...
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In the review below, Bold reviews Floating Dragon's style, which he describes as "cinematic."
Although Peter Straub makes references to writers such as Washington Irving and Wilki...
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In the following review, Small presents a favorable assessment of Floating Dragon.
A specter haunts the suburban paradise of Hampstead, Conn., and it isn't just crabgrass. A housewife gets slas...
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Below, Small interviews Straub and King about their collaboration on The Talisman and possible future projects.
For two years a dark mysterious mass lurked inside the word processors linked by phone t...
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In the essay below, Bosky examines the influence of Stephen King on the development of Straub's literary style.
Friendships between writers are always interesting, and that between Stephen King...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
[In Open Air Peter Straub] writes a poetry of assured, slow-moving, resonant statement, which is at best potent and at worst ponderous. Technically he i...
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Critical Essay by Thomas Sutcliffe
Like [Stephen] King, Peter Straub has a string of creepy best-sellers behind him, but he knows that he is a new arrival and knows, too, which club he wants to join&#...
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Critical Essay by Ronald Bryden
Marriages is the other side of the Jamesian tradition: an American chronicle of the quest for European richness, complexity and depth. For Owen, the Middle Western busi...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
[Marriages] is a pastiche' of almost every notable American novel written about Europe, from J. P. Donleavy's Ireland to Henry James...
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Critical Essay by John Mellors
Peter Straub's highly ingenious tale of Kensington gore [Julia] excited me only to sceptical comment…. Julia is American, married to an English barrister, ...
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Critical Essay by Michael Mason
It is very disheartening to come across the following phrase in the second sentence of Peter Straub's Julia: "his customer was precipitous and eccentric&#...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Keates
Wild-eyed backwoods weirdness indeed dominates If You Could See Me Now. Peter Straub's third novel initially deceives by the familiarity of its opening formula...
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Critical Essay by Peter Ackroyd
If You Could See Me Now works rather well. Its setting, a small farming community in the mid-West, is a great help. All Gothic novels must now streak against that parti...
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Critical Review by Valentine Cunningham
