Peter Straub Summary

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 ... Read more

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 deft... Read more

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 yea... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 the... Read more

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 Wi... Read more

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 phon... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 bus... Read more

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,... Read more

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 formul... Read more