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	Locus Online: Peter Straub interview excerpts
		Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, earned degrees in English from the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University, and taught English at his former high school for three years.
		Straub collaborated with Stephen King on The Talisman (1984) and sequel Black House (2001).
		Straub was named a World Horror Grandmaster in 1997.
	www.locusmag.com /2006/Issues/07Straub.html (966 words)

	Peter Straub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Francis Straub, born March 2, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, is a writer of fiction and poetry, best known as a horror-genre author.
		Following a brief fallow period, Straub re-emerged in 1988 with Koko, a nonsupernatural (though often horrific) Vietnam novel.
		In 1996, Straub returned to occult themes with The Hellfire Club, which applied the lessons learned in the Blue Rose period to a novel of the supernatural, followed by Mr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Straub (351 words)

	The History of Straub Beer - St. Marys, PA
		But Peter aspired to be a brewer and in nineteenth century Europe there was little chance for one to escape the confines of his trade.
		Peter admired his employers' pledge to forfeit $1,000 if any adulteration was found in their beer, and as he honed his brewing skills to a sharp edge, he adhered faithfully to this promise.
		It was then that Straub Beer was born; a smooth, old-world beer brewed to the same standards of quality and freshness as all the Straub beers since 1831.
	www.straubbeer.com /history.htm (385 words)

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		Peter Straub wrote one bestseller after another in the '70s and '80s, and won critical awards while doing so.
		Straub begins to show us a bedroom and a woman's voice calls out, "Oh, is it a mess again?" Susan Straub, cheery and slim, makes an appearance to say hello.
		Straub's new novel reaffirms his standing as the most sophisticated and, along with King, most persuasive of contemporary novelists of the dark fantastic.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /bernstein/syllabi/readings/straub-pw/index_asp.htm (3630 words)

	peter straub ... at MSN Shopping
		Straub's devotees will be swept away by the potency of this collection and the uninitiated are in for a startling--if occasionally harrowing--literary treat.
		Peter Straub's classic bestseller is a work of "superb horror" "(The Washington Post Book World) that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time -- and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.
		For example, though John Crowley and Jonathan Carroll have massive underground reputations, and Peter Straub has written two books with Stephen King and other bestselling novels such as Ghost Story, Koko, and The Throat, many if not most readers of Conjunctions will be unfamiliar with their work.
	shopping.msn.com /results/shp/?text=peter+straub+... (898 words)

	Bookins: Throat - Peter-Straub - 0451179188
		This tale of Timothy Underhill(the 'secret' hero of "Koko", as Straub calls him) investigating a series of murders in a large midwestern city--murders which seem to be related to a string of killings that occurred decades before--owes as much to Raymond Chandler as it does to Edgar Allan Poe.
		Straub understands something about the subtle nature of evil that the rest of us are too naive to grasp.
		That Peter Straub is compelled to use his astounding talents in a probe of the dark side makes for chilling reading, because he is more than smart enough to make you believe.
	www.bookins.com /bookdetails/Throat/Peter-Straub/0451179188/423009/MM/desc (1007 words)

	Peter Straub interview - infinity plus non-fiction
		What Straub has managed to do, as Horror has gone through its cycles of deterioration and analepsis, is remain true to a personal vision; and has had the savvy to work on novels that can be appreciated by people who only read either inside or outside the genres.
		Straub's overtly supernatural and/or fantastical fiction was written, also, over a period of approximately ten years, though as I say, the periods were not successive; there were overlaps (and the timescales are flukes anyway, given the publication schedules of most publishing houses, but nevertheless).
		Straub's enthusiasm for jazz is well-known (and I'd love to see his collection); there are references to jazz that run like veins through his body of work - even in The Talisman.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/intstraub.htm (4067 words)

	Peter Straub Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Peter Straub is associated with three things: the early novel Ghost Story, now something of a modern horror classic; his subsequent Vietnam-flavoured mysteries, including Koko and The Throat; and his co-authorship of The Talisman and its sequel Black House, with Stephen King.
		Straub manages to pack a lot of convoluted plotting into a relatively short novel (this one will not hold your door open on a windy day) and to draw on new elements involving computers and crime.
		Straub to move from conventionally hair-raising effects (“the wooden surface felt furry and scratchy, and softer than it should have been, like the hide of a long-dead bear”) to the more happening teenage world of cyberscares.
	lostboylostgirl.com /press.html (2610 words)

	The Straub Connection
		Peter's office on the third floor of his house was the size of my whole loft on Grand Street, and his air conditioning and his sound system always worked.
		Straub had the misfortune to grow up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a city I too had the bad judgment to inhabit for four increasingly horrible years (I moved one week after the arrest of Jeffrey Dahmer).
		Again, Peter Straub's comments, this time on The Curse of Millhaven, were forwarded to someone who showed them to Nick Caves manager, who showed them to Nick himself.
	www.angelfire.com /music/angelindevilsboots/talk/articles/leaves/straub.html (1226 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Peter Straub
		Though never quite managing to penetrate the public consciousness to the extent that his contemporary Stephen King has, Peter Straub can still be considered one of the most commercially (and critically) successful genre writers of the past thirty years.
		Peter Francis Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the second of March 1943, the son of a salesman and a nurse.
		Straub had long been interested in writing, and during his postgraduate studies spent much of his time producing poetry influenced by poets such as Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5767 (535 words)

	The Uses of Horror - 10/6/2003 - Publishers Weekly
		Now Straub has written lost boy lost girl, a haunted house tale that some are calling the best and most accessible novel of his career—and the author and his publishing team are planning to make it a success.
		Straub begins to show us a bedroom and a woman's voice calls out, "Oh, is it a mess again?" Susan Straub, cheery and slim, makes an appearance to say hello.
		Straub's new novel reaffirms his standing as the most sophisticated and, along with King, most persuasive of contemporary novelists of the dark fantastic.
	www.publishersweekly.com /index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA327660&publication=publishersweekly (3689 words)

	Bookins: Shadowland - Peter-Straub - 0425050564
		Shadowland is Straub's tip of his hat to the genre of dark fairy tales, magic (and magick) and the gritty fantasyland we all love deep down in our souls.
		Shadowland is a de rigueur stopover for anyone serious about the literary works of Peter Straub, and it's fairly readable and sound for its genre, but as far as recommending it to the average reader...there I'd hesitate.
		Straub is very effective in creating this fantastical setting, and in initiating the characters, and the reader, into his world of magic.
	www.bookins.com /bookdetails/Shadowland/Peter-Straub/0425050564/158487/MM/desc (1512 words)

	PETER STRAUB INTERVIEW
		STRAUB: At other times in my life I'd had ideas for short stories, but I never wrote them, because I had the complete idea and it seemed to me too easy and not worthwhile.
		STRAUB: No. The origin of that book was the idea of men having to return to the Far East to deal with one of their old comrades who has gone seriously off the track.
		STRAUB: I came to write The Throat be cause I realized that there had been these Blue Rose murders and that, while we knew who didn't do them, we still didn't know who did.
	www.sff.net /people/mberry/straub.htp (4044 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: lost boy lost girl
		Peter Straub was born in 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
		Tim Underhill is not close to his brother who still lives in their home town, but he can't fail to return to help when his brother's wife commits suicide and their son mysteriously disappears, perhaps a victim of a serial killer.
		A conventional murder mystery involves a crime, a puzzle about who the perpetrator is, a set of clues, and perhaps most importantly, a cast of suspects limited to characters with prominent parts in the story.
	www.sfsite.com /11a/lb163.htm (805 words)

	Peter Straub - The Overlook Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Straub changed his mind and these were deleted from being part of the novel.
		Straub has published, unpublished, and all the rare and unusual pieces from this author's life's work.
		Straub will be involved every step of the way to make sure that the details and facts are correct.
	www.overlookconnection.com /ocstraub.htm (1968 words)

	Peter Straub Interview
		Peter: I was born in Milwaukee and lived there for the first 18 years of my life.
		Peter: Well, either PTR is my oldest friend and harshest critic, or he's someone I made up to make fun of a certain restrictive point of view.
		Peter: The Roundtable is a congenial group of mystery writers that meets once a month in an upstairs room overr a restaurant to have dinner and talk about our current projects.
	www.mysteryone.com /PeterStraubInterview.htm (1194 words)

	Amazon.com: Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Books: Peter Straub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Straub remains a master of place and character; his insight into teens, in particular, is astonishingly astute.
		As with all of Straub's books, the point of view shifts focus and the timeline is disjointed - jumping from the past to the present, seemingly at random - yet it all serves to create a rich and twisted tapestry that leads to an emotionally rewarding conclusion.
		Straub writes an engrossing book dealing with a boy's disappearance shortly after his mother's suicide (in the context of a pedophilic serial killer's targeting of teenage boys) and his family's response to these events.
	www.amazon.com /Lost-Boy-Girl-Peter-Straub/dp/1400060923 (2472 words)

	Peter Straub \| Interviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		Peter Straub is often regarded as one of the masters of horror and fright fiction.
		Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee in March 1943, and knew at 16 that he wanted to be a novelist.
		In a real way, the past does not exist; what was hidden there demands to be made known and it speaks in code, in aberrations of behavior, in repetitions of behavior, in the way people speak, the words they use and the things they see out of the corner of their eyes.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/interviews/sfw887.html (1370 words)

	Peter Straub
		Peter Francis Straub, born March 2, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, is a writer of fiction and poetry, best known as a horror-genre author.
		In 1996, Straub returned to occult themes with The Hellfire Club, which applied the lessons learned in the Blue Rose period to a novel of the supernatural, followed by Mr.
		Rumors continue to circulate that King and Straub may collaborate on a final novel, finishing the tale of Jack Sawyer and the Talisman.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Peter_Straub.php (391 words)

	Kev's Stephen King & Peter Straub House of Black House
		Straub’s books may take a little more patience than the often fast-paced land of Stephen King, but I know from experience that the wait is worth it.
		While Straub had (fairly) recently said that he and King had moved in different directions to the extent that they would be unlikely to collaborate again, news to the contrary appeared late last year on the internet grapevine.
		Straub and King have signed a multimillion-dollar deal for the still-untitled novel, which will be published by Random House and is expected to come out in 2001.
	www.members.tripod.com /~charnelhouse/blackhouse.html (3427 words)

	Peter Straub Criticism
		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—the one to which Hawthorne, Poe and Henry James belong.
		Peter Straub's highly ingenious tale of Kensington gore [Julia] excited me only to sceptical comment….
		Peter Straub's third novel initially deceives by the familiarity of its opening formula: the bourgeois narrator is pitched against a conspiracy of silence among inhabitants of a farming community rocked by a sequence of killings.
	www.bookrags.com /criticisms/Peter_Straub (839 words)

	Peter Straub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Straub’s prose has a tart clarity that allows him to delineate the muddiness of life with great economy and richness.
		On her deathbed, she imparts to him the name of his long absent father and warns him that he is in grave danger: Despite her foreboding he embarks on a search through Edgerton's past for the truth behind his own identity and that of his entirely fantastic family.
		Peter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was educated at the University of Wisconsin, Columbia University and University College, Dublin.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/peterstraub.html (1089 words)

	Amazon.com: In the Night Room: Books: Peter Straub (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Like the jazz musicians he favors, Peter Straub has always displayed a penchant for digging deep into his art, examining the tales he tells from several angles, experimenting with their basic components and rhythm.
		Straub toys with several compelling notions in this novel, among them the "Borgesian" idea of the "real book" ("The one you were supposed to write, only you screwed it up."), a creator's love for his creations, and the power of fiction to make sense of reality.
		Peter Straub has once again written a marvelous metafictional work that blurs the line between reality and fiction, blending storylines to create a tapestry that's confounding and enlightening all at once.
	www.amazon.com /Night-Room-Peter-Straub/dp/1400062527 (3463 words)

	Peter Straub: Writing Fantasy and Horror Monday - OCT 24, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Peter Straub: Writing Fantasy and Horror 6:30 PM Peter Straub is a novelist, horror writer, story writer, anthologist, and poet.
		Straub’s newest book, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, which recently received a glowing review in The New York Times, is considered the best book on the great H.P. Lovecraft ever compiled.
		Straub holds a Master’s degree from Columbia University, and is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, three Bram Stroker Awards, and two World Fantasy Awards.
	www.hcny.com /cgis/ho_show_event_details.pl?id=48810 (144 words)

	lost boy lost girl - Reviewed by Kevin McGowin - Eclectica Magazine v8n3
		It's highly distilled, and Straub is often funny and often very subtle, but what he's distilling and what he's being subtle about are the problematic issues here.
		This is the only way to show the speciousness of the original, and Straub fails because smug and curmudgeonly observations by his narrator do not spark the blandness of the novel's narrative into a rollicking scherzo.
		But while Straub isn't the one saying this book is a masterpiece, a good deal of the negatives about this book are about him.
	www.eclectica.org /v8n3/mcgowin_straub.html (1267 words)

	Peter Straub - SCIFIPEDIA
		Peter Straub (Peter Francis Straub) (March 2, 1943-) American writer.
		Peter Straub's often complex work has, over a 30-year career in dark fantasy, always been written with elegance and style.
		Straub continues to add even more spectacular entries to an already impressive body of work.
	scifipedia.scifi.com /index.php/Peter_Straub (390 words)

	Peter Straub - The Throat
		But what Straub has done is not only a tribute, but a work of art out of the detective novel.
		And Straub does his job wonderfully, for one portrait is completed by other, or, at least, reflected.
		Straub even uses an old phrase from his "Ghost Story".And the horror scenes are extremely well done (I'll always remember the vanished town in Vietnam, as a voice tells me "ghost are always hungry") But, in the end, ghosts motivate the characters, metaphorically and literally speaking.
	members.tripod.com /the_iron_dragon/id63.html (546 words)

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