Poe's Children: The New Horror

Peter Straub

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story--and 8-time Bram Stoker Award winner--gathers 24 bone-chilling, nail-biting, frightfully imaginative stories that represent the best of contemporary horror writing.

"Revelatory.... A remarkably consistent, frequently unsettling book." --The Washington Post

"[Straub] collects the best scary short stories out there." --Time

Dan Chaon "The Bees"
Elizabeth Hand "Cleopatra Brimstone"
Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem "The Man on the Ceiling"
M. John Harrison "The Great God Plan"
Ramsey Campbell "The Voice of the Beach"
Brian Evenson "Body"
Kelly Link "Louise's Ghost"
Jonathan Carroll "The Sadness of Detail"
M. Rickert "Leda"
Thomas Tessier "In Praise of Folly"
David J. Schow "Plot Twist"
Glen Hirshberg "The Two Sams"
Thomas Ligotti "Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story"
Benjamin Percy "Unearthed"
Bradford Morrow "Gardener of Heart"
Peter Straub "Little Red's Tango"
Stephen King "The Ballad of a Flexible Bullet"
Joe Hill "20th Century Ghost"
Ellen Klages "The Green Glass Sea"
Tia V. Travis "The Kiss"
Graham Joyce "Black Dust"
John Crowley "Missolonghi 1824"
Rosalind Palermo Stevenson "Insect Dreams"

Book Details

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date: Oct 6th, 2009
Pages: 608
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.24in - 1.06in - 0.99lb
EAN: 9780307386403
Categories: • Horror - General• Anthologies (multiple authors)• Thrillers - Psychological

About the Author

PETER STRAUB is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. In the Night Room and Lost Boy, Lost Girl are winners of the Bram Stoker Award, as is his collection 5 Stories. Straub is the editor of numerous anthologies, including the two-volume American Fantastic Tale from the Library of America. He died in 2022.

Praise for this book

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year

"Revelatory. . . . A remarkably consistent, frequently unsettling book." --The Washington Post

"Straub is uniquely qualified to hold forth on what makes a good horror story. . . . [He] collects the best scary short stories out there." --Time