Order of Peter Straub Books

Peter Straub is an American writer known for his horror novels and poetry. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award. Born to a salesman and a nurse, his parents hoped he would pursue a career as an athlete, doctor, or minister, but his true passion was learning to read, which he accomplished quickly. After a near-fatal car accident that required surgeries and a year off from school, during which he used a wheelchair, he turned to reading even more. Eventually, he attended the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated with honors in English, and later earned his MA from Columbia. Straub published his first work, a poetry collection titled Ishmael, in 1972, followed by his debut novel, Marriages, the following year. Below is a list of Peter Straub’s books in the order of their original release:

Peter Straub became a published novelist in 1972 with the novel Ishmael. Below is a list of Peter Straub's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King	(1982)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Horror Factor 7	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Picador Book of the New Gothic	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Best New Horror 2	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fourth Annual Collection	(1991)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
An Exploration of Horror: Foundations of Fear	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Best New Horror 4	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Foundations of Fear: Volume I: Shadows of Fear	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Giant Book of Terror	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Black Thorn, White Rose	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Murder on the Run	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dark Terrors 5	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
October Dreams	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Opening Shots, Vol. II	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Wavedancer Benefit: A Tribute to Frank Muller	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists	(2002)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Poe's Children	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best of Cemetery Dance II	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
American Fantastic Tales	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
American Fantastic Tales	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shivers VI	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Hint Fiction	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Happily Ever After	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rage Against the Night	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
xo Orpheus	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mister October, Volume II	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Turn Down the Lights	(2013)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Best New Horror #26	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Monstrous	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Beauty of Death	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Detours	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best American Mystery Stories 2017	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Beauty of Death, Vol. 2	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mythic Journeys	(2019)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Dark Screams: Volume Three	(2021)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Voices in the Dark	(2022)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Penumbra No. 4 : A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism	(2023)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Blue Rose Trilogy Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Koko	(1988)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mystery	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Throat	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Criminal Records Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Pork Pie Hat	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Talisman Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Talisman	(1984)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Black House	(2001)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Marriages	(1973)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Julia / Full Circle	(1975)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
If You Could See Me Now	(1977)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ghost Story	(1979)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Shadowland	(1980)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Floating Dragon	(1982)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The General's Wife	(1982)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Under Venus	(1985)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Hellfire Club	(1996)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mr. X	(1999)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lost Boy Lost Girl	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
In The Night Room	(2003)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Skylark	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Dark Matter	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Mrs. God	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ghost Village	(1993)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Fee	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff	(1998)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Special Place	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine	(2011)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Buffalo Hunter	(2012)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Perdido	(2015)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Process (is a Process All Its Own)	(2017)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Ishmael	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Open Air	(1972)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Leeson Park and Belsize Square	(1983)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Houses Without Doors	(1990)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Horror Writers Association Presents Peter Straub's Ghosts	(1995)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Magic Terror	(2000)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Little Blue Book of Rose Stories	(2005)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
5 Stories	(2008)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Interior Darkness	(2016)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Graphic Novels Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
The Talisman: Road of Trials (With: Stephen King,Tony Shasteen)	(2009)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Green Woman (With: Michael Easton)	(2010)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Foundations of Fear Anthology Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
An Exploration of Horror: Foundations of Fear (With: George R.R. Martin,Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,Richard Matheson,Daphne du Maurier,Clive Barker,Carlos Fuentes,Arthur Machen,Gerald Durrell)	(1992)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Foundations of Fear: Volume I: Shadows of Fear (With: Robert A. Heinlein,David G. Hartwell,H.P. Lovecraft,Daphne du Maurier,Arthur Machen,Jean Ray,Harriet Prescott Spofford)	(1994)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title	Year	Amazon USA	Amazon UK
Sides	(2007)	Buy on Amazon.com	Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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