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Poe's Children

Poe's Children

By,&
HorrorLiterary Fiction
Pages
592
Published
2008
Language
English

Synopsis

Peter Straub gathers two dozen stories from writers he sees as the true heirs of Edgar Allan Poe — favoring imaginative, evocative unease over genre horror's predictable beats. Contributors include Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Carroll, Dan Chaon, Elizabeth Hand and Thomas Ligotti, alongside Straub's own "Little Red's Tango," a tribute to the strange, generous power of storytelling itself.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

DarkMysteriousAtmospheric

Genres

Horror Literary Fiction

Authors

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Peter Straub

Peter Straub (1943-2022) was an American novelist and poet who wrote horror and supernatural fiction with a literary bent. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he studied at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University and broke through with Julia (1975) and Ghost Story (1979). His Blue Rose novels, Koko, Mystery and The Throat, follow a group of Vietnam veterans and a series of murders. He co-wrote The Talisman (1984) and its sequel Black House (2001) with Stephen King. He also edited the Libra...