Peter Straub Livres

Il y a vingt ans, Jack a survécu à l'enfer des Territoires. Aujourd'hui, pour l'amour d'une femme et la vie d'un enfant, il va franchir une nouvelle fois la frontière... French Landing, paisible bourgade du Wisconsin, est terrorisée par un serial killer. Désemparé, le shérif local fait appel à son ami Jack Sawyer, un ancien flic d'Hollywood. L'enquête conduit Jack jusqu'à une maison que l'on dit hantée, nichée au fond des bois. L'endroit réveille en sa mémoire les échos d'un monde parallèle qu'il lui semble avoir déjà visité : il y a vingt ans, pour sauver sa mère, Jack a pénétré la contrée magique et terrifiante des Territoires. Aujourd'hui, il a tout oublié. Et il a peur de son passé. Très vite, d'étranges messages lui parviennent et les réminiscences se font souvenirs. L'enquête de police se change alors en quête fantastique... Il ne s'agit plus de démasquer un serial killer mais d'arracher un enfant des mains du souverain des Territoires, le Roi écarlate. Pour Tyler, petit garçon aux cheveux blonds et Judy, la mère de celui-ci, Jack est prêt à mourir - pire, à replonger dans les Territoires...

Jack Sawyer, douze ans, découvre une porte vers les Territoires, un monde parallèle féerique et dangereux. Il part à la recherche du Talisman pour sauver sa mère et la reine des Territoires. En affrontant la peur et la solitude, Jack poursuit son chemin vers la victoire du Bien sur le Mal.

La guerre avait éveillé en lui le monstre. Maintenant il tuait pour cacher ses crimes... Mais toujours avec le même plaisir. Le mot " koko " gribouillé sur une carte à jouer...C'est la signature du tueur. Un mot qui va projeter quatre amis quinze ans en arrière, en plein cauchemar du Vietnam. Koko, ils le savent est l'un des leurs, un des participants à ce terrible massacre d'un village qu'aucun d'eux n'a pu oublier. Ils décident donc de retrouver Koko avant la police, non seulement pour l'empêcher de commettre de nouveaux crimes, mais aussi dans l'espoir de l'arracher à la folie. Ce qui risque bien de s'avérer une mission impossible...

Meurtres en cavale : onze suspenses inédits, par les plus grands maîtres du genre aux Etats-Unis, réunis autour de Mary Higgins Clark et de son fameux club, The Adams Round Table.

Dream's youngest sister, the loopy Delirium, convinces him to go on a quest for their missing brother, Destruction. But Dream may learn that the cost of finding his prodigal sibling is more than he can bear. collecting The Sandman #41–49

The spellbinding saga of The Talisman is now a stunning graphic novel, vividly illustrated by artist Tony Shasteen. Here’s a bold new look at the classic tale of treachery and betrayal that could only have sprung from the imaginations of master storytellers Stephen King and Peter Straub.In a run-down amusement park on a desolate beach in New Hampshire, thirteen-year-old Jack Sawyer is about to learn some hard truths—about his father’s death, about why he and his mother are on the run from his sinister uncle Morgan, and about the real nature of the mysterious realm Jack once called the Daydreams. Now, with help from his newfound friend Speedy Parker, this young man will reclaim his identity as Travellin Jack and make his first foray back into the Territories to retrieve the magical Talisman, an object of immense cosmic significance. Yet even more important to Jack, the Talisman holds the key to saving his mother’s life. In the Terrorities, where monsters lurk, evil watches, and an unbelievably precious prize awaits, Jack embarks upon a desperate quest to fulfill a destiny he never sought but cannot escape.The Talisman: The Road of Trials comprises Issues 0 through 5 of the thrilling comic book series and features original, never-before-seen material, including interviews and early sketches. Be warned: Once you’ve seen the Talisman, nothing will ever be the same.

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories. When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that is what they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As that message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it. From the Hardcover edition.

This anthology contains: Blue Rose by Peter Straub The Monster by Joe Haldeman Lacunae by Karl Edward Wagner Pale Trembling Youth by W.H. Pugmire and Jessica Amanda Salmonson Muzak for Torso Murders by Marc Laidlaw Goodbye, Dark Love by Roberta Lannes Out There by Charles L. Grant Little Cruelties by Steve Rasnic Tem The Man with the Hoe by George Clayton Johnson They're Coming for You by Les Daniels Vampire by Richard Christian Matheson Lapses by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro The Final Stone by William F. Nolan Irrelativity by Nicholas Royle The Hands by Ramsey Campbell The Bell by Ray Russell Lost Souls by Clive Barker Reaper by Robert Bloch The Transfer by Edward Bryant Pain by Whitley Strieber

In life, not every sin goes unpunished.GHOST STORYFor four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder.

Straub completes the Blue Rose trilogy with this searing novel of psychological terror. Tim Underhill and the brilliant and reclusive Tom Pasmore court ultimate destruction as they dare to look back to a dark past that holds the secret of evil which signs its name Blue Rose.