Peter Straub’s Ghost Story is one of the great American haunted-house novels, but it is far more interested in memory than in mere haunting. On the surface, it offers the familiar pleasures of Gothic fiction: a remote town, winter weather, a creaking old mansion, and a presence that seems to gather force from every buried … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – Ghost Story by Peter Straub
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
“The Talisman,” Stephen King’s 1984 collaboration with Peter Straub, stands as a singular artifact in the horror–fantasy canon: a bildungsroman wrapped in a dark fairytale, threaded through with the tropes of quest mythology and King’s signature exploration of childhood peril. At its heart is twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer, whose journey from an American suburb into the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
The New Renaissance Mindset 