#peter straub

[land-of-reads]

Starting Shadowland by Peter Straub. Anyone have any idea wtf the cover picture is?

[charnel-grounds]

“I thought you'd be dying to see me”

Ghost Story (1981)

[4lung]

i know nobody cares, but i just need to sperg out about how i finally own at least 1 printed version of every story my favorite author ever wrote (w/ the exception of one unfinished novella which is stupidly rare), & now im excited to read them all in chronological order :D

(i also have his book of poetry from the 70s, his collection of random nonfiction essays from the 00's, and a novel by his daughter, which i'll read once i run out of her dad's books)

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Peter Straub - Full Circle - Corgi - 1977

[utterlynormalhuman]

Reading for the weekend

[dorian-dawes]

Gender Terror in Peter Straub's Koko | Dorian Dawes

Gender Terror in Peter Straub's Koko by Dorian Dawes on Patreon. Join Dorian Dawes's community for exclusive content and updates.

Reading this book as a trans person is very strange. I am nonbinary and nondysphoric and visibly gender non-conforming. I have long hair and wear makeup often and dress in feminine clothing. I exist at a crossroads between male and female. I am often confused for a cis female, but even more often find myself leaving cis people just confused. How people perceive my gender is how I am treated. Queer people get to experience the consequences of failing to perform masculinity along with the sexism reserved towards cis women at the same time. Fun, right?

That’s part of what makes Koko such an impressive undertaking. It’s why I think queer people may glean more from this book than straight audiences, and maybe more from this book than Straub intended. I can see the strings of patriarchy, sexism, and queerphobia coalescing into a web of darkness. Vietnam is the background, but the horror here is patriarchy. The horror is gender itself. 

Straightness has to be one of the most brittle things imaginable. Masculinity even more so. It must be strictly enforced. You can be punished for not upholding it properly.

My essay on the Gender Terror in Peter Straub's Koko

[countesspetofi]

Ghost Story (1981) dir. John Irvin

[stephenkingporn]

This is Stephen King and Peter Straub's epic and unforgettable finale to the Talisman Trilogy (including the novels The Talisman and Black House) and a wrapping up of the fate of the worlds in King's iconic, fiercely beloved Dark Tower epic. It is also a wonderful stand-alone novel, that will appeal to new readers, as well as to King's Constant Reader.

OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE is the story of Jack Sawyer, whom readers first met when he was twelve, crossing America and 'the territories' to save his mother's life, and met again in Black House, where Jack faces a child killer and the Crimson King (among other evils). In OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE Jack must stop a rampaging gang of infected teenagers from America-side, and the forces of the mysterious Gullet at the edge of Mid-World, before it destroys our world and all worlds. Jack is older now; his Ka-tet is fraying; and his task, nearly impossible.