#peterstraub

[kingbookcollector]

The Talisman trilogy by Stephen King and Peter Straub, UK editions.

[sarah--adel]

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side. Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

"لا أحد يستطيع أن يحمي أحدًا من دناءات الحياة، أو أوجاعها. وكل ما بمقدورك أن تفعل هو ألا تدعها تشطرك نصفين، وأن تواصل المسير، حتى تعبر إلى الضفة الأخرى. هل من قوة تستطيع أن تهزم سحابة، أو قصيدة، أو حلم؟"

[tachyonpub]

as we creep closer to Halloween, ask yourself: What else is creeping around? Perhaps...right behind you? #books #bookstagram #horror #horrorbooks #themonstrous #monstrous #monsters #shortstories #scarystories #ellendatlow #halloweenreads #caitlinrkiernan #peterstraub #kimnewman #christopherfowler #octoberreads #spooktober #monster https://www.instagram.com/p/B3nIgxzgAPP/?igshid=4zj7deirgbqr

[frequentsee]

It was late afternoon, and the light had a molten, faintly reddish cast that suddenly reminded him of panels from comic books: fires and explosions and men falling through the air.

In the next moment this busy scene seemed to suppress beneath it another, more essential scene, every particle of which overflowed with an intense, unbearable beauty. It was as if great engines had kicked into life beneath the surface of what he could see.

from the book Mystery by Peter Straub

[blacktoolthing]

#NowReading #GhostStory by #PeterStraub #audiblebooks #audiobook# #brillianceaudio #chowdersociety (at Virginia)

[trishasportfolio]

“He saw that the being had nothing in it that was human and it was only dressed in the body it had once owned” Ghost Story by Peter Straub 

The Stench of Corruption

Glowing eyes, lip curled up, vacant smile

Pure evil within, a twisted mind

A cursed life, nothing to live for - the damned

The smell of death, as they approach, choking you

You are frozen and cannot run at the sight of his dishevelled clothes and rotten corpse

You are disgusted but intrigued, lured by his fateful stare, his eyes glimmering like the moonlight on the ocean

He draws you in only to suck you dry

To devour and expel your soul to the darkness within

Pure destruction and chaos at its whim

Revulsion coursing through your veins

As you look at its face, smiling as it feeds

Gagging at the thought of the decay that has touched you, fed on you, used you

Wishing you could forget the spell that let you to your fate

Begging to be free, to release you from this dying state. 

Trisha Hilton

2017 

[papyrusparanormal]

Stole this out of my shop and digging right in. #sorrynotsorry there's no new listings today, but sometimes you just gotta say wtf. #amreading #ghoststory #peterstraub #horrorbooks #70s #firstedition #lacreeperielibrary

[kingbookcollector]

The Talisman 3 by Stephen King and Peter Straub.

After a number of The Dark Tower hints, King has finally confirmed that a third instalment of The Talisman is in the works.

He added - “Peter Straub had a terrific idea before passing away. Dual credit, as on THE TALISMAN and BLACK HOUSE. But as always, I can never be sure a book will be done until it is. This one has a long way to go.”