Floating Dragon pdf

彼得·施特劳布出生在威斯康星州密尔沃基，是戈登·安东尼·施特劳布和埃尔文娜 (Nilsestuen) 施特劳布的儿子。
施特劳布从小就如饥似渴地读书，但他的文学兴趣并没有让他的父母满意。他的父亲希望他长大后成为一名职业运动员，而他的母亲则希望他成为一名路德教会的牧师。他获得奖学金就读于密尔沃基乡村日间学校，并在此期间开始写作。
Straub 于 1965 年在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校获得英语荣誉学士学位，一年后在哥伦比亚大学获得硕士学位。他在密尔沃基乡村日短暂教过英语，然后于 1969 年移居爱尔兰都柏林攻读博士学位，并开始专业写作
在 1970 年代中期两次尝试文学主流小说（“婚姻”和“维纳斯之下”）取得了喜忧参半的成功之后，施特劳布首次涉足超自然现象的“朱莉娅”（1975 年）。然后他写了“如果你现在能看到我”（1977 年），并以他的第五部小说“幽灵故事”（1979 年）引起了公众的广泛关注，该小说取得了巨大的成功，后来被改编成 1981 年的电影。随后的几部恐怖小说越来越成功，包括《护身符》和《黑屋》，这是与斯特劳布的老朋友兼作家斯蒂芬·金合作的两部奇幻恐怖小说。
除了他的许多小说外，他生前还出版了几部诗歌作品。
1966 年，斯特劳布与苏珊·比特克结婚。他们有两个孩子。他们的女儿 Emma Straub 也是一位小说家。这家人从 1969 年到 1972 年住在都柏林，从 1972 年到 1979 年住在伦敦，从 1979 年起住在纽约市地区。
斯特劳布于 2022 年 9 月 4 日因髋部骨折并发症去世，享年 79 岁。在他去世时，他和他的妻子住在布鲁克林（纽约市）。

Floating Dragon pdf 彼得·斯特劳布

An adulterous housewife named Stony Friedgood picks up a man at a bar but is brutally murdered by the patron. At the same time her husband Leo, working with the Department of Defense, is involved in the cover up of DRG-16, a nerve gas that escapes its containment and rushes into the town of Hampstead. Leo works to stop the public from finding out about the gas that leaked, which already killed three men at the lab. When he arrives home the gas is above Hampstead, causing deaths and hallucinations. Meanwhile, the descendants of the founders of Hampstead have returned. Richard Allbee, a former child actor turned architect with a wife and child on the way, returns from London and is plagued by dreams and visions of his former co-actor Billy Bentley, who died: Graham Williams, an old historian who murdered a serial killer in his past and discovered a cycle of evil in the town that arrives every thirty years in the name of a monster named the Dragon; Patsy McCloud, the abused wife of Les McCloud who has psychic abilities, and Tabby Smithfield, a young child with an alcoholic father who has similar abilities like Patsy. The four connect with each other and learn from Graham that an older evil has poisoned the town and wreaks havoc, as is happening at that moment. Several of the locals experience frightening visions they believe was brought on by DRG but was in fact created by the Dragon. The Dragon, originally businessman Gideon Winter, had bought land from the town centuries ago and killed women and children, was discovered and murdered by the founders, leading to his vendetta against the town and its inhabitants. The Dragon would possess people each cycle to commit atrocities, such as Bates Krell. Williams had confronted Bates Krell years ago and murdered him, after discovering his acts of villainy. Williams then devoted himself to uncover the history which he shares with the other three.