Poe's Children 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）。

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Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology  

From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre. Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New Wave horror writers have more in common with the wildly inventive, evocative spookiness of Edgar Allan Poe than with the sometimes-predictable hallmarks of their peers. Showcasing this cutting-edge talent, Poe’s Children now brings the best of the genre’s stories to a wider audience. Featuring tales from such writers as Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Carroll, Poe’s Children is Peter Straub’s tribute to the imaginative power of storytelling. Each previously published story has been selected by Straub to represent what he thinks is the most interesting development in our literature during the last two decades. Selections range from the early Stephen King psychological thriller “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet,” in which an editor confronts an author’s belief that his typewriter is inhabited by supernatural creatures, to “The Man on the Ceiling,” Melanie and Steve Rasnic Tem’s award-winning surreal tale of night terrors, woven with daylight fears that haunt a family. Other selections include National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon’s “The Bees”; Peter Straub’s “Little Red’s Tango,” the legend of a music aficionado whose past is as mysterious as the ghostly visitors to his Manhattan apartment; Elizabeth Hand’s visionary and shocking “Cleopatra Brimstone”; Thomas Ligotti’s brilliant, mind-stretching “Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story”; and “Body,” Brian Evenson’s disturbing twist on correctional facilities. Crossing boundaries and packed with imaginative chills, Poe’s Children bears all the telltale signs of fearless, addictive fiction.