Contributor
Straub, Peter, 1943-2022.
Imprint:New York, NY : Library of America, 2009.
Descriptionxv, 713 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Evening primrose / John Collier -- Smoke ghost / Fritz Lieber -- The mysteries of the Joy Rio / Tennessee Williams -- The refuge / Jane Rice -- My lupescu / Anthony Boucher -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- Midnight / Jack Snow -- Torch song / John Cheever -- The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson -- The circular valley / Paul Bowles -- I'm scared / Jack Finney -- The Vane sisters / Vladimir Nabokov -- The April witch / Ray Bradbury -- Black country / Charles Beaumont -- Trace / Jerome Bixby -- Where the woodbine twineth / Davis Grubb -- Nightmare / Donald Wandrei -- I have no mouth and I must scream / Harlen Ellison -- Prey / Richard Matheson -- The events of Poroth Farm / T.E.D. Klein -- Hanka / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Linnaeus forgets / Fred Chappell -- Novelty / John Crowley -- Mr. Fiddlehead / Jonathan Carroll -- Family / Joyce Carol Oates -- The last Feast of Harlequin / Thomas Ligotti -- A short guide to the city / Peter Straub -- The general who is dead / Jeff VanderMeer -- That feeling, you can only say what it is in French / Stephen King -- Sea oak / George Saunders -- The long hall on the top floor / Caitlín Kiernan -- Nocturne / Thomas Tessier -- The god of dark laughter / Michael Chabon -- Pop Art / Joe Hill -- Pansu / Poppy Z. Brite -- Dangerous laughter / Steven Millhauser -- The chambered Fruit / M. Rickert -- The wavering knife / Brian Evenson -- Stone animals / Kelly Link -- Pat Moore / Tim Powers -- The little stranger / Gene Wolfe -- Dial tone / Benjamin Percy.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.