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PETER STRAUB is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. Two of his most recent, Lost Boy Lost Girl and In the Night Room, are winners of the Bram Stoker Award. He lives in New York City.

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...

The Washington Post - Bill Sheehan

…an impressive, highly personal assortment of perspectives and techniques. The result is a remarkably consistent, frequently unsettling book that does as much to blur the artificial boundary between genre fiction and "literature" as any anthology in living memory…transcends genre labels and deserves to be recognized for what it is: first-rate fiction.

Introduction • Peter Straub
 
The Bees • Dan Chaon
 
Cleopatra Brimstone • Elizabeth Hand
 
The Man on the Ceiling • Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem

The Great God Pan • M. John Harrison
 
The Voice of the Beach • Ramsey Campbell
 
Body • Brian Evenson
 
Louise's Ghost • Kelly Link
 
The Sadness of Detail • Jonathan Carroll
 
Leda • M. Rickert
 
In Praise of Folly • Thomas Tessier
 
Plot Twist • David J. Schow
 
The Two Sams • Glen Hirshberg
 
Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story • Thomas Ligotti
 
Unearthed • Benjamin Percy
 
Gardener of Heart • Bradford Morrow
 
Little Red's Tango • Peter Straub
 
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet • Stephen King
 
20th Century Ghost • Joe Hill
 
The Green Glass Sea • Ellen Klages
 
The Kiss • Tia V. Travis
 
Black Dust • Graham Joyce
 
October in the Chair • Neil Gaiman
 
Missolonghi 1824 • John Crowley
 
Insect Dreams • Rosalind Palermo Stevenson
 
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