title: The Horror Writers Association Presents Peter Straub's Ghosts
author: Peter Straub
description: Peter Straub, the author of <i>Ghost Story, Koko, The Throat,</i> and many other bestselling novels, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1943. He has won two World Fantasy Awards and one HWA Stoker.
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  **“AN IRRESISTIBLE TALE** with surprising twists right up to the last sentence
  … Peter Straub is a master at keeping secrets…. He lures his reader into a
  complex plot, replete with dark undercurrents [and] sinister ghostly figures.”
  
  
  — _St. Louis Post-Dispatch_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “ _Mr. X_ marks Straub’s triumphant return to the tale of the paranormal and
  the supernatural…. The plot is challenging, the characters are intriguing in
  their complexity, and the language is a delight.”
  
  
  — _S TEPHEN KING_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “There’s no shortage of memorable players in [Straub’s] latest effort, _Mr. X_
  …. A classic doppelgänger tale with supernatural elements, passages of H. P.
  Lovecraft parody, and an unexpected stable of wickedly droll oddball
  characters.”
  
  
  — _Entertainment Weekly_
  
  
  
  
  
  **A Main Selection of the  
  Book-of-the-Month Club**
  
  
  
  
  
  **“PETER STRAUB IS A  
  NATIONAL TREASURE.”**
  
  
  — _L AWRENCE BLOCK_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “A continually surpri