PETER STRAUB is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. In the Night Room and Lost Boy, Lost Girl are winners of the Bram Stoker Award, as is his collection 5 Stories. Straub is the editor of numerous anthologies, including the two-volume American Fantastic Tale from the Library of America. He died in 2022.
“Straub’s return to all-out horror. . . . [He] does it on his own
terms, beautifully blending monsters and demons and indescribable
evil into a melancholy novel shaped and crafted as carefully as
literature, not pulp entertainment. Straub’s writing has rarely
been better or more precise.” —Miami Herald
“An alchemy of psychological suspense, supernatural horror and
cultural history. . . . Ambitious in its scope and challenging in
its telling. . . . Explosive.” —Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
“A modern-day supernatural Rashomon. . . . [A Dark Matter] leaves
one satisfied, still eager for the next book by one of the most
adroit masters of the supernatural thriller.” —San Francisco
Chronicle
“[A Dark Matter] has it all: shifting perspectives, nested
flashbacks, a story that spans four decades, and an attractive,
charming cast.” —The Onion A.V. Club
“Vivid, mysterious. . . . An elegant, multilayered reminiscence. .
. . A rich, multi-perspective take on a murky collegiate
misadventure in 1966.” —TimeOut New York
“[Straub] is a master at blurring the supernatural, the
real-world-scary and the monsters in your psyche.” —Cleveland
Plain-Dealer
“A powerful, original and utterly engrossing novel about the
palpability of evil and its costs. . . . . Nothing less than
stunning.” —The Globe and Mail
“Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid,
sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and
supernatural. It’s the kind of book that’s impossible to put down
once it has been picked up. It kept me reading far into the night.
Straub builds otherworldly terror without ever losing touch with
his attractive cast of youngsters, who age beautifully. Put this
one high on your list.” —Stephen King
“Part Rashomon, part The Turn of the Screw. Peter Straub may well
be the most important voice in suspense fiction today.” —Lincoln
Child
“American master Peter Straub takes the sweep of our freaky history
over the past forty years, subjects it to all the elegant gifts of
madness and arts of haunting of which he is the wicked king, and
finds himself in possession of a masterpiece.” —Michael Chabon
“I’ve been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and
his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains
echoes of all that has been great about Straub’s previous work and
builds upon it. This Rashomon-like tale is as spooky and
frightening as anything he has written, but it’s also an
intense and moving celebration of love. Out of the darkness
comes, ultimately, a surprising and haunting sense of joy.”
—Dan Chaon
“Increasingly, Peter Straub brilliantly defies and blurs literary
genres. A Dark Matter is a page-turning thriller of every sort:
psychological, sociological, epistemological. Plus, it’s really
scary.” —Lorrie Moore
“A devastatingly good novel. In its investigation of a dark
ritual that casts a decades-long shadow, A Dark Matter makes you
question all you thought you knew about horror and about
literature. But it goes well beyond that: it messes with your
sense of reality and then, just when you’re getting your bearings,
scrambles it again.” —Brian Evenson
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