# Poe's Children: The New Horror - Paperback

[**Report copyright infringement**](https://reportcopyrightinfringement.com/)

by **Peter Straub** (Author)

**The #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Ghost Story**\--**_and 8-time Bram Stoker Award winner--gathers 24 bone-chilling, nail-biting, frightfully imaginative stories that represent the best of contemporary horror writing.  
**  
"Revelatory.... A remarkably consistent, frequently unsettling book." --_The Washington Post_

"\[Straub\] collects the best scary short stories out there." --_Time_

Dan Chaon **"The Bees"**  
Elizabeth Hand **"Cleopatra Brimstone"**  
Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem **"The Man on the Ceiling"**  
M. John Harrison **"The Great God Plan"**  
Ramsey Campbell **"The Voice of the Beach"**  
Brian Evenson **"Body"**  
Kelly Link **"Louise's Ghost"**  
Jonathan Carroll **"The Sadness of Detail"**  
M. Rickert **"Leda"**  
Thomas Tessier **"In Praise of Folly"**David J. Schow **"Plot Twist"**  
Glen Hirshberg **"The Two Sams"**  
Thomas Ligotti **"Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story"**  
Benjamin Percy **"Unearthed"**  
Bradford Morrow **"Gardener of Heart"**  
Peter Straub **"Little Red's Tango"**  
Stephen King **"The Ballad of a Flexible Bullet"**  
Joe Hill **"20th Century Ghost"**  
Ellen Klages **"The Green Glass Sea"**  
Tia V. Travis **"The Kiss"**  
Graham Joyce **"Black Dust"**  
John Crowley **"Missolonghi 1824"**  
Rosalind Palermo Stevenson **"Insect Dreams"**

### Author Biography

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.

**Number of Pages:** 608

**Dimensions:** 1.06 x 8 x 5.24 IN

**Publication Date:** October 06, 2009

## Details

- **Price:** 30.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Anthologies (multiple authors), Books, Fiction, Horror, Price Written on Book, Psychological, Thrillers

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
|---------|-------|-----------|
| Default Title | 30.00 GBP | In stock |

## Images

- Poe's Children: The New Horror

---

> Source: [Somiibooks](https://somiibooks.com/products/poes-children-the-new-horror-paperback-1)
> Updated: 2026-08-22