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"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the most adroit masters of the supernatural thriller” (San Francisco Chronicle) delivers a chilling novel about a man seeking the truth about what happened on a horrifying night on a Midwestern campus in the 1960s. • ""Terrifying.... Impossible to put down."" —Stephen King On a college campus, a charismatic guru and his young acolytes perform a secret ritual in a local meadow. What happens is a mystery—all that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body and the shattered souls of all who were present. Forty years later, one man seeks to learn about that horrifying night, and to do so he’ll have to force those involved to examine the unspeakable events that have haunted them ever since."

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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. --@lt;i@gt;Miami Herald@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt;@lt;/i@gt; An alchemy of psychological suspense, supernatural horror and cultural history. . . . Ambitious in its scope and challenging in its telling. . . . Explosive. @lt;i@gt;--Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel@lt;br@gt;@lt;/i@gt; @lt;br@gt; A modern-day supernatural@lt;i@gt; Rashomon. . . . [@lt;b@gt;A Dark Matter@lt;/b@gt;]@lt;/i@gt; leaves one satisfied, still eager for the next book by one of the most adroit masters of the supernatural thriller. --San Francisco Chronicle@lt;br@gt;@lt;i@gt; @lt;br@gt;@lt;/i@gt; [@lt;i@gt;@lt;b@gt;A Dark Matter@lt;/b@gt;@lt;/i@gt;] has it all: shifting perspectives, nested flashbacks, a story that spans four decades, and an a

Praise for A DARK MATTER <br>&ldquo;Peter Straub's new novel is a terrifying story of innocents-high school students in the turbulent sixties-who stumble into horrors far beyond their understanding. A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It&rsquo;s the kind of book that&rsquo;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.&rdquo;<br>-Stephen King <br> Part Rashomon, part The Turn of the Screw. Peter Straub may well be the most important voice in suspense fiction today. <br>-- Lincoln Child <br> 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 pos

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 tak

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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.

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