The Hellfire Club

The Hellfire Club

by Peter Straub
The Hellfire Club

The Hellfire Club

by Peter Straub

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Overview

A riveting novel that “combines the intellectual-puzzle mystery with a powerful vein of psycho-thriller suspense” (The Washington Post) and “moves like an express train” (Stephen King), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story.
 
They are dying, one by one. Wealthy, middle-aged women in an exclusive Connecticut suburb. Their murderer remains at large. Nora Chancel, wife of publishing scion Davey Chancel, fears she may be next. After all, her past has branded her a victim.
 
Then Davey tells Nora a surreal story about the Hellfire Club, where years before he met an obsessed fan of Chancel House's most successful book, Night Journey—a book that has a strange history of its own.
 
Suddenly terror engulfs Nora: She must defend herself against fantastic accusations even as a madman lies in wait. And when he springs, she will embark on a night journey that will put her victimhood to rest forever, dead or alive.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780345415004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/29/1997
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 544
Sales rank: 492,860
Product dimensions: 4.20(w) x 6.81(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Peter Straub (1943-2022) was the author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. They include Ghost Story, Shadowland, Koko, Mr. X, In the Night Room, and two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. He has written two volumes of poetry and two collections of short fiction, and he edited the Library of America’s edition of H. P. Lovecraft’s Tales and the Library of America’s two-volume anthology, American Fantastic Tales. In 1998, he was named Grand Master at the World Horror Convention. In 2006, he was given the HWA’s Life Achievement Award. At the World Fantasy Convention in 2010, he was given the WFC’s Life Achievement Award.

Hometown:

New York City

Date of Birth:

March 2, 1943

Place of Birth:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Education:

B.A. in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1965; M.A., Columbia University, 1966

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SHORELANDS, JULY 1938
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What People are Saying About This

Stephen King

Far and away the best book Peter Straub has ever done....The Hellfire Club moves like an express train.

From the Publisher

The Hellfire Club moves like an express train.”
—STEPHEN KING

“SURPRISING TWISTS [AND A] WILDLY INVENTIVE PLOT.”
The New York Times

“COMBINES THE INTELLECTUAL-PUZZLE MYSTERY WITH A POWERFUL VEIN OF PSYCHO-THRILLER SYSPENSE.”
The Washington Post

“ONE OF THE MOST CHILLING VILLAINS TO COME ALONG SINCE HANNIBAL LECTER.”
San Francisco Chronicle

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