Floating Dragon [Paperback]

Let the terror begin again in this deliciously imaginative (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from #1New York Timesbestselling author Peter Straub.

The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous unstoppable creation of man’s power gone mad. The other is not natural at all. And it makes the first look like child’s play...

“Unspeakable horror…has ‘Bestseller’ written all over it.”—Los Angeles Times

“Straub’s effects are quite spectacular…I was fairly awed by some of the more nightmarish scenes inFloating Dragon.”—The New York TimesPraise for Peter Straub andFloating Dragon

“Here is a novel guaranteed to double the national nightmare quotient, so watch out.”—Cosmopolitan

“Buy it today. Anything by Straub is worth several thousand John Sauls and a million V.C. Andrewses.”—Philadelphia Inquirer

“A book that positively bubbles with invention, jammed with characters, color, events, hackle-raising twists of fate, horrific monsters, terrifying nightmares, and a reality that shimmers and shifts as much as the noxious stream from a witch’s cauldron.”—Book WorldPeter Straubis the author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. They include Ghost Story, 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: Tales and the Library of America’s two-volume anthology, American Fantastic Tales. He has won the BrlÃF