by Peter Straub · Luitingh-Sijthoff · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789024524587
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«De Hellfire Club» is the suspense novel by Peter Straub, published by Luitingh-Sijthoff in paperback, with 557 pages, in Dutch.
Nora Chancel, a housewife, is taken hostage by Dick Dart, a serial killer. For ten days they flee across the United States and Nora manages to survive by flattering her captor's ego, while both investigate what happened half a century earlier at a writers' colony.
The original title is The Hellfire Club; the novel was published in 1996 and nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
For fans of thrillers, horror, mystery and crime stories.
Peter Francis Straub was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with Stephen King. He explored the mystery genre with the Blue Rose trilogy, consisting of Koko (1988), Mystery (1990) and The Throat (1993). He fused the supernatural with crime fiction in Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) and the related In the Night Room (2004). For the Library of America, he edited the volume H. P. Lovecraft: Tales and the anthology American Fantastic Tales. Straub received such literary honors as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award.
