HWA Press Release:
"Peter Straub has been awarded the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association (HWA). Straub is the author of seventeen novels, including Ghost Story, Julia, and In The Night Room, as well as two collaborations with Stephen King, Talisman and Black House. His work has topped the bestseller lists and has been translated into twenty languages.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is the most prestigious of the Bram Stoker Awards, given by the HWA in acknowledgment of superior achievement not just in a single work but in an entire career. Past Lifetime Achievement Award winners include such noted authors as Stephen King, Anne Rice, Joyce Carole Oates, Ray Bradbury, John Farris, Ramsey Campbell, and Charles Grant...."
For a more complete view of this master of horror, go to Peter Straub's website, and find out what he likes to eat, drink, is afraid of—and who this steely-eyed, natural-born killer would like to erase. Nervous already, aren't you?