title: Peter Straub
Shadowland (Straub novel)
Mystery (novel)
The Talisman (King and Straub novel)
The Secret River
In the Night Room
Mrs. God (novel)
The General's Wife
Thomas Keneally
Julia (novel)
sentences: Peter Francis Straub (born March 2, 1943) is an American novelist and poet.
 His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award.
Shadowland is a novel by Peter Straub, first published in 1980 by Coward, McCann and Geohegen.
 It is a horror novel that has strong elements of fantasy.
 It was the first book Straub wrote following his highly successful "Ghost Story".
Mystery is a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub, and is the second installment in Straub's loosely connected "Blue Rose Trilogy".
 The novel falls into the genre of crime fiction, and was preceded by "Koko" and followed by "The Throat".
 The book was published by Dutton, won the 1993 Bram Stoker Award and was a 1994 WFA nominee
The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
 The plot is not related to that of Walter Scott's 1825 novel of the same name, although there is one oblique reference to "a Sir Walter Scott novel."
 "The Talisman" was nominated for both the Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1985.
 King and Straub followed up with a sequel, "Black House" (2001), that picks up with a now-adult Jack as a retired Los Angeles homicide detective trying to solve a series of murders in the small town of French Landing, Wisconsin.
The Secret River, written by Kate Grenville in 2005, is a historical novel about an early 19th-century Englishman transported to Australia for theft.
 The story explores what might have happened when Europeans colonised land already inhabited by Aboriginal people.
 The book has been compared to Thomas Keneally's "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" and to Peter Carey's "True History of the Kelly Gang" for its style and historical theme.
In the Night Room is a 2004 horror-thriller novel by American author Peter Straub and a sequel to his 2003 book "Lost Boy, Lost Girl".
 The work was first published in hardback on October 26, 2004 through Random House and it won the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Novel.
 Straub encountered some difficulties while writing "In the Night Room" and had written several different passages for the work before growing bored with each version before writing it using the same technique he used for its predecessor in which he "reached down inside the book and turned it inside out."
Mrs. God is a fantasy novel by Peter Straub.
 It was first published in 1990 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,350 copies, of which 600 copies were signed by the author and the artist, bound in quarter leather and slipcased as a deluxe edition.
 The novel is expanded from the short novel of the same name that appeared in Straub's collection "Houses Without Doors".
 A trade edition hardcover was issued later.
The General's Wife is a horror short story by Peter Straub.
 It was first published in 1982 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,200 copies and was issued without a jacket.
 The story is from a previously unpublished extract from the manuscript of Straub's novel, "Floating Dragon".
Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist.
 He is best known for writing "Schindler's Ark", the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor.
 The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Julia is a 1975 novel by Peter Straub.
 The work is Straub's first novel to deal with the supernatural and was published through Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.
 "Julia" was later adapted into the 1977 film "The Haunting of Julia" (occasionally referred to as "Full Circle") starring Mia Farrow.

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 Peter Francis Straub (born March 2, 1943) is an American novelist and poet.
 His horror fiction has received numerous literary honors such as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award. 

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 Shadowland is a novel by Peter Straub, first published in 1980 by Coward, McCann and Geohegen.
 It is a horror novel that has strong elements of fantasy.
 It was the first book Straub wrote following his highly successful "Ghost Story". 

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 Mystery is a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub, and is the second installment in Straub's loosely connected "Blue Rose Trilogy".
 The novel falls into the genre of crime fiction, and was preceded by "Koko" and followed by "The Throat".
 The book was published by Dutton, won the 1993 Bram Stoker Award and was a 1994 WFA nominee 

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 The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
 The plot is not related to that of Walter Scott's 1825 novel of the same name, although there is one oblique reference to "a Sir Walter Scott novel."
 "The Talisman" was nominated for both the Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1985.
 King and Straub followed up with a sequel, "Black House" (2001), that picks up with a now-adult Jack as a retired Los Angeles homicide detective trying to solve a series of murders in the small town of French Landing, Wisconsin. 

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 In the Night Room is a 2004 horror-thriller novel by American author Peter Straub and a sequel to his 2003 book "Lost Boy, Lost Girl".
 The work was first published in hardback on October 26, 2004 through Random House and it won the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Novel.
 Straub encountered some difficulties while writing "In the Night Room" and had written several different passages for the work before growing bored with each version before writing it using the same technique he used for its predecessor in which he "reached down inside the book and turned it inside out." 

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 Mrs. God is a fantasy novel by Peter Straub.
 It was first published in 1990 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,350 copies, of which 600 copies were signed by the author and the artist, bound in quarter leather and slipcased as a deluxe edition.
 The novel is expanded from the short novel of the same name that appeared in Straub's collection "Houses Without Doors".
 A trade edition hardcover was issued later. 

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 Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is a prolific Australian novelist, playwright, and essayist.
 He is best known for writing "Schindler's Ark", the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor.
 The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. 

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 Julia is a 1975 novel by Peter Straub.
 The work is Straub's first novel to deal with the supernatural and was published through Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.
 "Julia" was later adapted into the 1977 film "The Haunting of Julia" (occasionally referred to as "Full Circle") starring Mia Farrow. 

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Answer: yes