by Peter Straub · Planeta Pub Corp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408025245
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«Círculo diabólico» is the psychological horror novel by Peter Straub, published by Planeta in paperback (364 pages, in Spanish).
Nora, a housewife trapped in monotony, is kidnapped at gunpoint by Dick Dart, a suspected serial killer accused of four murders. To survive, Nora must feed her captor's ego and outwit him without his noticing, in a tense battle of wits.
Originally published as «The Hellfire Club» in 1996, it was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award.
For readers of psychological thrillers and horror, interested in stories of kidnapping and survival.
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.
