Series
Blue Rose (Peter Straub)
Peter Straub · 3 novels · 2 novellas · 2 novelettes · 2 collections · 1985–2010
The Blue Rose novels are only loosely a series: Peter Straub's Koko, Mystery, and The Throat are separate suspense novels connected by recurring characters, a shared Midwestern town, and the shadow of a Vietnam-era program called Blue Rose that haunts several of the men at their centers. Koko follows a group of Vietnam veterans hunting a former comrade turned serial killer decades after the war. The 1985 novella Blue Rose and later story collections explore the same program's darker origins.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Blue Rose (Peter Straub) at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s3
- 1990s4
- 2000s1
- 2010s1
Shape
3 novels · 2 novellas · 2 novelettes · 2 collections
1 author · completed series
reads like:horrorfamily secretsour worldcontemporarydarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book9 of 9 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Blue Rosedarkest
- Feebrightest
- Mysterycalmest
- The Throatmost intense