Title: Shadowland

Title: Shadowland Title Record # 1246
Author: Peter Straub
Date: 1980-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: WorldCat: Two apprentices studying under a master magician spend a season residing in a dark house located in the deep recesses of the Vermont forest. Learning secrets best left unlearned, they enter a world of incalculable evil and terror. Only one of them will survive the ordeal.

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Translations

Year	Title
1981	Shadow Land

Year	Language	Title
1983^ⓘTranslated by Walter Brumm	German	Schattenland
1987^ⓘTranslated by Jean-Paul Martin.	French	Shadowland

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	1981 Balrog	Novel
9	1981 Locus	Best Fantasy Novel
Nomination	1981 World Fantasy	Best Novel
Nomination (as Schattenland)	1984 Kurd Lasswitz Prize	Bester ausländischer SF-Roman

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Shadowland	1980-10-00	Peter Straub	Coward, McCann & Geoghegan	0-698-11045-5	$12.95^?$: US dollar	417	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Lynn Hollyn
Shadow Land	1981-00-00	Peter Straub	Collins	0-00-222343-0	£6.95^?£: UK pound	417	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Shadow Land	1981-00-00	Peter Straub	Fontana / Collins	0-00-616328-9	C$3.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	417	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Shadowland	1981-02-00	Peter Straub	Berkley Books	0-425-05152-8	$3.50^?$: US dollar	468	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Shadowland	1981-11-00	Peter Straub	Berkley Books	0-425-05056-4	$3.50^?$: US dollar	468	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Schattenland	1983-08-00	Peter Straub	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3999)	3-453-30937-5	DM 9.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	559	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	John Stewart
Shadowland	1983-11-00	Peter Straub	Fontana / Collins	0-00-616546-X	£1.95^?£: UK pound	445	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Shadowland	1985-11-00	Peter Straub	Berkley Books	0-425-08207-5	$4.50^?$: US dollar	468	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Shadowland	1987-08-00	Peter Straub	J'ai Lu (J'ai Lu - Épouvante #2249)	2-277-22249-6		508	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Franco Accornero
Shadowland	1989-09-00	Peter Straub	Fontana	0-00-616546-X	£3.99^?£: UK pound	478	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Shadowland	1993-06-00	Peter Straub	Grafton	0-00-616546-X	£4.99^?£: UK pound	478	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Melvyn Grant
Shadowland	1995-08-00	Peter Straub	Gauntlet Press	1-887368-00-0	$60.00^?$: US dollar	598	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Harry O. Morris
Shadowland	1997-04-00	Peter Straub	J'ai Lu (J'ai Lu - Épouvante #2249)	2-290-02249-7		508	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	J. K. Potter
Shadowland	2001-10-00	Peter Straub	Voyager Classics / HarperCollins (Voyager Classics #15)	0-00-711957-7	£7.99^?£: UK pound	478	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Shadowland	2003-03-00	Peter Straub	Berkley Books	0-425-18822-1	$7.99^?$: US dollar	468	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Shadowland	2007-06-00	Peter Straub	Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche #27030)		€7.50^?€: Euro	573	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Shadowland	2015-08-18	Peter Straub	Berkley Books	978-1-101-66550-3	$7.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Shadowland	date unknown	Peter Straub	Berkley Books	0-425-09726-9	$5.95^?$: US dollar	468	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Jeff Frane (1980) in Locus, #238 October 1980
Review by Galad Elflandsson (1981) in Fantasy Newsletter, #34 March 1981
Review by Stanley Wiater (1981) in Fangoria, April 1981
Review by Charles L. Grant (1981) in Fantasy Newsletter, #35 April 1981
Review by Robert T. Garcia [as by Robert Garcia] (1982) in American Fantasy, February 1982
Review by Robert Sheckley (1982) in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, March 1982
Review [German] by Uwe Anton (1987) in Das Science Fiction Jahr Ausgabe 1987
Review [French] by Patrick Marcel (1987) in Yellow Submarine, #52
Review by Peter Crowther (1998) in Interzone, #129 March 1998

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