51 titles- My Life in Pictures (Dublin, Ireland: Seafront Press, 1971)
- Ishmael (London: Turret Books, 1972)
- Open Air (Shannon, Ireland: Irish University Press, 1972)
- Marriages (London: André Deutsch, 1973)
- Julia (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976)
- If You Could See Me Now (London: Jonathan Cape, 1977)
- Ghost Story (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979)
- Shadow Land (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980)
- The General's Wife (West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M Grant, 1982)
- Floating Dragon (San Francisco, California: Underwood-Miller, 1982)
- Leeson Park and Belsize Square: Poems 1970-1975 (SanFrancisco, California: Underwood-Miller, 1983)
- Floating Dragon (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1983)
- The Talisman (New York: Viking, 1984) with Stephen King
- Wild Animals: Three Novels (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1984)
- Blue Rose (San Francisco, California: Underwood-Miller, 1985)
- Koko (New York: E P Dutton, 1988)
- Houses Without Doors (New York: E P Dutton, 1990)
- Mrs God (West Kingston, Rhode Island: Donald M Grant, 1990)
- Mystery (New York: E P Dutton, 1990)
- The Throat (Baltimore, Maryland: Borderlands Press, 1993)
- The Hellfire Club (New York: Random House, 1996)
- Peter and PTR: Two Deleted Prefaces and an Introduction (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 1999)
- Pork Pie Hat (London: Orion, 1999)
- Mr X (New York: Random House, 1999)
- Magic Terror: Seven Tales (New York: Random House, 2000)
- Black House (New York: Random House 2001) with Stephen King
- Conjunctions: 39: The New Wave Fabulists (Annondale-on-Hudson, New York: Bard College, 2002)
- lost boy lost girl (New York: Random House, 2003)
- In the Night Room (New York: Random House, 2004)
- A Little Blue Book of Rose Stories (Grantham, New Hampshire: Borderlands Press, 2004)
- Tonight You Look the Way You Look, Albert Fish! (Austin Texas: Iona Handcrafted Books, 2004)
- H P Lovecraft. Lovecraft: Tales (New York: Library of America, 2005)
- Ashputtle (Fallston, Maryland: Borderlands Press, 2005)
- Peter Straub's Ghosts (New York: Pocket Star Books, 2007)
- Sides (Baltimore, Maryland: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2007)
- Central Park: As Seen in Dreams of the Afterlife (New York: privately, 2008)
- Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (New York: Doubleday, 2008)
- 5 Stories (Baltimore, Maryland: Borderlands Press, 2008)
- American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (New York: Library of America, 2009)
- American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (New York: Library of America, 2009)
- A Special Place: The Heart of a Dark Matter (Baltimore, Maryland: Borderlands Press, 2010)
- The Green Woman (New York: DC Comics/Vertigo, 2010) with Michael Easton
- Mrs God (New York: Pegasus Crime, 2010)
- The Juniper Tree and Other Blue Rose Stories (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2010)
- A Dark Matter (New York: Doubleday, 2010)
- The Skylark (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2010)
- The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2012)
- The Buffalo Hunter (Baltimore, Maryland: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2012)
- Perdido: A Fragment from a Work in Progress (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2015)
- Interior Darkness: Selected Stories (New York: Doubleday, 2016)
- A Process (is a Process All its Own) (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2017)