Best-selling horror writer Peter Straub has died

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Source: NPR

Peter Straub, author of horror, mystery and supernatural novels and short stories has died at age 79. His daughter, novelist Emma Straub, announced his death on Instagram:

"Peter Francis Straub, the smartest and most fun person in every room he was ever in, 3/2/43 - 9/4/22. How lucky we were. There aren't enough words in the world."

In a career spanning more than 40 years, Straub's books include Ghost Story, The Hellfire Club, Black House and, in collaboration with Stephen King, The Talisman. Straub won numerous honors including multiple World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards.

"It's a sad day because my good friend and amazingly talented colleague and collaborator, Peter Straub, has passed away," wrote Stephen King on Twitter, "Working with him was one of the great joys of my creative life."

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[RobertDevereaux]

1. Remembering Peter Straub...

The response, today, to the death of Peter Straub has been appropriately overwhelming. Peter deserved nothing less.

Roughly thirty years ago, his polite and reluctant refusal to blurb my novel Santa Steps Out arrived with such brilliant paragraphs that, with his consent, I included them in my author’s afterword, “Making Light of Santa.”

At some convention or other, I had just a few minutes with him, which brings back memorable touches of kindness, genius, and generosity of spirit.

If you have never read Peter’s work, begin with GHOST STORY, resisting the temptation to watch the movie first.

[Docreed2003]

4. Beautiful...

Thank you for sharing your memories and experiences with him!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. I never got to meet him but started reading his works starting with Ghost Story

and devoured everything he published for many years after.

[niyad]

17. Will be checking my library for your books.

[RobertDevereaux]

2. Amazon, about him.

"Peter Straub is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. They include Ghost Story, Koko, Mr. X, In the Night Room, and two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. He has written two volumes of poetry and two collections of short fiction, and he edited the Library of America’s edition of H. P. Lovecraft: Tales and the Library of America’s two-volume anthology, American Fantastic Tales. He has won the British Fantasy Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards, and ten World Fantasy Awards. In 1997, he was named Grand Master at the World Horror Convention. In 2005, he was given the Horror Writers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. At the World Fantasy Convention in 2010, he was given the WFC’s Life Achievement Award."

[Docreed2003]

3. ...

I'm so incredible thankful to him for his contributions to literature, especially his work on "The Talisman"

"Everything goes away Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back too, like the moon"

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. Thank you for mentioning The Talisman. He reminded me of John Fowles Magus in that work.

I need to read it again.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

11. Netflix is producing it with Stranger Things creators and King!

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/the-talisman-netflix-series-everything-we-know-so-far/

What do Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, the Duffer Brothers and Netflix have in common? The answer is The Talisman. A live-action adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s book of the same name is currently being produced by Steven Spielberg and the Duffer Brothers, AKA the creators of Stranger Things. Here’s the latest on what we know about the project so far.

Curtis Gwinn, who worked as a writer-exec producer on Duffers’ Stranger Things, will act as writer and showrunner of the project that has been in on-and-off development by Spielberg for over 35 years.

[Docreed2003]

13. Can't wait for this!

If anyone can bring that world to life, it's the Duffer brothers.

[FalloutShelter]

5. RIP Peter

Ghost Story still one of my favorites.
Full disclosure, I write horror fiction. Peter Straub one of the giants and inspirations in the genre.

[MuseRider]

6. Damn.

Sorry to see this. RIP and thanks for the great reads.

[Scrivener7]

9. OH NO!!! That is a terrible loss. RIP, Peter, and thanks for all the hours of

fascination and escape.

[dchill]

10. He was a gifted, fabulous writer.

I read most of what he published.

[LoisB]

12. He will be missed. I love his books. R.I.P., Mr. Straub.

[Andy Canuck]

14. My favourite book

of his is Shadowland, an absolutely magical journey into an adolescent boy’s mind and his adult regrets and grief. I just started rereading it a couple of weeks ago and it is as wonderful and unsettling as I remember from reading it 40 years ago. It was like tapping straight into Peter Straub’s imagination. Thank you Peter for all your works and for being a really nice human being.

[TxGuitar]

26. I was just going to post about that

Shadowland is also my favorite book of his.

[Andy Canuck]

28. Right on.

A wild ride.

[highplainsdem]

15. Very sad news.

RIP.

[C Moon]

16. Love the book he wrote with Stephen King: The Talisman

[littlemissmartypants]

18. ...

[slightlv]

19. What is remembered, never dies.

RIP, Peter Straub. You will long be remembered.

This one really hurts. I loved his writing. Talisman, Ghost Story, and Shadowland were my favorites. Can't believe he's gone. Can't believe I'm at that age where I'm losing so many of my "favorite" people. But losing an author like Peter Straub really hurts. He's gotten me through many a long, long night of insomnia.

[Nululu]

20. RIP

Read and enjoyed most of his books.

[nuxvomica]

21. What is great about fiction is the conversation never ends

Reading a work of fiction is kind of like having a one-sided conversation with author, and that conversation is always available, even when the author has passed. I have taken this as a comfort when authors I've known have left us. Rest in peace, Peter Straub. You will be missed, but not completely.

[Glorfindel]

22. So sorry to hear it. He was one of the greats.

[Marthe48]

23. R.I.P.

I read The Talisman years ago. I enjoyed the read.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

24. Oh no, I have his books, Ghost Story, Shadowland, Floating Dragon, Talisman... all great

[MotorCityBeard]

27. Floating Dragon is a big favorite of mine

It is similar in theme to Stephen King's IT, but a completely different story. Parts of it still freak me out when I reread it.

[IcyPeas]

25. His daughter posted some really nice memories and pictures of him (on twitter)

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