Peter Straub, 'Ghost Story' author and Stephen King collaborator, and one of the most acclaimed writers in horror fiction, has died at 79.
Peter Straub, an acclaimed author who collaborated with Stephen King and helped legitimize horror fiction, has died at 79.Peter Straub, an author who helped usher in our decades-long fascination with horror fiction, had a way of weaving macabre and heart-wrenching prose into one sentence. Even stories about ghostly hauntings, sinister parallel universes or grisly murders could feel mournful, sensitive and cathartic in Straub's hands.
Straub died on Sunday at 79, his daughter, the author Emma Straub, confirmed on social media. His wife, Susan, told the New York Times he died from complications after breaking his hip.Born in Wisconsin, Straub's childhood was shattered by a traumatic event in the first grade: He was hit by a car , an incident that left him with nightmares for nearly three decades of his life -- until, that is, he started writing horror fiction.
"Ghost Story" earned Straub a lifelong admirer -- and occasional collaborator -- in King, who by then had published books like "Carrie" and "The Shining." The two collaborated on the fantasy epic "The Talisman" in 1984, which followed a boy attempting to save his mother's life while navigating a dangerous parallel universe, and again for its 2001 sequel.
"There's a lot of stuff that I think people in general prefer to back away from that I simply cannot back away from, temperamentally, because I don't think we have the whole world in mind or in view unless we also include these things," he told Salon. "Those kinds of things are of immense importance in allowing us to see what's going on around us in the proper way."
His daughter recently published "This Time Tomorrow," fiction loosely inspired by months she spent visiting Straub in 2020 when he was hospitalized for heart problems. In her book, a woman visiting her ailing father in the hospital suddenly travels back in time to her 16th birthday and re-meets the younger, spry version of her father.
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