Becoming famous with “The Haunted House”, he collaborated with Stephen King for the novels “The Talisman” and “The House of Darkness”. Many of his titles are translated into Italian
The American writer Peter Straub has died at the age of 79, who made a name for himself with his horror stories, dark fantasy and psychological thrillers, also known for two best sellers co-written with Stephen King. His disappearance, which occurred on Sunday 4 September in Manhattan, was caused by postoperative complications after hip surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital. It was daughter Emma Straub, also a best-selling fiction author, who broke the news on Instagram. And on Twitter came the condolences of Stephen King: “It’s a sad day because my good friend and colleague and extraordinarily talented collaborator, Peter Straub, is dead. Working with him has been one of the great joys of my creative life.”
Born in Milwakee, Straub wrote his first novel on the supernatural, Julia, in 1976 (the Italian edition appeared from the Editoriale Corno in 1979). In the following years he published Blood pact (1976; Armenia Editore, 1991). It was Ghost Story (1979; translated into Italian by Mondadori three years later with the title The haunted house) to give him great international fame and was hailed by Stephen King as one of the best horror novels; the film was made from the novel Ghost stories directed in 1981 by director John Irvin. And just in collaboration with Stephen King, Straub published The talisman (1984; Sperling & Kupfer, 1986) e The house of darkness (2001; Sperling & Kupfer, 2002). After The evil dragon (1983; Sperling & Kupfer, 1983), released in 1988 Size (Sperling & Kupfer, 1991), followed by the two novels Mystery (1990; Sperling & Kupfer, 1991; Fanucci, 2022) e The Throatwhich together form the so-called Trilogy of the Blue Rose. It is from 1999 Mr. Xtranslated last year by Fanucci, on the theme of Doppelgänger.
Straub has won the British Fantasy Award, ten Bram Stoker Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards and four World Fantasy Awards, and received the honorary title of Grand Master at the World Horror Convention in 1997.
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