“Author Peter Straub, 79, died September 4, 2022 after a long illness. Straub was a celebrated, influential, and bestselling author of literary horror, dark fantasy, and psychological thrillers. Peter Francis Straub was born March 2, 1943 in Milwaukee WI. He earned a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1965, an MA from Columbia University in 1966, then returned to Wisconsin to teach English at his former prep school for three years. In 1969 he moved to Ireland and began work on a PhD at University College in Dublin, but did not finish. He published two books of poetry in 1972, Ishmael and Open Air, and his first mainstream novel, Marriages, in 1973.”
Source: Peter Straub (1943-2022) – Locus Online
Sad news for fans of Straub’s gothic and other dark fiction. Here are his novels, compliments of Wikipeia:
Novels[
- 1973: Marriages
- 1974: Under Venus
- 1975: Julia
- 1977: If You Could See Me Now
- 1979: Ghost Story
- 1980: Shadowland (World Fantasy Award nominee, 1981)[11]
- 1983: Floating Dragon (winner of the 1984 August Derleth Award)[12]
- 1984: The Talisman (with Stephen King, winner of the 1985 World and Locus Fantasy Awards)[13]
- 1988: Koko (winner of the 1989 World Fantasy Award)[14]
- 1990: Mystery
- 1993: The Throat (winner of the 1993 Bram Stoker Award[15] and 1994 WFA nominee[16])
- 1995: The Hellfire Club (1996 Bram Stoker[17] and 1997 August Derleth Awards nominee[18])
- 1999: Mr. X (winner of the 1999 Bram Stoker Award[19] and August Derleth Award nominee[20])
- 2001: Black House (with Stephen King, 2001 Bram Stoker Award nominee)[20]
- 2003: Lost Boy, Lost Girl (winner of the 2003 Bram Stoker Award[21] and 2004 August Derleth Award nominee[22])
- 2004: In the Night Room (winner of the 2004 Bram Stoker Award)[22]
- 2010: A Dark Matter (winner of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award)[23]
We will miss his dark words.
–Malcolm
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