in Germany he was best known for two joint novels with Stephen King. The US writer Peter Straub has died at the age of 79. \/ Writer Peter Straub dies<\/p>\n
The American horror and fantasy author Peter Straub (“Witching Hour”) is dead. As the “New York Times” reported, citing Straub’s wife, the writer died due to health complications after a hip fracture. Straub was 79 years old.<\/p>\n
His daughter Emma wrote on her Instagram account that Straub died on Sunday. “Peter Francis Straub, the smartest and funniest person in any room he’s ever been in,” she wrote. ‘How lucky we were. There aren’t enough words in the world.\u201d She also shared a series of pictures of her father, including his wedding and snaps with his grandchildren.<\/p>\n
New York. His first successes were the novels \u00bbJulia\u00ab (1975) and \u00bbWitching Hour\u00ab (1979). “Peter Straub’s work is readily available in every train station bookstore – and yet it is virtually unknown in this country,” wrote the magazine “Literaturen” in 2001. Its author at the time, Burkhard M\u00fcller, described the special power of Straub’s writing as follows: “…that der, der looks up from him, sees everything around her suddenly deepened and heightened, as if her visible presence were a skin with a stretched muscle underneath \u2013 or, as Straub puts it: a wild animal pretending to sleep.\u00ab<\/p>\n
The two books that Straub published with his long-time friend Stephen King caused greater awareness in Germany: \u00bbThe Talisman\u00ab (1984) and \u00bbThe Black House\u00ab (2001) – the latter was on the SPIEGEL bestseller list for weeks and reached in September Fourth place in 2022.<\/p>\n
“He was a unique writer in many ways,” King told the New York Times on Monday. \u201cNot only was he a literary writer with a poetic sensibility, he was also readable. And that was a fantastic thing. He was a modern writer on a par with Philip Roth, even if he wrote about fantastic things.’<\/p>\n