The consequences happened subtly at first and to some more than others.
An incident that happened when they were young men bound them together and twisted their individual and collective fates. However, this is a well written eerie story that covers the adult lifetimes of five men, now at retirement age. “One lives through so much, and after a while things sort of settle down, and most of what one wishes for is a long calm continuance,” Straub wrote, “with work and love, friendship and art, clear-headedness, laughter, and an unbroken awareness of how fragile and threatened any such blessedness must be.If you are looking for a book that is short, fast paced, has thrills in every chapter, and lots lots of ghosts, this isn’t it. In the final words of his online biography, Straub mused about what had been keeping him busy and fulfilled: yoga, his marriage, his children and more. He was uncommonly strong, both physically and emotionally.”
Sadly, it was unable to keep up with his innate knowledge of how to overcome next hurdle placed in front of him. Neither are any of the rest of us.”īenjamin Straub told The Times, of his father’s death, “His corporeal body eventually failed him. “If there’s one thing I know for sure, it’s that he is going to die someday he’s not going to escape that. How Emma Straub got to know Los Angeles for ‘Laura Lamont’Įarlier this year, she told the Orange County Register her father’s surviving to see the book published felt “miraculous.” But she didn’t feel strange portraying a father dying in fiction. “Working with him was one of the great joys of my creative life.”īooks How Emma Straub got to know Los Angeles for ‘Laura Lamont’ “It’s a sad day because my good friend and amazingly talented colleague and collaborator, Peter Straub, has passed away,” the author of “The Shining” wrote. Their novel is being adapted by the Duffer Brothers into a Netflix series.
On social media she also shared photos of her parents’ wedding, her father with loved ones as well as his stint on “One Life to Live.” Also mourning Straub on social media was collaborator Stephen King, with whom he wrote “The Talisman” in 1984. “Peter Francis Straub, the smartest and most fun person in every room he was ever in, 3/2/43 - 9/4/22,” she wrote in the caption. Straub’s daughter, novelist Emma Straub, posted her memories on Instagram on Tuesday. Straub’s son, Benjamin, told The Times he died “surrounded by love ones” in Manhattan on Sunday from complications due to a hip injury. Horror writer Peter Straub, who cemented his place in the genre with works including “Ghost Story,” “The Talisman” and “A Dark Matter,” has died.
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