Peter Straub, Bestselling Novelist and ‘The Talisman’ Co-Author, Dies at 79
thewrap.comconfirmed the news Tuesday on her Instagram account.According to The New York Times, his wife, Susan Straub, said his death was caused by complications from breaking a hip.
He died at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Fellow writers and collaborators have been mourning the author’s death on social media, including Neil Gaiman, who was one of the first to express his sadness at Straub’s death (“Always kind, funny, irascible, brilliant,” Gaiman said).
King, whose latest novel “Fairy Tale” debuts in bookstores Tuesday, wrote: “Working with him was one of the great joys of my creative life.”Straub’s first horror novel, “Julia,” was published in 1975 by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan.
It was adapted into a feature, known as either “Full Circle” or “The Haunting of Julia,” which starred Mia Farrow and Keir Dullea, that was released in 1977.
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