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Peter Straub
Straub in 2009
Straub in 2009
BornPeter Francis Straub
(1943-03-02)March 2, 1943
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
DiedSeptember 4, 2022(2022-09-04) (aged 79)
New York City, New York, U.S.
OccupationNovelist, poet
Education
GenreHorror
Notable worksJulia (1975), Ghost Story (1979), The Talisman (1984)
Notable awardsBram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award
Spouse
Susan Bitker
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(m. 1966)​
Children2, including Emma Straub
Website
www.peterstraub.net

Peter Francis Straub (/straʊb/; March 2, 1943 – September 4, 2022)[1] was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with Stephen King. He explored the mystery genre with the Blue Rose trilogy, consisting of Koko (1988), Mystery (1990) and The Throat (1993). He fused the supernatural with crime fiction in Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) and the related In the Night Room (2004). For the Library of America, he edited the volume H. P. Lovecraft: Tales and the anthology American Fantastic Tales. Straub received such literary honors as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award.

According to his New York Times obituary, Straub "brought a poet's sensibility to stories about ghosts, demons and other things that go bump in the night."[2]

Early life and education

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Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Gordon Anthony Straub and Elvena (Nilsestuen) Straub.[3][4] At the age of seven, Straub was struck by a car, sustaining serious injuries. He was hospitalized for several months and used a wheelchair until he had re-learned how to walk. Straub has said that the accident made him prematurely aware of his own mortality.[5]

Straub read voraciously from an early age, but his literary interests did not please his parents; his father hoped that he would grow up to be a professional athlete, while his mother wanted him to be a Lutheran minister.[6] He attended Milwaukee Country Day School on a scholarship, and, during his time there, began writing.[6] In high school, he "discovered Thomas Wolfe and Jack Kerouac, patron saints of wounded and self-conscious adolescence and also, blessedly, jazz music, which spoke in utterance of beyond any constraint: passion and liberation in the form of speech on the far side of the verbal border."[7]

Straub attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he discovered "the various joys of Henry James, William Carlos Williams, and the Texas blues-rocker Steve Miller, a great & joyous character who lived across the street."[8] He earned an honors BA in English in 1965 and an MA at Columbia University a year later. He briefly taught English at Milwaukee Country Day, where he "enjoyed a minor but temporary success as Mr. Chips-cum-jalapenos, largely due to the absolute freedom given him by the administration and his affection for his students, who faithfully followed him as he struck matches and led them into caves named Lawrence, Forster, Brontë, Thackeray, etc., etc. On his off-hours, he fell in love with poetry, especially John Ashbery’s poetry, and wrote imitations of same. Three years later, fearing to turn into a spiritless & chalk-stained drudge, he went to Dublin, Ireland, to work on a Ph.D., secretly (a secret even to him) to start writing seriously."[8]

Career

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After mixed success with two attempts at literary mainstream novels in the mid-1970s (Marriages and Under Venus), Straub dabbled in the supernatural for the first time with Julia (1975).[9] He recalls that "The reason I chose to write scary books was because, at the time, there were three horror novels that had been enormously successful: The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby and The Other. But there were only three of them, so it looked to me as though there was plenty of room for newcomers. And if I wrote in the horror genre, I knew I could do anything. I could experiment."[10] He followed Julia with If You Could See Me Now (1977),[11] and came to widespread public attention with his fifth novel, Ghost Story (1979),[12] which was a critical success and was later loosely adapted into a 1981 film starring Fred Astaire.[13][14] In 1980, he published the fantasy Shadowland.[15] After returning to America, he wrote Floating Dragon, which won the August Derleth Award.[16] He said "I knew that this book would be an at least temporary farewell to the supernatural material that had been my daily fare."[17] He coauthored the horror-fantasy The Talisman with his longtime friend Stephen King.[18]

Straub at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival for a panel on how far a writer can go between reality and fantasy.

After a fallow period, Straub re-emerged in 1988 with Koko, a non-supernatural (though horrific) novel about the Vietnam war.[19] Koko was followed by Mystery (1990) and The Throat (1993). The three novels comprise the "Blue Rose Trilogy", which extended Straub's experiments with metafiction and unreliable narrators.[20][21]

In 1990, Straub published Houses Without Doors, a collection of short fiction including the shorter version of the novella Mrs. God. In 1996, he published the mainstream thriller The Hellfire Club.[22] In 1999, Straub published Mr. X, a novel with a doppelgänger theme. The novel pays homage to H. P. Lovecraft, as the eponymous character writes in a similar style.[23][24] In 2001, Straub and King rejoined forces for Black House, a loose sequel to The Talisman which tied that book in with King's The Dark Tower series. 2003 saw the publication of Lost Boy, Lost Girl, followed a year later by the related In the Night Room. Both won the Bram Stoker Award.[25]

In 2005, Straub edited the Library of America volume H. P. Lovecraft: Tales.[26] In 2009, Straub edited the Library of America anthology American Fantastic Tales.[27]

Straub published several books of poetry.[28] My Life in Pictures appeared in 1971 as part of a series of six poetry pamphlets Straub published with his friend Thomas Tessier under the Seafront Press imprint while living in Dublin.[28][29] In 1972 the more substantial chapbook Ishmael was published by Turret Books in London.[28][30] Straub's third book of poetry, Open Air, appeared later that same year from Irish University Press.[28][31] The collection Leeson Park and Belsize Square: Poems 1970 – 1975 was published by Underwood-Miller in October 1983. It reprinted much of Ishmael along with previously uncollected poems, but none of the poems from Open Air.[28][32] He also sat on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions, and he guest-edited Conjunctions #39, an issue on New Wave Fabulism.[33]

Straub (right) with Rob Hood in 2007

In 2007, Straub's personal papers were acquired by the Fales Library at New York University.[34]

Straub's final novel, A Dark Matter, was released in February 2010.[35]

In 2013, Straub appeared on the Code Street podcast with fantasist John Crowley.[36]

In 2016, co-author Stephen King said that he and Straub had plans to write a third Talisman book in the future. King says that the collaboration for the series was "natural," and that the two were excited to work together. In a 2021 appearance on the Dead Headspace podcast, Straub said that due to his health, it was unlikely that he would co-write a third Talisman with King.[37]

Reception and influence

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A critical essay on Straub's horror work can be found in S. T. Joshi's book The Modern Weird Tale (2001).[38] At the Foot of the Story Tree by Bill Sheehan discusses Straub's work before 2000.[39][40] John C. Tibbetts wrote a book-length study, The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub.[41]

In Andrew Shaffer's Secret Santa, a character refers to Stephen King, Anne Rice and Straub as "the unholy trinity" of horror.[42]

Of Straub's contribution to horror King says, "he brought a poet's sensibility to the field, creating a synthesis of horror and beauty" and "he writes a beautiful prose line that features narrative clarity, sterling characterization, and surprising bursts of humor."[43] King told The New York Times that "He was not only a literary writer with a poetic sensibility, but he was readable. And that was a fantastic thing. He was a modern writer who was the equal of, say, Philip Roth, though he wrote about fantastic things." King added that "he was a better and more literary author than I was."[2]

Neil Gaiman paid homage to Straub, writing “One of the best writers I’ve read, one of the best friends I’ve known. Always kind, funny, irascible, brilliant."[44]

Songwriter Nick Cave alludes to Straub's work in "The Curse of Millhaven" and "Do You Love Me (Part 2)".[45] Straub said "Naturally, this pleased me enormously. It is a great honor to have your work alluded to in that way by another artist. I love the whole idea. Nick Cave is a talented, compelling performer and I could see that some of my work would fall very neatly within the territory that interests him. Eventually we wound up e-mailing each other, and he sent me a very nicely signed copy of one of his CDs. It would be nice to meet him one day."[46]

Personal life and death

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In 1966, Straub married Susan Bitker.[47][48] They had two children, Benjamin, and Emma Straub, who is also a novelist. The family lived in Dublin from 1969 to 1972, in London from 1972 to 1979, and in the New York City area from 1979 onwards.[49]

When asked who his favorite writer was, Straub replied "I guess I have to say Henry James. At least that’s what I’d say today. On other days, I might choose Raymond Chandler, or Charles Dickens, or Wilkie Collins, or on other, other days, a real long shot, like Donald Harington. In some ways, John Ashbery will always be my favorite writer."[46]

Straub was a jazz aficionado, and saxophonist Lester Young features in his novella Pork Pie Hat. Per WBGO, "He discovered jazz as a boy growing up in Milwaukee in the late 1950s. He gravitated toward Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond, Clifford Brown, Bill Evans and Miles Davis."[50] In addition to jazz, he was "intensely interested in opera and other forms of classical music."[51][52]

Straub died on September 4, 2022, aged 79, from complications of a broken hip.[49][18] At the time of his death, he and his wife lived in Brooklyn.[49]

Bibliography

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Novels

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Short story collections

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Novellas

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  • 1982: The General's Wife[82]
  • 1990: Mrs. God (collected in "Houses Without Doors")[74]
  • 1993: The Ghost Village (collected in Magic Terror) (winner of World Fantasy Award) (1993)[83][75]
  • 1993 Bunny is Good Bread (collected in "Magic Terror")[75]
  • 1997 Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff (collected in "Magic Terror")[75]
  • 1999 Pork Pie Hat (collected in "Magic Terror")[75]
  • 2010: A Special Place – The Heart of a Dark Matter (outtake from "A Dark Matter")[84]
  • 2011: The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine[85]
  • 1990/2012: The Buffalo Hunter: A Novella (originally collected in "Houses Without Doors" in 1990)[86][74]
  • 2015: Perdido[87]
  • 2017: The Process (is a Process All its Own)[88]

Poems

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Non-fiction

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  • 2006: Sides (collection of non-fiction essays)[91]

Anthologies (as editor)

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Omnibus editions

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  • 1984: Wild Animals (collects the novels Julia, If You Could See Me Now, and Under Venus)[95][96]

Limited editions

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  • 2010: The Skylark (an earlier, longer draft of A Dark Matter)[97][95]

Further reading

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Adaptations

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References

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