R.I.P. Peter Straub

The writer Peter Straub has died. He was 79.

The horror master sealed his reputation with genre fans when he released his 1979 masterpiece, Ghost Story. It was turned into a film a couple of years on. He would go on to a collaboration with his friend Stephen King in 1984 (The Talisman) and in 2001they would team again to make The Talisman’s sequel, Black…