As literary as he was scary, Straub blending elements of multiple genres and multiple eras of speculative literature into his fiction, inspired as much by Henry James as he was by his peers. He is perhaps best known, at least as a solo writer for his 1979 novel Ghost Story, which was adapted into a feature film in 1981 and remains one of the most enduring horror works of the 1970s. Straub's legacy is a substantial body of work that spans five decades and includes novels, poetry, novellas, short fiction, and anthologies he edited which helped promote his peers and up-and-coming writers who benefitted from his mentorship and endorsement. Straub's death was felt deeply and widely across the literary world, with fellow authors including Neil Gaiman, Stephen Graham Jones, and Straub's close friend and collaborator Stephen King, all paying tribute to the author when news of his death reached the world on Tuesday. Peter Straub, one of the most important voices in horror fiction of the last 50 years, died Sunday at the age of 79.
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