'When kindergarten turned out to be a stupefyingly banal disappointment devoted to cutting animal shapes out of heavy colored paper, he took matters into his own hands and taught himself to read by memorizing his comic books and reciting them over and over to other neighborhood children on the front steps until he could recognize the words. The bio on his website reveals a hint of Straub's wry humor. His father was a salesman and his mother was a nurse. 'It's a sad day because my good friend and amazingly talented colleague and collaborator, Peter Straub, has passed away,' wrote Stephen King on Twitter, 'Working with him was one of the great joys of my creative life.'

Straub won numerous honors including multiple World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Straub's books include Ghost Story, The Hellfire Club, Black House and, in collaboration with Stephen King, The Talisman. 'Peter Francis Straub, the smartest and most fun person in every room he was ever in, 3/2/43 - 9/4/22. His daughter, novelist Emma Straub, announced his death on Instagram: Peter Straub, author of horror, mystery and supernatural novels and short stories has died at age 79. Paul's School in London, when he was collaborating with the Aurora Orchestra for their touring show 'Thriller' in 2011. As the story unfolds, their past is revealed to hold a murder from their youth, and they begin to fear that the young woman they killed has returned to take revenge upon them.Author Peter Straub at St. The protagonists, lifelong friends who call themselves the 'Chowder Society,' gather periodically to reminisce and share ghost stories. When one of them dies suddenly, the surviving men find themselves haunted by dreams in which they also die.

The story takes place in the fictional town of Milburn, New York, and is told from the alternating points of view of five men in their old age. Though his earlier books had achieved a limited amount of critical and commercial success, Ghost Story became a national bestseller and cemented the author's reputation. The novel was a watershed in Straub's career. The four members of the storytelling Chowder Society begin to experience a spate of terrors following the mysterious demise of one of. LOST BOY LOST GIRL and IN THE NIGHT ROOM are. The book was adapted into a film by the same name in 1981, minus the novel's fifth protagonist character, Lewis Benedikt. Peter Straub was the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, most recently of A DARK MATTER. It was published on Januby Coward, McCann and Geoghegan. Ghost Story is a horror novel by American writer Peter Straub. publishers, New York hardbound with grey and black boards and gilt lettering on cover and spine very good condition with unmarked pages dust jacket very good.

1979 'First Edition' stated Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.

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