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Peter Straub, the best-selling and beloved novelist who spun dark fantasies and literary horrors, including two co-authored projects with Stephen King, died Sunday. His wife confirmed to The New York Times that Straub had died following complications caused by a broken hip. He was 79.
In an Instagram post memorializing her father’s death, Emma Straub wrote, “Peter Francis Straub, the smartest and most fun person in every room he was ever in… How lucky we were. There aren’t enough words in the world.”
Stephen King, with whom Straub penned fantasy-horror novel The Talisman and its sequel Black House, mourned his “good friend and amazingly talented colleague and collaborator” in a tweet Tuesday.