Peter Straub

Peter Straub was the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including A Dark Matter and The Talisman, which he co-wrote with Stephen King. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for his novels Lost Boy Lost Girl and In the Night Room, as well as for his collection 5 Stories. Straub was the editor of the two-volume Library of American anthology The American Fantastic Tale. He passed away in 2022 at the age of seventy-nine.