Peter Straub

Peter Francis Straub

Peter Francis Straub (Milwaukee, 2 marzo 1943New York, 4 settembre 2022) è stato uno scrittore e poeta statunitense, conosciuto soprattutto per le sue opere di genere fantastico e horror.

Biografia

Dopo successi alterni grazie a due romanzi pubblicati nella metà degli anni settanta, Straub scrisse il suo primo romanzo sul soprannaturale (Julia) nel 1976; quindi scrisse altri romanzi sullo stesso genere, come Patto di sangue (If You Could See Me Now) (1977) e Ghost Story (1979), suo quinto romanzo che gli diede grande fama internazionale, considerato da Stephen King uno dei migliori romanzi gotici dell'orrore.[1] Questo romanzo fu poi adattato anche in un film del 1981 con Fred Astaire. Negli anni seguenti furono pubblicati altri romanzi horror, con un successo crescente, fra i quali Il talismano (The Talisman) (1984) e La casa del buio (Black House) (2001), due horror fantastici, creati con la collaborazione di un amico di vecchia data di Straub, Stephen King.

Dopo un periodo di stasi, Straub riemerse nel 1988 con il romanzo Koko, una storia sul Vietnam non di soprannaturale, ma comunque allo stesso modo terrificante. Koko fu seguito nei primi anni novanta dai due romanzi Mystery e The Throat, i quali insieme a Koko formano la cosiddetta "Trilogia della Rosa Blu".

Nel 1996 Straub scrisse un ambizioso thriller chiamato The Hellfire Club, nel quale applicò molti elementi della trilogia della Rosa Blu ad un'ambientazione e una trama molto più gotica; dello stesso periodo Mr. X, sul tema del doppelgänger.

È morto all'età di 79 anni il 4 settembre 2022.[2]

Riconoscimenti

Opere

Narrativa

Romanzi

Collaborazioni con Stephen King

Raccolte di racconti

  • 1990 – Houses Without Doors
  • 2000 – Magic Terror
  • 2004 – A Little Blue Book of Rose Stories
  • 2007 – 5 Stories
  • 2010 – The Juniper Tree and Other Stories

Poesia

  • 1971 – My Life in Pictures
  • 1972 – Ishmael
  • 1972 – Open Air
  • 1983 – Leeson Park and Belsize Square: Poems 1970 - 1975

Saggistica

  • 2006 – Sides

Note

  1. ^ Charles L. Grant, Stephen King: I Like to Go for the Jugular, Twilight Zone, aprile 1981. In L'orrore secondo Stephen King, a cura di Tim Underwood e Chuck Miller, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori, Editore, 1999. ISBN 8804464224 p. 31
  2. ^ (EN) Peter Straub (1943-2022), su Locus Online, 6 settembre 2022. URL consultato il 6 settembre 2022.

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