Not that he could complain about what critics and readers thought. Novels like “Julia” (1975) and “Ghost Story” (1979) helped revivify a once-creaking field, even though he insisted that his work transcended categorization and that he wrote how he wanted, only to watch readers and critics pigeonhole him as a horror novelist. Straub was both a master of his genre and an anxious occupant of it. His death, at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, was caused by complications after breaking a hip, his wife, Susan Straub, said. Peter Straub, whose literary novels of terror, mystery and the supernatural placed him in the top ranks of the horror-fiction boom of the 1970s and ’80s, alongside writers like Ira Levin, Anne Rice and his close friend and collaborator Stephen King, died on Sunday in Manhattan.
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