Peter Straub
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Sep 11, 2026
Robert LambHOST
But in 1981, she appeared in a couple, couple of films of note.
Robert LambHOST
There was Chariots of Fire and then Ghost Story based on the novel by Peter Straub, uh, which I've not seen, but apparently that performance was one of the things that got her hired for First Contact.
Joe McCormickHOST
Hmm.
Robert LambHOST
Um, where, you know, she's, uh...
Rob LambHOST
But in 1981 she appeared in a couple, couple of films of note.
Rob LambHOST
There was Chariots of Fire and then Ghost Story based on the novel by Peter Straub, uh, which I've not seen, but apparently that performance was one of the things that got her hired for First Contact.
Joe McCormickHOST
Hmm.
Rob LambHOST
Um, where, you know, she's a...
DaisyHOST
And, like, some other famous people go there.
DaisyHOST
Straub's father, Peter, is also a famous writer.
NicoHOST
Okay.
DaisyHOST
He primarily wrote supernatural and horror novels, including one he co-wrote with Stephen King.
DaisyHOST
I stood up, walked closer, and started filming him.
DaisyHOST
The power was still there.
DaisyHOST
I kept a loose eye on the group after that." So then in 2022, she writes, I think, a sad book called This Time Tomorrow about her father passing.
DaisyHOST
So her dad dies, and then she writes the book This Time Tomorrow to process the grief, and it is a very sad book.
Harlan CobenGUEST
I was a member of another group called the Adams Roundtable, which is a bunch of mystery writers that used to have lunch together once a month.
Harlan CobenGUEST
It was founded by Mary Higgins Clark, and over the years, our membership included Lawrence Block, uh, Peter Straub, um, Susan Isaacs, Judith Kellman, uh, Lee Child, Nelson DeMille, so we had a lot of writers.
Harlan CobenGUEST
And one time the subject came up of what's the scariest noise in the world? Is it a man screaming, a man torture? Is it a wife crying? Is it a woman d- you know, what...
Harlan CobenGUEST
We went on and on, and a guy named Warren Murphy, who is a wonderful writer, who's deceased now.
Sean McGirrHOST
I think we're just past, like, 52 or 54% of the way through this book.
Sean McGirrHOST
We had talked in our first episode on Black House about how a lot of part one was sort of throat-clearing and introductions, and Straub and King introducing a bunch of characters in the town in this unique way of narrating the book that gives us sort of an immediate look at what's happening around town, this bird's-eye view.
Sean McGirrHOST
And, uh, we were interested to see how that was going to translate into part two now that the introduction is out of the way, that here we're probably gonna get to the meat of the story.
Sean McGirrHOST
And with this section being called The Taking of Tyler Marshall, it seems like some action is gonna take place.
Sean McGirrHOST
I think that that's a fair way of saying it.
Jay RussoHOST
Um, I think that this book suffers from a little bit of a combination of two problems.
Jay RussoHOST
I suspect that the struggle or perhaps just the choices that King and Straub have made in how they collaborate, but I think that that introduces extra, and I think that produces inefficiency in the story itself.
Sean McGirrHOST
Mm.
Stephen BissetteGUEST
Cohen,
Clay McLeod ChapmanGUEST
who adapted Carrie, who adapted Ghost Story by Peter Straub.
Stephen BissetteGUEST
He did a terrible job on Ghost Story, I have to say.
Stephen BissetteGUEST
He left out the wrong half of the novel when he did Ghost Story.
speaker_7HOST
He then went on to claim that the Amityville horror, which he openly admitted was not a highbrow literary achievement, scared him more than any book he had ever read.
speaker_6HOST
And just for good measure, he threw in that Peter Straub's ghost story was pure gold.
speaker_7HOST
We already discussed Clayton, who demanded Salem's Lot replace The Shining.
speaker_6HOST
Right.
Gilbert CruzHOST
He has a new book, uh, titled Otherworlds Than These.
Gilbert CruzHOST
Uh, he wrote it with Peter Straub.
Gilbert CruzHOST
Stephen King, someone I've talked about on this podcast before, maybe.
Gilbert CruzHOST
Have I ever talked about him? Who knows? [laughs]
Joumana KhatibGUEST
[laughs]
Gilbert CruzHOST
Uh, but this, but this one is sort of like brings those two universes together, the Talisman, The Dark Tower series, and I think anyone who's, like, been interested in the Stephen King extended universe over these many decades will definitely be reading this one.
Gilbert CruzHOST
That one is Otherworlds Than These by Stephen King and Peter Straub.
MJ FranklinGUEST
Um, I have a pivot from horror, unless you consider an ex reaching out to you after 28 years a horror story.
William R. A. RushGUEST
It's like, well, that's clearly real.
William R. A. RushGUEST
You know, like a ghost story by Peter Straub.
William R. A. RushGUEST
He's talking about old writers.
Stephen BissetteGUEST
You know, when we were doing Swamp Thing, the character to us that was real was Abby, right? Abby had no money, was going job to job, you know, was wearing cut off denim shorts and because that's what you could afford.
Jen AdamsHOST
That's true.
Jen AdamsHOST
Well, and listeners, if you want more Stephen King and Peter Straub at the Losers Club, we are in the midst of our summer of Straub.
Jen AdamsHOST
We've got a Dance Macabre episode on Straub's Julia, not Julia Marchese, but the novel Julia.
Jen AdamsHOST
Yeah.
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