Together Straub and King penned 1984’s The Talisman and its 2001 sequel, Black House.
“How lucky we were.
There aren’t enough words in the world.”
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He found his first ‘effect’ when he discovered that he could make this kind of thing funny."
The book was adapted into a 1981 film starring Fred Astaire and Alice Krige.
Working with him was one of the great joys of my creative life."
And that was a fantastic thing.
