Peter Straub est en interview ici.

Il parle de son dernier roman A Dark Matter.

Extrait :

"Question: Your latest book, A Dark Matter, feels like a novel of the sixties as seen through a lens of magical realism. How much of this novel was informed or based off of real events?
Peter Straub: I used my memories of draft protests and anti-Vietnam demonstrations in mid-sixties Madison, but that is about all that came from real life. Apart of course from the atmosphere, which was really thick, filled with anger, fear and suspicion.

Q: Spenser Mallon, the charismatic guru who acts as a kind of catalyst for the events in this book, is the leader of a tight-knit group of followers who also seem to have dedicated themselves to his vision and ceremonies leading up to the event in the meadow. He has the feeling of being drawn, at least in part, from another charismatic real-life persona. Was this an inspiration for the character?
Peter Straub: If you are talking about Charles Manson, he was never an inspiration for Mallon. I based the character on two sage/guru-types who drifted into Madison during the mid-sixties, babbling about violence, the I Ching, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and societal violence. These handsome and slightly older fellows appropriated whatever they got their hands on, including girlfriends. I understood them to be frauds from the start, but they were pretty interesting, anyhow."