You wove them well and stirred them scary.
The proof is in the macabre pudding: Ghost Story; (The Haunting of) Julia; Shadowland; Koko; If You Could See Me Now; Mr. X; Floating Dragon; In the Night Room; Lost Boy, Lost Girl; Mystery; The Hellfire Club; The Throat; A Dark Matter; and with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House.
Your terrifying tales kept us up way into the wee hours of the night with cold-sweated delight. Rest confident, Mr. Straub, that your bedeviling legacy will continue to thrill and enthrall for many a moody moon (and grateful generation) to come.
