diff --git a/grammar.js b/grammar.js
index 2104a48..afea8d2 100644
--- a/grammar.js
+++ b/grammar.js
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ module.exports = grammar({
     special_variable: $ => seq('$', $.identifier),
     _variable_name: $ => choice($.identifier, $.special_variable),
 
-    string: _ => token(seq('"', repeat(choice(/[^"]/, '\\"')), '"')),
+    string: _ => token(seq('"', repeat(choice(/[^"]/, '\\"', "\\\\")), '"')),
     number: $ => choice($.decimal, $.float),
     decimal: _ => token(/-?\d+/),
     float: _ => token(/-?(\d+(\.\d+)?|\.\d+)(e-?\d+)?/),
diff --git a/src/grammar.json b/src/grammar.json
index daba493..91fcce6 100644
--- a/src/grammar.json
+++ b/src/grammar.json
@@ -2015,6 +2015,10 @@
                 {
                   "type": "STRING",
                   "value": "\\\""
+                },
+                {
+                  "type": "STRING",
+                  "value": "\\\\"
                 }
               ]
             }
diff --git a/test/corpus/literals.txt b/test/corpus/literals.txt
index 6a62363..a3f3166 100644
--- a/test/corpus/literals.txt
+++ b/test/corpus/literals.txt
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 All Literals
 ================================================================================
 num = -4.3;
-escape = "\\";
 name = "Karl";
+esc = "\\";
 boolean = true;
 list = [1, 2, each [3, 4], [5, 6]];
 trailing_comma_list = [[1, 2,],];