Ghost Story, Peter Straub
Ghost Story, Peter Straub
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Ghost Story

Author: Peter Straub

Narrator: Buck Schirner

Unabridged: 22 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/01/2012

Synopsis

#1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub’s classic tale of horror, secrets, and the dangerous ghosts of the past...

What was the worst thing you’ve ever done?

In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories—some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives.

But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever...

About Peter Straub

Peter Straub is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. They include Ghost Story, Koko, Mr. X, In the Night Room, and two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. He has written two volumes of poetry and two collections of short fiction, and he edited the Library of America’s edition of H. P. Lovecraft: Tales and the Library of America’s two-volume anthology, American Fantastic Tales. He has won the British Fantasy Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards, and ten World Fantasy Awards. In 1997, he was named Grand Master at the World Horror Convention. In 2005, he was given the Horror Writers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. At the World Fantasy Convention in 2010, he was given the WFC’s Life Achievement Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maciek on December 15, 2010

I don't think one can truly rate Ghost Story as a novel without acknowledging the fact that it's a literary homage to the classics of the genre. Indeed, two characters bear the surnames of Hawthorne and James. This is my introduction to the work of Peter Straub. Having read The Talisman and Black Hou......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on March 13, 2022

An entertaining horror novel with exceptional frightening factor that sadly loses some potential and momentum towards the end. The first half is some of the best horror I´ve read, not much splatter or violence, just the extremely detailed description with some really scary scenes that fuel the reade......more

Goodreads review by LIsa Noell "Rocking the chutzpah!" on April 21, 2022

This story reminds me of when I went to Spokane, Washington and tested for the Navy. The whole damn thing was nearly a dream sequence. Even checking into the Hotel, The Davenport, In Spokane, Washington, "where the Governers ball" was going on! It was snowing like the world was ending..Then a Hotel,......more

Goodreads review by Dirk on February 12, 2013

An intelligent and ambitious novel, Ghost Story has received some well deserved acclaim. That is, however, not enough. Not even close. This is a book that should be re-introduced to a whole new generation of readers. It really is that good. Stephen King himself lists it as one of the best horror nov......more

Goodreads review by Lou on January 24, 2012

A few words i found by Stephen King about this novel "Probably Ghost Story by Peter Straub is the best of the supernatural novels to be published in the wake of the three books that kicked off a new horror "wave" in the seventies—those three, of course, being Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and The O......more

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