Ghost Story

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

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

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

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

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