Ghost Story - by Peter Straub (Paperback)

About the Book

"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"--

Book 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...

Review Quotes

"Peter Straub was, quite simply, one of the finest writers of the last hundred years. He was a poet who painted the beauty and the darkness of the human heart with fine words and exhilarating stories. His fiction disturbed, evoked emotion, and changed all of us who read it. We were lucky to have him."--Neil Gaiman

Praise for Ghost Story

"The terror just mounts and mounts."--Stephen King

"The scariest book I've ever read...It crawls under your skin and into your dreams."--Chicago Sun-Times

"Not since Edgar Allan Poe has an author taken such liberties with his readers' nerves...A masterwork of horror."--Cosmopolitan

"One of the most frightening novels you will ever read."--The Dallas Morning News

"The best thing of its kind since Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House."--Newsweek

"Superb horror."--The Washington Post Book World

About the Author

Peter Straub authored numerous bestselling novels, including Ghost Story, Floating Dragon, Shadowland, and Julia--as well as The Talisman and Black House, which he co-authored with Stephen King. He also published short fiction, poetry, and a graphic novel. A prolific Grand Master of Horror, he won the British Fantasy Award; ten Bram Stoker Awards; three International Horror Guild Awards; ten World Fantasy Awards; and was the recipient of several Lifetime Achievement Awards.

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