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Summary: Real fine horror novel.
Review: This was my first Straub Novel and it was great. Not too many books have made me nervous while reading in an empty house at night. Lock your doors when you read this one. Oh yeah, try not to dream.
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Summary: It's a good book
Review: I thought this book has its moments. Especially when the members tell their stories about their past. I really like the one that Sears James told. Which later turns out to be an intricate part of the plot. Eventhough I recommend reading this book, I thought that the ending could have been done better because the last chapters were a let down. It seems that Mr Straub was rushing to finish the book. Maybe he had a deadline to meet or something. So he just created the last chapter with out much thought and detail like his earlier chapters.
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Summary: I agree: A CLASSIC
Review: If you like ghost stories, don't miss this one. Wonderfully constructed plot, loved it. But you need some patience: The complexity and the length of the book, I'm afraid, were not meant for MTV-fans.
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Summary: My favorite Book
Review: This is my favorite Book. It will get into your dreams. Also loved The Stand (Steven King), Cabal (Clive Barker), and Mr. Murder (Dean Knootz)
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Summary: If you loved The Stand, read this book
Review: This book is an all-time favorite of mine. If you loved The Stand (Stephen King), read this book. Very well-crafted and just an extremely cool idea for a book. Also, if you've read this book and love it like I do, I'd recommend The Hellfire Club (also by Peter Straub -- don't let the title put you off), and The Bone Collector (Jeffrey Deaver). These are the kinds of books that make you wish you could write!!
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Summary: Outstanding and really creepy
Review: A great read when you're snowed in!
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Summary: Intricately spun tale of horror and mystery
Review: This truly masterful creation of suspense and terror begins rather slowly but picks up speed as the characters in the book realize that they are being hunted by a terrifying being from their past. The mystery is why they are being hunted (it is not simply revenge) and by whom (it is not really who, or what, you may think it is)! The one thing I can tell you is to avoid the movie by the same name at all costs. It is a terrible film and it complete destroys the entire premise behind this wonderful book.
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Summary: Damned good!
Review: Extremely well crafted. Designed to give you shivers
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Summary: One of my all-time favorites.
Review: The Stand, Swan Song, They Thirst and GHOST STORY are my favorite horror books of all-time. Ghost Story is a
classic.
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Summary: Definitely a Classic
Review: Peter Straub's "Ghost Story" has become a classic and rightly so. The fear in "Ghost Story" is psychological, it comes from within rather than from without. Much of it is anticipatory. What happens in "Ghost Story" could really happen to any one of us. As such, it is far more chilling than more recent horror novels, most of which end up being either silly or sickening.Straub manages to keep us a little off-balance throughout the book, thus heightening the suspense. We think we know what's coming next, but we're never really sure. This uncertainty kept me turning pages and reading far into the night, long after I should have turned out my bedside light and gone to sleep. The characters and situations in "Ghost Story" seemed totally believable even though we "knew" the events portrayed "couldn't" have happened. This made them all the more chilling, at least in my opinion. Several nights I slept with my bedroom light on and even felt haunted by the book when morning came. I found the setting of "Ghost Story" absolutely perfect and felt the book's atmosphere only added to its overall "ghostly" quality. I was lucky enough to attend college in that part of the United States and I found the setting so "dead on." For me, at least, "Ghost Story" is the horror story against which I measure all others. So far, nothing else has managed to measure up to the high standards it set. It's truly a classic and rightly so.
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