by Peter Straub · Pocket Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780671685638
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«Ghost Story» is Peter Straub's horror novel, published by Pocket Books in paperback (560 pages, in English).
Four elderly friends from Milburn, New York, carry the weight of an act they committed in their youth and believed they could bury. When the past returns to collect its due, supernatural phenomena shake the quiet town and prove to them that some sins do not go unpunished.
The novel originally appeared in 1979; this edition is from 1989. The cover includes a comment by Stephen King and presents Peter Straub as co-author of 'The Talisman' and 'Black House'.
For readers of horror and supernatural suspense, interested in ghost stories, haunted houses, and secrets from the past.
Peter Francis Straub was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with Stephen King. He explored the mystery genre with the Blue Rose trilogy, consisting of Koko (1988), Mystery (1990) and The Throat (1993). He fused the supernatural with crime fiction in Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) and the related In the Night Room (2004). For the Library of America, he edited the volume H. P. Lovecraft: Tales and the anthology American Fantastic Tales. Straub received such literary honors as the Bram Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and International Horror Guild Award.
