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Sep 08, 2020 | ISBN 9780593198100 Buy
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Sep 08, 2020 | ISBN 9780593198100
Feb 02, 2016 | ISBN 9781101989197
Sep 22, 2015 | ISBN 9781101989203
#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…
Peter Straub is the New York Times–bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. In the Night Room and lost boy, lost girl were winners of the Bram Stoker Award, as was his collection 5 Stories. Straub is the editor of numerous anthologies, including the two-volume American… More about Peter Straub
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
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