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de Peter Straub (Author) "One day early in October Frederick Hawthorne, a seventy-year-old lawyer who had lost very little to the years, left his house on Melrose Avenue in..." En savoir plus
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Stephen KingThe terror just mounts and mounts.

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

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In life, not every sin goes unpunished.

GHOST STORY

For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder.

Peter Straub's classic bestseller is a work of "superb horror" (The Washington Post Book World) that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time -- and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.


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5.0étoiles sur 5 "What's the most terrible thing you've ever done?", Jui 18 2003
Par P. M. Ball "louiswin" (Houston, Texas United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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"What's the most terrible thing you've ever done?"

"I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing" This is how the book opens and comes to life. Boy, does it ever! I first read "Ghost Story" 22 years ago when I was 17 years old. I remember the movie coming out shortly after I read it. The movie version is okay, but really chops up the book. Where is the Lewis Benedikt character in the movie? ... and Edward Wanderly is the mayor of Milburn? No, I'm not going to do a review of the movie, but I must say, that if you really want to enjoy this classic book called "Ghost Story", by all means, read the book where the characters are so rich and full of life.

In Milburn, New York, Ricky Hawthorne, Sears James, Edward Wanderly, Lewis Benedikt and John Jaffrey are young friends on their way to professions in law and medicine. They accidentally kill a woman named Eva Galli. This group living in the 1920s panic and they decide the only thing they can do, cover up Eva's death. They put her "dead" body in a car that was loaned to them and together, push the vehicle into a lake. When the car is sinking they notice something that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Eva moves ("Jesus, she can't, she's dead!"). But yes, it appears that Eva is still alive and they see that she is grinning at them from the rear view window. Grinning! In the book, "Ghost Story" is a tale of supernatural revenge and the Eva Galli character is indeed very evil.

Return 50 years later to Milburn. The group of men are now called the Chowder Society. They have regular meetings and swap Ghost Stories, but have vowed not to speak of Eva Galli and her death. Suddenly, Edward Wanderly dies while interviewing a young actress named Anne-Veronica Moore at a party hosted by John Jaffrey. Edward apparently dies of fright. The remaining members of the Chowder Society are possessed by terrible nightmares where they die. They send for Edwards's young nephew, Don Wanderly, who is a writer of horror novels. Don wrote a recent book called "The Nightwatcher" based, we learn later, on his own experiences with Eva, known to him as Alma Mobley.

Peter Straub wrote a very cerebral book. Ghosts, known in the book as shape shifters, are entities that have been around when humans first began to gather knowledge. "We (Alma talking to Don inside one of Don's hallucinations) have always lived in your dreams and in your worst nightmares" ... the most dreadful thing!

5 Stars!

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3.0étoiles sur 5 One of Stephen Kings Favorites., Fév 5 2010
This Novel does a good job of atmosphere and character development. It does a good job of creating tension and build up. Some parts of it do a good job of creeping out the reader more then most other books are capable of. I can't say that in the end I was satisfied with the conclusion but did enjoy the build up like most books in this genre.

Much like this review i'm writing alot of people will give up reading the book at quarter to half way through. The writer takes alot of time and focus on the build up and suspension which has two effects and one of those is to bore some readers waiting for some pay off. The book is almost made up of different short storys that all combine together and some of these sections you will enjoy others may have you wishing you had of picked up Stephen Kings the Dome instead. This book is hard to find in stores and will eventually probably disappear from Amazon so buy it while you have a chance. Worth a read, better in my opinion then most horror I have read and different from the regular Stephen King I usually read.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 "The Most Dreadful Thing...", Mai 1 2002
The idyllic little country town of Milburn, Connecticut, is under supernatural siege. Inexplicable suicides and curious accidents are occurring. Livestock are found mutilated in snowy fields, with no footprints around them. Dead loved ones visit the living - who die under bizarre circumstances, shortly after. A dwindling number of affluent old men in the community, who call themselves the Chowder Society, know something about it. But they're not talking. Because they can't believe, themselves, the reason why - and they're running scared, because they're the victims of choice.

This is Straub's most intricate, atmospheric, and satisfying novel, constructed as a highly convoluted Chinese puzzle-box of interlocking stories, with a single underlying, unifying theme. The Chowder Society gather together to tell ghost stories, all centered around exorcizing an unexplainable series of events from their collective youth, which appears to be the root cause of the nightmare events in their little town, not to mention their own lives. "What's the most terrible thing you've ever done?" is the question they continually ask each other. "I won't tell you that," is their pat club answer, "but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing..." From this, Straub derives his springboard of individual ghost and horror stories, pondering the origin of all humanity's nightmares - and explains them with a uniquely novel answer, better discovered by the reader for himself than revealed (beware, some of the reviews below contain spoilers).

Straub generally demands great patience of his readers, and such is the case here, but he pays off in spades for those who stay the course. The style is occasionally a bit over-the-top, but it achieves the desired effect.

I've read this book a few times, and enjoy it more with successive readings. It's a brilliant piece. Very involving, endlessly fascinating, and scary as frozen hell for the holidays.

Treat yourself. Don't miss it.

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2.0étoiles sur 5 I'm glad I bought a thrift store copy
...because i would have regretted spending a lot of money on this book. It was one of the most boring horror novels I have read.

First of all, it isn't about ghosts! Read more

Publié le Mai 16 2002

2.0étoiles sur 5 Ambivalence..........but, overall, thumbs down
I have mixed feelings about Ghost Story. For one, the title is misleading in that the book is NOT about ghosts in the traditional sense. Read more
Publié le Avril 22 2002

5.0étoiles sur 5 One of the Best Horror Novels Ever
I read Ghost Story for the first time as a teenager and read a lot of horror, when the book was new. I don't read as much horror now, but wanted to revisit this one. Read more
Publié le Avril 2 2002 par Kenneth French

5.0étoiles sur 5 Aviod the movie and read the book...
One day while reading at my old job one of my boss's asked me if I had ever read Ghost Story. I had not. So i picked it up and read this great book with real fever. Read more
Publié le Mars 30 2002 par scott belba

5.0étoiles sur 5 Definitely a Classic
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... Read more
Publié le Mars 5 2002

5.0étoiles sur 5 Straub's masterpiece
I have read every Peter Straub book ever written (excluding Marriages, of course), and this is the best of them all (with Shadowland and If You Could See Me Now running close... Read more
Publié le Mars 1 2002 par acerman

5.0étoiles sur 5 A timeless horror novel
This is the kind of book one can pick up during any decade and the story would still feel timeless. Its a very literary horror novel, different than the usual genre's reliance on... Read more
Publié le Fév 25 2002 par FloozyFlapper1926

4.0étoiles sur 5 staub's best
the only reason i'm writing this puppy is because after reading all of straub's books, ghost story is the best. Read more
Publié le Déc 15 2001

3.0étoiles sur 5 Entertaining
Straub's great strength as a writer is that he writes with considerable style; his weakness is that his work is rather loosely structured. Read more
Publié le Déc 13 2001 par Gary F. Taylor

2.0étoiles sur 5 An enormous disappointment
I'd been saving this title for twenty years, and finally decided to read it based on how many good reviews I'd read of it. Read more
Publié le Nov. 19 2001

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