However, this is a well written eerie story that covers the adult lifetimes of five men, now at retirement age. At the World Fantasy Convention in 2010, he was given the WFC's Life Achievement Award.If you are looking for a book that is short, fast paced, has thrills in every chapter, and lots lots of ghosts, this isn’t it. In 2005, he was given the Horror Writers Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1997, he was named Grand Master at the World Horror Convention. He has won the British Fantasy Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards, and ten World Fantasy Awards. Lovecraft: Tales and the Library of America's two-volume anthology, American Fantastic Tales. He has written two volumes of poetry and two collections of short fiction, and he edited the Library of America's edition of H. X, In the Night Room, and two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House.
"Superb horror."- The Washington Post Book WorldĪbout The Author Peter Straub is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. "The best thing of its kind since Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House."- Newsweek "One of the most frightening novels you will ever read."- The Dallas Morning News "Not since Edgar Allan Poe has an author taken such liberties with his readers' nerves.A masterwork of horror."- Cosmopolitan Review Quotes 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 And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever. But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives. 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. What was the worst thing you've ever done? Book Synopsis #1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub's classic tale of horror, secrets, and the dangerous ghosts of the past.
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