Cofee Drinker:
Loved the frightening but confusing ghost story movie of the old men in the 80s. So much that can’t go into a 2 hour movie. Some characters left out. Loved the classic actors used for Sears and Ricky (Houseman and Astaire). And even a good actress for the elegant and mysterious Alma/Eva evil seductress. And even Wasson was good as Don Wanderley. Loved him in Body Double.
Interesting to learn more of the intricacies and doggedness of the Chowder Society to see their nightmare dreams and battles fought. Now the Gregory and Fenny characters make sense.
United States on Oct 07, 2023
Rachel W. White:
What a book! I saw the movie many years ago and loved it. The book, though, is so much more. This tale really gets to you. I couldn't stop reading for days till I finished. I feel shocked, unnerved and a bit scared. But, I highly recommend this horrifying tale to all!
United States on Oct 06, 2023
Bug:
The book was a little difficult to read, but enjoyable. Definitely not the movie with Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Melvyn Douglas. Still, I'll read it again so I can enjoy it better. The book is always better than the movie.
United States on Oct 04, 2023
L:
This book is a masterpiece in genre writing. It is everything you expect it to be and more than that. Go for it.
India on Jan 26, 2022
Rodrigo Calejon:
A narrativa é extremamente bem elaborada e interessante. A história é muito criativa para a época de sua escrita e os personagens são cativantes. A trama deixa algumas pontas soltas, mas não atrapalham a conclusão.
Brazil on Nov 13, 2020
E.Slevin:
A frightening tale with an array of endearing characters. I was interested in reading this book because I had seen the movie when I was a child; but the film only bore the skeletal structure of the original story ( a misshapen version, at that). The fully fleshed-out tale is well balanced, thrilling, and FUN...a delicious read, start to finish.
Canada on Feb 23, 2020
Steven Ramirez:
I first read Peter Straub’s terrifying Ghost Story decades ago, and I recently decided to pick it up again to see if my impressions had changed. They hadn’t. The work is mesmerizing. The author has created in the fictional town of Millburn a waystation steeped in snow where people live their separate lives, oblivious to the horrid things lurking in the forest waiting to strike. Eventually, these corrupt creatures come for the hapless residents, and they are caught unawares.
In many ways, this tale of ghostly revenge is instructive in how it shows us the consequences of mistreatment people visit on one another. The town itself is filled with characters surviving in escalating degrees of guilt, and it is precisely these stains on their souls that mark the victims for the marauders intent on feeding on them.
I admire this book so much, and I wanted to share three things I learned.
Turn It Up to Eleven
If you’re going to get revenge, it’s better if, instead of concentrating on a few elderly townsfolk, you turn it up to eleven and destroy the whole town. The chief villain who is known by many names—all of them with the initials...
United States on Jun 12, 2019
Sergio:
Una novela de horror bastante entretenida para quien tiene la tolerancia de leer a Peter Straub, yo lo comparo con Eso de Stephen King por la longitud y el final inesperado definitivamente a must read para los fans de las novelas de horror
Mexico on Jun 27, 2017
Jana L.Perskie:
In October 1929, three weeks after Black Monday, when the stock market collapsed, five of Milburn, New York's finest young men murdered an attractive and exotic young woman. There was no premeditation involved. In fact her death was an accident, although her burial was non conventional, to say the least. The event has been kept a secret for half a century. Is it coming back to haunt them and the town where she died? Now, fifty years later, the same men, much older and still residing in Milburn, find themselves terrorized by prophetic nightmares. In the dreams several of them die. And terrible things are happening in their small, sleepy town .
Edward Wanderly, one of the quintet died the year before under tragic circumstances, which lead the others to believe that foul play had been involved. He appears to have died of fright. After their friend's death, the group of four begins to meet weekly, calling themselves "The Chowder Society." They dress formally for the occasion, drink fine brandy, smoke the best cigars, and proceed to tell each other haunting stories about their past, although they never mention the murder. They all seem to be in denial about the...
United States on Jan 09, 2005
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| Total Reviews | 95 reviews | 279 reviews | 174 reviews |
| ISBN-10 | 1617933082 | ||
| Item Weight | 1.8 pounds | ||
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| Best Sellers Rank | #6,953 in Ghost Fiction | #243 in Ghost Fiction#315 in Hard-Boiled Mystery#1,696 in Murder Thrillers | #15 in Ghost Fiction#33 in Children's Spine-Chilling Horror#102 in Children's Fantasy & Magic Books |
| ASIN | B0011CYQ7Y | ||
| ISBN-13 | 978-1617933080 | ||
| Publisher | Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; Book Club edition | ||
| Language | English | ||
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United Kingdom on Nov 27, 2023