Ghost Story: The classic small-town horror filled with creeping dread

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That kind of fear, though, based solidly in statistical reality, is almost too much to bear. It’s impossible to live your life constantly thinking about that possibility, that probability, lingering up ahead in the future. The simple fact is that for most of us, all the terrorists and all the murderers and all the faultily-constructed planes in all the world are not nearly as likely to hurt us than uncontrolled cell growth within our own bodies. Sure, I get a little jittery when my plane hits turbulence; and yes, I sneak around my own house with a baseball bat every time I hear a bump in the night. But truthfully, the only thing that really scares me is cancer.

Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: The next part of the book tells the story of Donald Wanderley, the child kidnapper from the prologue. He is a nephew of the dead club member of the Chowder Society and an author of a horror novel. While in Florida, Eva emerges from the form of the little girl and attempts to twist Donald's mind. He is able to resist, and kills her after she tries to take the form of a wasp to escape. Donald then prepares to go to San Francisco to hunt down Florence de Peyser.This is actually one of the "scariest" books I've read so far as atmosphere and actual emotional scare goes. What I liked about Ghost Story, other than the fact it was like a Spanish or Italian lover, is that it made a real attempt to stay grounded in reality. Obviously, when you are dealing with ghosts, there is a paranormal or supernatural element involved. The more things tilt towards those elements, the less scared I become, for the simple fact that I can no longer relate to the world being described. Peter Barnes, this badass young man ended up being my favorite character of them all. If it wasn't for him, this book would have gone in a whole different direction! And yet in this case there’s a very good reason for this unsettling behavior. You just have to let the story unfold—and the story begins with The Chowder Society.

After publication of his book he took a temporary job teaching at Berkeley, there he meets and falls madly in love with a mysterious beautiful girl. They get on famously, make wedding plans and one day she just disappears; next thing he knows she meets his brother David in another town, they fall in love and soon David dies under mysterious circumstances. The girl disappears again. Yes, he admitted to himself for the thousandth time, he did like it here. It went against his principles and his politics and probably the puritanism of his long-vanished religion too, but Sears’s library – Sears’s whole splendid house – was a place where a man felt at ease.”The scariest book I’ve ever read…It crawls under your skin and into your dreams.”— Chicago Sun-Times They get together to drink whiskey, smoke cigars and tell a ghost story. Each member of the group has secrets and sometimes you wonder if this “ghost story” really isn’t a story after all.