Peter Straub is a well renowned author who has famously collaborated with Stephen King on two of his novels, The Talisman and Black House, and who has a quiye lengthy back catalogue of his own as well. But of all of his novels, many of which have failed to impress this paticular reviewer over the years, Ghost Story remains arguably his best and most successful solo novel to date and was also made into a film featuring Fred Astaire! A group of old-timers regularly gather together in the town of Milburn once a month to exchange ghost stories about their past in a bid to ease their restless dreams. All four of them are plagued by nightmares almost every night ~ ...  Read the complete review