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Ghost story

Peter Straub

1979507 pagesabout 8–12 hours
1979
first published
  • 1979Cape · 507 pages · ENGISBN 9780224016865
  • 1979Leisure Circle · 507 pages · ENG
  • 1980Pocket Books · 567 pages · ENGISBN 9780698109599
  • 1992Time Warner Paperbacks · 512 pagesISBN 9780708816042
  • 1997Warner Books · 507 pages · ENGISBN 9780751507027
  • 2003The Stephen King Horror LibraryISBN 9780965723138
  • 1991Simon & Schuster Audio · ENGISBN 9780671725884
  • 1989Pocket · 567 pages · ENGISBN 9780671685638
MysteriousEerieLong read

In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress. He is anxious, tormented, introspective. She is calm, passive, strangely detached. She says her name is Angie Maule.

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MoodScaredEerieCurious
AtmosphereTenseCosmicNoir

How it reads

Plot intensityEventful

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ThemesJustice

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