Ghost Story, directed by John Irvin". Time Out. London. Archived from the original on June 6, 2016 . Retrieved December 14, 2017.

In a Sufi fable, the elephant fell in love with a firefly, and imagined that it shone for no other creature but he; and when it flew long distances away, he was confident that at the center of its light was the image of an elephant.” A woman has come to town, a woman who's been here before, though right now, no one realizes it. She's come to finish what she started, and this time she's brought along a few friends. No one knows it, but she is an evil being who wafts through the centuries, bewitching gullible men with her beauty, before destroying them and those around them, then disappearing in search of fresh prey. Must Read Horror Articles 30 October 2023 Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet… The opening lines of Peter Straub's magnificent paranormal horror, Ghost Story. Boy does this one start as it means to go on. 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.I know that I’m keeping this vague but due to spoilers, it’s best to go into this one not knowing much about what’s evil and why the men of The Chowder Society are haunted. Now I will leave you with my favorite quote courtesy of one of the many side characters whose name I have long since forgotten. This is a story about a beautiful town in New York state, how evil can sneak up unnoticed, unseen and unassumed, manipulate and prey upon the inhabitants, and watch the slow descent into madness and chaos. Milburn was fleshed out similar to King's set up of Salem's Lot. Being written in 1979, it shared a simila Vanderbilt on The Secret of the Sul’Dam: Subtle Changes to the Way the One Power Works in The Wheel of Time TV Series 49 mins ago The Time Out film guide deemed it a "disastrous distillation of Peter Straub's overrated but at least tolerably coherent novel." [17] TV Guide awarded the film two out of four stars, criticizing Cohen's screenplay, but adding: "Director John Irvin does manage to evoke some mood and atmosphere from the snowy New England setting, and the performances from the four veteran lead players are enjoyable." [18]

This is a book that combines the chill of the New York winter with the arthritic helplessness of old man nightmares. It plays shamelessly with reality. The devices Straub incorporated in this book are so subtle that they had to be corrupted or ignored entirely when a movie was made based on this book.Ghost Story by Peter Straub has been on my to-read-list for at least 20 years. It’s one of those books that I needed to read, especially if you’re a horror genre lover. TIH 533: Joe Sullivan on Cemetery Gates Media and Publishing In this podcast, Joe Sullivan talks about Cemetery Gates Media,… Ghost Story is a 1981 American supernatural horror film directed by John Irvin and starring Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson, and Alice Krige. Based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Peter Straub, it follows a group of elderly businessmen in New England who gather to recount their involvement in a woman's death decades prior when one of them suspects her ghost has been haunting him. And by those words The Chowder Society, a group of five diverse, old friends, changes its weekly meetings from the commonplace, which could be called fun, to dark and somber. After all, one of them has died, nearly one year to the day, with a facial expression frozen in terror. They are four now. Closer? Yes, possibly. But they are shaken. Nightmares have replaced their dreams. What haunts their sleep feels far too real. It's time to talk about the memory fifty years past. A memory that's more than somber - pushed down, buried deep, so as to remain there forever.