Ghost Story.
STRAUB, Peter.
Ghost Story.
First Edition of Peter Straub's Ghost Story; Signed by Him
New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1979.
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Item Number: 151987
First edition of this classic novel, basis for the 1981 film. Octavo, original half-cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Straub on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket type designed by Lubalin Associates. Wasp pin by Angela Cummings of Tiffany and Co.
Straub recalls that Ghost Story started as a result of reading classic American supernatural fiction, including Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot. He says: "I reread Hawthorne and James, and went out and got all of Lovecraft and a lot of the books by his 'set'—this was because I wanted to find out what my tradition was, since I was by then pretty firmly in the field—I also read Bierce, Wharton's ghost stories, and a lot Europeans... The first thing I thought of was having a bunch of old men tell stories to each other—and then I hoped I could think of some device that would link all the stories. I very much like the idea of stories set down in novels—a lot of my life seems to have been spent listening to older people tell me stories about their families, their youth, and all the rest. And it seemed like a formal challenge."
