![]() ![]() Fearing the police is on his trail at every turn, Wanderley begins checking in to hotels on their trip south, ultimately standing near the girl when she sleeps with a knife behind his back. We are first led to believe Wanderley has abducted this girl, though she still stays with him, and doesn’t complain, even when he uses rope to tie her to him so they sleep in the car. Here we find Don Wanderley on the road with a young girl who is not his daughter. Starting with the end of the story first, Straub takes us on a dangerous road trip. Of course, after reading it, what I discovered inside wasn’t just a ghost story, but it was THE ghost story, probably the best I’d ever read, and even today nothing really comes close. ![]() Sure, I’d seen Ghost Story on the paperback rack in the library, but really didn’t know what it was about. ![]() I’ll save Danse Macabre for another column, as here we will dive deep into the deep end with the first Peter Straub novel I ever read. If it wasn’t for Stephen King’s massive horror book Danse Macabre, I might not have ever read Ghost Story, or even heard of Peter Straub. ![]()
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