Title: Ghost Story

Title: Ghost Story Title Record # 10084
Author: Peter Straub
Date: 1979-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: Four prominent citizens of a small town in upstate New York who share guilt over something that happened in their youth are revisited late in life by a destructive evil force which uses their guilt as an opportunity to destroy them as well as the entire town.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1979^ⓘAbridged/Translated by Matti Kannosto	Finnish	Kummitusjuttu
1979^ⓘTranslated by Frank Straschitz.	French	Ghost Story ou le fantôme de Milburn
1982	Italian	La casa dei fantasmi
1988^ⓘTranslated by Frank Straschitz.	French	Le fantôme de Milburn
1990^ⓘTranslated by Frank Straschitz.	French	Ghost story

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Ghost Story	1979-00-00	Peter Straub	The Leisure Circle / BCE	5254.8		507	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Tom Adams
Ghost Story	1979-00-00	Peter Straub	Futura	0-7088-1604-5	C$3.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	567	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Ghost Story	1979-04-00	Peter Straub	Coward, McCann & Geoghegan	0-698-10959-7	$10.95^?$: US dollar	483	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Lubalin Associates , Angela Cummings
Ghost Story	1979-05-00	Peter Straub	Jonathan Cape	0-224-01686-5	£5.50^?£: UK pound	507	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Tom Adams
Ghost Story	1980-04-00	Peter Straub	Pocket Books	0-671-82685-9	$2.95^?$: US dollar	567	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Ghost Story	1981-12-00	Peter Straub	Pocket Books	0-671-82685-9	$3.75^?$: US dollar	567	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Ghost Story	1985-03-00	Peter Straub	Hill House	0-931771-00-5	$50.00^?$: US dollar	483	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Stephen Gervais
Ghost Story	1994-00-00	Peter Straub	Pocket Books	0-671-68563-5	$6.99^?$: US dollar	567	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Ghost Story	1997-02-00	Peter Straub	Warner Books UK	0-7515-0702-4	£5.99^?£: UK pound	507	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Ghost Story	1998-10-00	Peter Straub	Pocket Books	0-671-68563-5	$6.99^?$: US dollar	567	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Ghost Story	2003-03-00	Peter Straub	The Stephen King Horror Library	0-9657231-3-5	$10.99^?$: US dollar	xiii+ 483	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Ghost Story	2008-08-28	Peter Straub	Gollancz	978-0-575-08464-3	£7.99^?£: UK pound	528	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Ghost Story	2012-00-00	Peter Straub	The Easton Press		$64.70^?$: US dollar	i+ 483	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Ghost Story	2012-01-00	Peter Straub	G. P. Putnam's Sons / SFBC	978-1-61793-308-0	$12.99^?$: US dollar	483	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Ghost Story	2012-04-30	Peter Straub	Brilliance Audio	978-0-671-72588-4	$15.95^?$: US dollar		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel
Ghost Story	2012-12-20	Peter Straub	Gollancz	978-0-575-08736-1	£4.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Ghost Story	2015-09-22	Peter Straub	Berkley Books	978-1-101-98920-3	$11.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Dinu Lazar
Ghost Story	2016-02-02	Peter Straub	Berkley Books	978-1-101-98919-7	$15.00^?$: US dollar	528	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Ghost Story	2020-00-00	Peter Straub	Berkley Books	978-1-101-98919-7	$17.00^?$: US dollar	518	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Ghost Story	2020-09-08	Peter Straub	Berkley Books	978-0-593-19810-0	$9.99^?$: US dollar	518	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Ghost Story	date unknown	Peter Straub	Pocket Books	0-671-44198-1	$3.95^?$: US dollar	567	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Ghost Story	date unknown	Peter Straub	Pocket Books	0-671-42377-0	$3.50^?$: US dollar	567	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Ghost Story	date unknown	Peter Straub	Pocket Books	0-671-68563-5	$7.99^?$: US dollar	567	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Ghost Story	date unknown	Peter Straub	Pocket Books	0-671-68563-5	$6.99^?$: US dollar	567	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Ghost Story	date unknown	Peter Straub	Pocket Books	0-671-82685-9	$2.95^?$: US dollar	567	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel

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Reviews

Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (1979) in The New York Times, April 3, 1979
Review by Donn Vicha (1980) in Science Fiction Review, Winter 1980
Review by Stanley Wiater (1981) in Fangoria, April 1981
Review by Robert T. Garcia [as by Robert Garcia] (1982) in American Fantasy, February 1982
Review by Peter Nicholls (1988) in Horror: 100 Best Books, (1988) , reprinted in:
Horror: 100 Best Books (1988)
Horror: 100 Best Books (1992)
Horror: The 100 Best Books (1998)
Genre Fiction: The Roaring Years: A Collection of Commentaries and Reviews (2022)
Genre Fiction: The Roaring Years: A Collection of Commentaries and Reviews (2022)