RIP Peter Straub (1943-2022). If you don't know the only(!) Hollywood movie based on his work, check out Ghost Story. It has been somewhat neglected, which is unfair. It's an excellent ghostly horror film.
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Issue 58 - Story Openings
‘What’s Inside’ by Peter Kenny Hoppy Monday! Early to work for once, you stop to watch Happy Hoppy’s Summer Farm Experience getting rea...
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Some good news - Helen Grant's story 'The Sea Change' from ST11 has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. This follows an inqu...
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This is a running review of the book Spirits of the Dead. Find out more here . My opinion on the penultimate story in this collection has... -
Cover illo by Sam Dawson, for Steve Duffy's story 'Forever Chemicals', which offers an interesting take on the London of the e...
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I owned GHOST STORY on videotape when I was young, and the death of Douglas Fairbanks Jr's character lingered in my mind the most. I now own a 1981 paperback which I bought in Cambridge, Mass ten years ago. It has been lying, unread, on my shelf for the past decade, because I had always thought of Peter Straub as one of those tedious mainstream authors, despite his familiarity with the genre and its most esteemed practitioners. Perhaps this autumn or winter will be the time that I finally read GHOST STORY?
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