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Originally posted by noctuary
If you do like Ghost Story, I'd suggest reading If You Could See Me Now and Julia next. Unfortunately, Straub's work has seen a decline in recent years, and I don't think anything he's written lately has been up to the standard of his earlier work.
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That
is unfortunate. One of the exciting things about
Ghost Story for me has been knowing that he's got a decent-sized body of work. In the past year, it's the only modern horror novel I've read that's really grabbed me (before this, I read F. Paul Wilson's
Midnight Mass, which had an interesting premise, but sort of fell apart in the execution, in my opinion). I'll check out your suggestions.
As for King, should I bother with
Carrie, then? I really liked the movie, but that might be due to De Palma more than King.