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''Ghost Story'' is a 1979 horror novel by Creator/PeterStraub. Straub has cited Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/SalemsLot'' as a partial inspiration for the story.

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''Ghost Story'' is a 1979 horror novel by Creator/PeterStraub. Notably, Straub has cited Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/SalemsLot'' as a partial inspiration for the story.
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''Ghost Story'' is a 1979 horror novel by Creator/PeterStraub.

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''Ghost Story'' is a 1979 horror novel by Creator/PeterStraub.
Creator/PeterStraub. Straub has cited Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/SalemsLot'' as a partial inspiration for the story.
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* SnowMeansDeath: The bulk of the deaths in the novel take place in Milburn during a two-month snowy period, culminating in a [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday blizzard on Christmas Eve/Day.]]

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* SnowMeansDeath: The bulk of the novel’s deaths in the novel take place in Milburn during a two-month snowy period, culminating in a [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday blizzard on Christmas Eve/Day.]]

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* InMediasRes: The novel opens with a man and a little girl [[spoiler:who turn out to be Don Wanderley and “Angie”]] driving across country to Florida before shifting to the events in Milburn from the previous winter.




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* ShoutOut: The novel has Don and co. confronting [[spoiler:and killing]] Gregory and Fenny in a movie theater during an (unattended) screening of ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}''.
* SnowMeansDeath: The bulk of the deaths in the novel take place in Milburn during a two-month snowy period, culminating in a [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday blizzard on Christmas Eve/Day.]]

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