As I was running out of possibilities I asked the guy who was working at the Grove Bookstore if there was a horror book I was overlooking. In 1980 when there was no such thing as the internet I relied on the clerk at my favorite bookstore to guide me to something I might like. The answer I gave that summer is the same answer I would give to the question in 2016 Ghost Story by Peter Straub. Throughout that long summer full of suspense and my screaming “don’t do that!” in my head just before someone on the page “did that” I was asked which book was the scariest. Revisited the classics of the genre by Shirley Jackson, Daphne DuMaurier, and Oscar Wilde. In the summer of 1980 the topic was horror fiction. I would inevitably binge read within a genre. When I was a young man summer always meant time to read for fun.
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