This much we know.įor my part, Straub’s acknowledgement came as something of a surprise as Straub’s approach to fiction has always struck me as quite different to the plodding accessibility of King’s Victorian realism in which the world is just as real and fixed as the characters uncovering it. The origin story behind Straub’s novel has been extensively documented: Straub has repeatedly stated that Ghost Story was inspired by Stephen King’s early vampire novel Salem’s Lot, a tip of the hat that was later acknowledged by King in his non-fiction collection Danse Macabre where Ghost Story was written up as one of the most influential and structurally effective novels in 20 th Century horror. After all, it is not and could never be a book by Peter Straub. It is easy to see why people might hate this film. Ballard James Salter Japan Japanese Film Kim Longinotto Last Night LGBT Literary Criticism Manga Masters of Cinema Maurice Pialat Misogyny Noir Olivier Assayas Ooku Pedro Almodovar Politics Postmodernism Psychological Thriller Psychology Racism Religion review Roman Polanski Science Fiction Sexism Short Fiction Some Thoughts On Stalker Stripp'd Theory THE ZONE Thriller TV Video Games Videovista Search Search for: Tag Cloud 2014 2015 American Film Andrei Tarkovsky Anime Art House Art House Film Blasphemous Geometries British Film Capitalism Claude Chabrol Colin Barrett Comedy Comics Consumerism Crime Crime Film criticism Death Documentaries Documentary Empathy Existentialism Fantasy Feminism Film film criticism Film Juice FilmJuice French Film Fumi Yoshinaga Futurismic gender Genre Gestalt Mash GLBT Hadrian's Wall Heart of Darkness Horror J. Ivan’s Childhood (1962) – Adolescent Dreamscapes.Andrei Rublev (1966) – Some We Call Nothing at All.REVIEW – What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984).

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