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Title: Great Start. Muddled ending.
Review: I've read only two of Straub's books, this one and "Lost Boy. Lost Girl." The latter is definitely more consistant, but "Ghost Story" has more moments of brilliance. In fact, if the second half had been as good as the first, it would probably rank as one of my favorite novels EVER (if not THE best). Unfortunately, once the evil force is no longer a mysterious entity (it is explained in excruciatingly disappointing detail), the creepiness ends and it becomes a convoluted monster hunt. By the time I reached the bizarre and rather anticlimactic conclusion, I didn't care anymore.Despite my disappointment with the conclusion, I still consider this one of the scariest books I've read in a LONG time.
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