In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress. He is anxious, tormented, introspective. She is calm, passive, strangely detached. She says her name is Angie Maule.

In the small upstate town of Milburn, New York, four old friends meet to honor the traditions of the Chowder Society. They drink good whiskey and trade ghost stories. As chilling as these tales are, and as strangely prophetic, they pale before the horrific nightmares that began a year ago when one of their members attended a party for a visiting actress--and there died of a heart attack. Or was it fright? Ask the actress. She says her name is Ann-Veronica Moore.

In California, a talented young novelist teaching creative writing at Berkeley finds himself hopelessly obsessed with one of his students. She is exquisitely lovely, infernally elusive. She says her name is Alma Mobley.

What is the connection between these places, these people, these agonizing events?
So five old men who name themselves the 'chowder society' meet up on a monthly basis and tell each other ghost stories, the meetings are rather strange though, in the respect that each of the members of the Chowder Society are having frequent nightmares, it is pretty obvious that something happened early on in the book and this is their coping mechanism.

It ends up that there is a huge supernatural presence at work in this small town, things continue to escalate during a blizzard of epic proportions, with the help of one of the societies nephews and a plucky 17 year old they commence battle.

The book has everything required to make a good horror, although the book is called Ghost Story it is anything but.

It makes you question what is real and what isn't, at times it was almost like an early alternate take on the simulation theory that you often hear being discussed by .

Stephen King has heaped praise on this book and you can see exactly why, it reads so much like a King book that at times it felt as though he could have been the author of it, small town setting, strong quirky characters, a slow foreboding supernatural twist which grows as the plot develops, there were loads of similarities to Salems Lot especially.