It meets Leland Gaunt

Yes you read it right. If Stephen King was to fuse the book IT and Needful Things this would be it. But I wouldn't be surprised coz Straub and King are good friends and as they say good friends think alike. *shrugs* Anyhoo, the story is about 5 old men who created the Chowder Society where they meet twice a month to tell stories. When Edward Wanderley died, the 4 remaining friends started to tell ghost stories. What's scary about this is that the ghost in their stories came to life. It was just like IT in the S.King's. IT takes form of your worst fear... in this book it takes form of your dead relatives, dead friends and dead neighbors and it will drive you crazy. It all started when a girl named Eva Galli came to their town 50 or so years ago. Her fiancée died after cutting his arm on a farm equipment. He bleeds to death shouting words like "Kill her", "Cut her to pieces", etc. Then this girl mysteriously disappeared in town. Later in the book you would know that the Chowder Society members that time were merely teenagers accidentally killed her. There are a lot of strange scenes occurring in the book. Like when Sears (one of the CSmemebers) saw a pale boy on the stairs staring at her. And how they all dreamed about themselves being chased by a monster and seeing their friend's dead faces.

I say it’s like Leland Gaunt at S.K's Needful Things novel is because Eva Galli is more or less like Gaunt or shall I say her kind. They introduce themselves as the originals of the human supernaturals, which they appear as to how human's perceive them. At first I thought the books is one of the classic Vadic type of books coz every time they tell a story the story comes to life or the characters come to like. Reading this book made me jumpy whenever I hear things and I have to admit it kind of made me paranoid, coz you will really feel as if someone is lurking behind you just like Ricky felt or like Lewis felt when he took that job in the forest. I have never read a book that scared me, not since IT and now this is the second book that creeped me out.

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