A Ghost Story Oil on canvas | 24 × 36 inches | 2026
I am a horror girl. I have read nearly everything Stephen King has ever written, and when he said of Peter Straub's Ghost Story, "The terror just mounts and mounts," I picked it up immediately. I trust his judgment.
A Ghost Story is a painted homage to Straub's 1979 novel. Four elderly men in a small upstate New York town form the Chowder Society — a group bound together by a shared secret they have never spoken aloud, who meet regularly to tell each other ghost stories over drinks. The table in the foreground with its four empty chairs and two waiting glasses is a direct reference to that gathering. Above the town, a massive pale figure gazes over it all. Something is watching, and the men at the table already know why.
Horror has always pulled me toward surrealism. The two feel like natural companions — both live in the space between what you see and what you know is there.
