Omniscient POV in Peter Straub’s Ghost Story

Peter Straub’s Ghost Story is one of the best horror novels I’ve ever read. Is this because it’s written in omniscient POV? That’s not the only reason, but it’s a primary one.

As I mentioned in Third Person Subjective Omniscient POV in Hell House, sometimes you must read for a bit before you fully discover what POV the author is using. This is true of Straub’s 1979 novel.

Discovering the book’s POV

Chapter 2 of the Prologue (3ff) presents in an opening frame a man who has abducted a yo...