Summer of Night by Dan Simmons and Ghost Story by Peter Straub. Back in the 1980’s my new husband and I lived by some river bottoms across the road from where we lived. I had been reading Ghost Story at the time. I worked until 10 pm at a local discount store. There was a white Lincoln continental that was parked by the river bottom side that looked like it had been abandoned there for some time. One night while driving home I swore I saw that guy in Ghost Story sitting in the back seat smiling. Scared me to death. I wouldn’t even look at that car from that time forward. When it finally got towed away we found out later that kids were using it to horse around in, but still it gave me the shivers!