Through a chance meeting at the store, Jake befriends Billy Yellowbird, who has recently moved to town with his sister Dove and their mother. Family dinners each week star the eccentric Uncle C, who owns a store of odd kitschy objects downtown (the Occultorium) and is best friends with Lex, a video store owner who went all in on Betamax and is now regretting that decision big time.

Author Craig Davidson places Jake firmly in middle-class America territory: he is the sole child in a stable family living in Niagara Falls, a classic and complicated American town. Jake has suffered more than his share of bullying in school and intends to spend his summer with a singular life goal: avoiding his nemesis. So this is a quiet ghost story and, because of that, the heroics are quiet as well. But The Saturday Night Ghost Club is not that kind of book: the hauntings are far more subtle and the horror is, almost entirely, suffered by one man, Jake’s beloved Uncle Cal. That the summer in question occurred in 1986, when Jake Baker was 12, will immediately bring to mind comparisons to Stranger Things. It is far more a memory of childhood, a winsome look back by a narrator who now works in a difficult profession (as a surgeon) and is remembering the most significant summer of his life.

The Saturday Night Ghost Club is only the slightest wisp of a ghost story.

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