Know Your Ghost Story?

Here's a trivia game for readers of the classic Peter Straub novel.  The letters comprising the answers to the four numbered clues are drawn from the pool below (suggestion: jot down the letters on scrap paper and then cross them off as you go; each successful answer will improve your chances of coming up with the correct responses to the other clues).  Those letters contained in brackets ([ ]) can then be unscrambled to form the answer to the BONUS question.


The letter pool:

D   I   K   N   R   S   B   I   L   F

R   C   F   O   B   H   Y   D   C   O

G   I   T   V   W   T   I   R   L   D

O   E   D   W   I   N   E   O   U   E

A   N   R   T   L   H   N   I   T   O

B   A   O   E   R   Y   G   M


1.Name of the group that meets to share ghost stories:

The   __  __ [ __ ]  __  __  __  __       __  __  __  [ __ ]  __  __  __


2.(Fictional) town, and state, where the novel is set:

[ __ ]  __  __  __  __  [ __ ]  __  __ ,     __  __  __      __  __  __  __


3.Name of the carnivalesque bogeyman character Don Wanderley plans to write a novel about:

__  __.       __  [ __ ]  __  __  __  __  __  __  __  [ __ ]


4.Film running at the Rialto Theater throughout the novel:

[ __ ]  __  __  __  __       __  __       the       __  __  __  __  __  __

__  __  __  __


BONUS.  Supernatural creature from Native American legend referenced in the novel:

The   __  __  __  __  __  __  __


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