ghost story
Noun
Meaning
ghost story (plural ghost stories)
A story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.
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Examples
Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".
A. M. Burrage calls this version of the game "Smee" in his 1931 ghost story of the same name.
Bear has described his Dead Lines, which straddles the line between science fiction and fantasy, as a "high-tech ghost story ".
A chilling ghost story about two abandoned Irish siblings who travel to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house.
A contemporary ghost story of vengeance is also an incisive portrait of a cancer-stricken woman and her two daughters striving for independence.
And, Crider throws Dickens' ghost story at the sheriff who professes to be a disbeliever.