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A ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them. The "ghost" may appear of its own accord or be summoned by magic. Linked to the ghost is the idea of a "haunting", where a supernatural entity is tied to a place, object or person. Ghost stories are commonly examples of ghostlore. Colloquially, the term "ghost story" can refer to any kind of scary story. In a narrower sense, the ghost story has been developed as a short story format, within genre fiction. It is a form of supernatural fiction and specifically of weird fiction, and is often a horror story. While ghost stories are often explicitly meant to scare, they have been written to serve all sorts of purposes, from comedy to morality tales. Ghosts often appear in the narrative as sentinels or prophets of things to come. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works in the genre ghost story 27
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The Visitors Book
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The Night Gardener
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Floating Staircase
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True Singapore Ghost Stories
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Storm
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The Scarecrows
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The Time of the Ghost
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The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms
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My Bones and My Flute
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Jenny Villiers
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The Turn of the Screw
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The Way It Came
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The Intoxicated Ghost
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"He's Not Come Yet"
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"Where Are Her Father's Bones?"
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"Bring Me a Light!"
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Spirit Painting
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A Railroad Journey
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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A View from a Hill
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The Innocents
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Pomegranate Seed
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The Mezzotint
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'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'
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The Sweeper of Dunluce
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The Glass Hotel
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The Year of the Ladybird
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