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Ghost Stories
Ghost stories deal with subjects and situations focusing on hauntings, spirits, and interactions with the dead. These may be in the form of fiction or non-fiction.
Haunting is used as a plot device in horror fiction and paranormal-based fiction. Legends about haunted houses have long appeared in literature. For example, the Arabian Nights tale of "Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad" revolves around a house haunted by jinns. The influence of the Arabian Nights on modern horror fiction is certainly discernable in the work of H. P. Lovecraft. In his early years as a child, he would i ...more
Haunting is used as a plot device in horror fiction and paranormal-based fiction. Legends about haunted houses have long appeared in literature. For example, the Arabian Nights tale of "Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad" revolves around a house haunted by jinns. The influence of the Arabian Nights on modern horror fiction is certainly discernable in the work of H. P. Lovecraft. In his early years as a child, he would i ...more
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“
There are no ghosts in this story, I say to Davis.
Oh yeah? Then show me where the people are.
I look up at him. What people?
Davis waves the pages I've left on my tray so they flap in the air. These people, he says. I can see them, I can hear them, I know them, but they're not in this room. They're not on this block.
They're not in this prison or this town or this country or even this same world as you and me. They're in some other place.
[…]
They're ghosts, brother, he says. Not alive, not dea
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― The Keep
― The Keep
“
You will find me
in the flicker of dying bulbs,
in the rustle of sleepless winds,
in the corridor's caged whispers,
in the door's slow-blooming creak,
in the wail of distant gales,
in night's ink-thick hollows,
in the silver hush of anklets,
in each bead trembling on an orphaned necklace-
for even after I am gone,
your fear will keep me breathing
everywhere light forgets to look.
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― The Midnight Revenants: Asian Ghost Stories—Revenge Thrillers & Paranormal Romance
― The Midnight Revenants: Asian Ghost Stories—Revenge Thrillers & Paranormal Romance
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