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
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Stephen  King
we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.
Stephen King, Danse Macabre

Jennifer Egan
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 ...more
Jennifer Egan, The Keep

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