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The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story. New York: Routledge, 2018. O'Brian, Helen Conrad, and Julie Anne Stevens, ed. The Ghost Story from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century: A Ghostly Genre. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. Briggs, Julia, Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story. London: Faber, 1977.
The first story, "Grandmother's Footsteps", used the phrase ghost story as word play because the plot twist of the grandmother being dead all along changed the phrase's meaning to "story from a ghost"; [3] "A Lesson From History" uses wordplay for ghostwriter because a ghost wrote Elisa's exam. Meanwhile, "Guilt Ghost" and "The Broken-Down ...
The next morning he complains, only to learn that there were no coolies in the dâk-bungalow the night before. The owner then tells him that ten years ago it was a billiard-hall. An engineer who had been fond of the billiard hall had died somewhere far from it and they suspected that it was his ghost that occasionally came to visit it.
"August Heat" is a 1910 short story by W. F. Harvey, about two men, unknown to each other, whose look at the other's possible future suggests that one of them will be murdered and the other will be the murderer. It is often referred to as a ghost story (it appears in The Folio Society's Book of Ghost Stories, for example, and in Edward Gorey's ghost story collection The Haunted Look
My Bones and My Flute: A Ghost Story in the Old-Fashioned Manner is a 1955 novel by Guyanese author Edgar Mittelholzer. [3] [4] [5] Plot. British Guiana, 1933.
Ghost Story is a horror novel by American writer Peter Straub.It was published on January 1, 1979, by Coward, McCann and Geoghegan.The story involves a writer named Donald "Don" Wanderley who goes to the town of Milburn in the upstate New York after the death of his uncle, finding out that the death is somehow related to the local Chowder Society and the "ghost stories" told in its inner circle.
"Lost Hearts" was adapted by Robin Chapman in 1973 as part of the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas strand, directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. The shortest of the adaptations, Lost Hearts was first broadcast on Christmas Day 1973 at 11:35 pm. [4] It starred Simon Gipps-Kent as the orphan Stephen and Joseph O'Conor as the much older cousin.
In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed by some people to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely, from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes to realistic, lifelike forms.