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Ghost Story was an American television horror anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from 1972 to 1973. Executive-produced by William Castle, Ghost Story featured supernatural entities such as ghosts, vampires, and witches. The show's format and tone drew comparisons to NBC's Night Gallery and ABC 's The Sixth Sense.
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.
Ghost Story. (1974 film) Ghost Story (also known as Madhouse Mansion and Asylum of Blood) is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Stephen Weeks and starring Marianne Faithfull, Leigh Lawson, Larry Dann and Anthony Bate. [1][2] Although set in England, the film was almost entirely shot on location in India, much of it at Bangalore Palace ...
Glen Grant (historian) Glen Grant (February 23, 1947 – June 19, 2003) was a Hawaiian historian, author and folklorist. [ 1] He was primarily known for his Obake Files, a collection of articles and stories regarding native and imported folktales and mythology in Hawaii. Grant was also the author of the Chicken Skin series of ghost story ...
Peter Francis Straub (/ straŹb /; March 2, 1943 – September 4, 2022) [1] was an American novelist and poet. He had success with several horror and supernatural fiction novels, among them Julia (1975), Ghost Story (1979) and The Talisman (1984), the latter co-written with Stephen King. He explored the mystery genre with the Blue Rose trilogy ...
The Stalls of Barchester is a short film which serves as the first of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas.Written, produced, and directed by the series' creator Lawrence Gordon Clark, [1] it is based on the ghost story "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" by M. R. James, first published in the collection More Ghost Stories (1911).
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 ...
The Pan Book of Horror Stories was a British paperback series of short horror story anthologies published by Pan Books Ltd. The series ran to thirty volumes, the first published in 1959. [1] The series was initially collected and edited by Herbert van Thal. On van Thal's death Clarence Paget edited the series, from volume twenty-six until its ...