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Depictions of ghosts in writen fiction, the souls or spirits of dead persons or non-human animals that are believed to be able to appear to the living. See Category:Fictional ghosts for the characters in these media themselves. Also see Ghost story.
Ghost (Dark Horse Comics) Ghost (Hamlet) List of ghost films; Ghost of Christmas Past; Ghost of Christmas Present; Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come; Ghost Princess (character) Ghost Rider; Characters in Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective; Ghostly (The Amazing Digital Circus) Ghostly Trio; The Ghosts of Buxley Hall; Ghoultar; Gladiator Ghost; Zelda ...
The Ghost and the Goth; The Ghost Behind the Wall; The Ghost Belonged to Me; Ghost Knight; The Ghost of Thomas Kempe; Ghost Stations; Ghost Story (Straub novel) Gilda Joyce: The Dead Drop; The Glass Hotel; The Goblin Reservation; The Graveyard Book; The Greatcoat; The Green Man (Amis novel) Gump and Co.
There is widespread belief in ghosts in English-speaking cultures, where ghosts are manifestations of the spirits of the dead. The beliefs may date back to animism or ancestor worship before Christianization. The concept is a perennial theme in the literature and arts of English-speaking countries.
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. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The "ghost" may appear of its own accord or be summoned by magic .
M. R. James, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925) Elfriede Jelinek, Die Kinder der Toten (1995) Rikard Jorgovanić, Love upon the Catafalque (1876), Dada (1878) and A Wife and a Lover (1878)
Ghosts and monsters are closely related to this theme; they function as the spiritual equivalent of the abhuman and may be evocative of unseen realities, as in The Bostonians. Julia Kristeva's concepts of jouissance and abjection are employed by American Gothic authors such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman. [6]
On the “Acknowledgments” page of the novel, Gardner says that the town of Susquehanna, Pennsylvania is the “fictionalized setting of most of this novel’s action.” [2] The main protagonist is Peter Mickelsson, at onetime “a frequently written about football player,” [3] but now a Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University.