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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.
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.
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 ...
Emily, the ghost of a young girl who supposedly haunts a covered bridge in Stowe, Vermont. The bridge is dubbed "Emily's Bridge" and she is said to be seen only at midnight; Oscar Washburn, the ghost of a black goat farmer who allegedly haunts Old Alton Bridge in Copper Canyon, Texas. He is commonly known as "the Goatman" as he is said to ...
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)
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (1983) is a collection of ghost stories chosen by Roald Dahl. [1] Dahl read 749 supernatural tales from an array of writers at the British Museum before choosing 14 that he considered the best. [2] In the book Dahl writes; "Spookiness is, after all, the real purpose of the ghost story". [3]
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]
The ghost hunting theme has been featured in paranormal reality television series, such as A Haunting, Ghost Adventures, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Hunters International, Ghost Lab, and Most Haunted. It is also represented in children's television by such programs as The Ghost Hunter based on the book series of the same name and Ghost Trackers .