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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.
G. Gay Ghost; Gentleman Ghost; Georgy (Adventure Time character) Ghost (Dark Horse Comics) Ghost (Hamlet) List of ghost films; Ghost of Christmas Past; Ghost of Christmas Present
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 .
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 ...
The ghost story is ubiquitous across all cultures from oral folktales to works of literature. While ghost stories are often explicitly meant to be scary, they have been written to serve all sorts of purposes, from comedy to morality tales. Ghosts often appear in the narrative as sentinels or prophets of things to come. Belief in ghosts is found ...
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)
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.
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 ]