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Definition of ghost story in English: ghost storynoun A story about ghosts, intended to be frightening. Example sentencesExamples - What starts out a psychological thriller turns into little more than a ghost story, and the potential of the initial story is abandoned.
- In a ghost story, the narrative doesn't have to be a model of originality or coherence, but it needs to support the scares.
- It starts off as a ghost story, moves into a political thriller and finishes as an epic, spiritual battle between good and evil.
- It's a kind of ghost story, really, a ghost story that ends on a quavering note of love, reunion, and redemption.
- If you had read the title of this story, you would think that this story will be a scary ghost story or a story about a murderer with an axe but I am afraid it is not.
- In this case a modern Tokyo apartment building becomes the setting for a ghost story told in the time-honoured Japanese confessional style.
- It is a ghost story, a tragedy, a policier and a drawing room comedy: a captivating story performed with childlike unselfconsciousness.
- As the distant thunder rumbled and came closer, I thought of the next dime novel I had been planning to read, a ghost story.
- I enjoyed writing the ghost story and the competition gave me a real taste of what it would be like to be an author.
- It is the ghost story supreme - a ghost story with a vengeance.
- It's a haunting tale, like a ghost story whose narrator is speaking from beyond the grave, a victim of the same fate.
- The story is a gothic ghost story set amid the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
- There are elements of a ghost story, and there is a growing, yet understated tension, with subtle layers of meaning.
- I think one episode involved a ghost story in a park.
- He is the father of much genre writing - the detective story, the ghost story, science fiction, the psychological thriller.
- After dark, pass around a flashlight and let everyone tell a favorite ghost story.
- She tells him that he acts like he is frightened by a superstitious ghost story.
- It's a ghost story, about the almost-killed being viewed as if they were.
- There's nothing like a good ghost story to spice up the history of a house.
- As the name would suggest, it is a ghost story and there is nothing wrong with that.
Definition of ghost story in US English: ghost storynounˈɡoʊs(t) ˌstɔriˈɡōs(t) ˌstôrē A story involving ghosts or ghostly circumstances, intended to be suspenseful and scary. Example sentencesExamples - He is the father of much genre writing - the detective story, the ghost story, science fiction, the psychological thriller.
- It's a ghost story, about the almost-killed being viewed as if they were.
- In this case a modern Tokyo apartment building becomes the setting for a ghost story told in the time-honoured Japanese confessional style.
- She tells him that he acts like he is frightened by a superstitious ghost story.
- It starts off as a ghost story, moves into a political thriller and finishes as an epic, spiritual battle between good and evil.
- As the name would suggest, it is a ghost story and there is nothing wrong with that.
- I enjoyed writing the ghost story and the competition gave me a real taste of what it would be like to be an author.
- In a ghost story, the narrative doesn't have to be a model of originality or coherence, but it needs to support the scares.
- The story is a gothic ghost story set amid the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.
- It's a haunting tale, like a ghost story whose narrator is speaking from beyond the grave, a victim of the same fate.
- What starts out a psychological thriller turns into little more than a ghost story, and the potential of the initial story is abandoned.
- There are elements of a ghost story, and there is a growing, yet understated tension, with subtle layers of meaning.
- I think one episode involved a ghost story in a park.
- After dark, pass around a flashlight and let everyone tell a favorite ghost story.
- If you had read the title of this story, you would think that this story will be a scary ghost story or a story about a murderer with an axe but I am afraid it is not.
- It is a ghost story, a tragedy, a policier and a drawing room comedy: a captivating story performed with childlike unselfconsciousness.
- It is the ghost story supreme - a ghost story with a vengeance.
- There's nothing like a good ghost story to spice up the history of a house.
- It's a kind of ghost story, really, a ghost story that ends on a quavering note of love, reunion, and redemption.
- As the distant thunder rumbled and came closer, I thought of the next dime novel I had been planning to read, a ghost story.
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