Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A story having supernatural or frightening elements, especially a story featuring ghosts or spirits of the dead.
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- n. A story about ghosts, meant to be frightening.
Examples
“I doubt if there's one of my old-world cracks I haven't told you," said the old lady, "unless it's a queer ghost story was told me years ago of that house in the hollow with the blocked-up windows.”
“Mrs. Havergill would have evolved a ghost story long ago if I had.”
“Two of the tramps had been in Cromley spike recently, and they told a ghost story connected with it.”
“Let me guess: they pulled that old trapped-alien ghost story on you. ”
“Mrs. Terhune was a versatile and entertaining woman, a most practical housekeeper; and she could tell the very best ghost story I ever heard, for it is of a ghost who for many years was the especial property of her father's family.”
“Isabel made her quite happy by telling her how, a thousand years or so ago – it is no use being particular to a century in a ghost story – the daughter of a neighbouring border-chieftain had been turned out of her father's castle by her brothers, on the death of the head of the house.”
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