ghost-stories

However, if there are specifics in it like say, the videotape was about this blogger with an AFro hair-do making up ghost-stories, then you may have a case.

Holy Plagiarised Madonnas! Sharon Bakar 2006

And small-town ghost-stories are a genre that I love anyway.

Fringe Benefits: August 2007 Comics 2007

When we consider how much of their life is passed in the woods, which become as familiar to them as the streets of our native town to us, it seems almost incredible that these savages have a superstitious fear of all forests, fearing them as much, even in the bright light of day, as a nervous child with memory filled with ghost-stories fears a dark room.

Green Mansions 2004

The boys went to bed at eight, and, of course, consequently lay awake in the dark for an hour or two, telling ghost-stories by turns.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

My spine still tingles at the ghost-stories in which each tried to better the other, and all succeeded.

A Tourist's View of Ireland 1956

I must inform my reader that the greater number of the sons of the sea, although fearless of the enemy and of the weather, however stormy, are superstitious and have implicit faith in ghost-stories, mermaids, witches and sea-monsters, as well as in the flying Dutch ship off the Cape of Good

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

Morier, in a letter written in 1876, compares them to 'children telling ghost-stories to one another who have got frightened at the sound of their own voices, and mistake the rattling of a mouse behind the wainscot for the tramping of legions on the march'.

Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

It is a narrative of the skeptical nineteenth century, that sets down all ghost-stories as nursery-tales.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

Ballads were sung and ghost-stories told, for the dead were thought to return on Hallowe'en.

The Book of Hallowe'en Ruth Edna Kelley

These are not ghost-stories as one might imagine, but tales for children, told with so much grace and feeling that they will also secure a large audience among children of a larger growth.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 6, 1891 Various