ghost story

English

Noun

ghost story (plural ghost stories)

  1. A story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.
    • 1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379:
      In all smuggling places ghost stories abound. Can it be that they were invented to keep law-abiding folk behind closed doors at night, when the deeds were being done?
    • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 261:
      There are the books full of Underground ghost stories. An invisible runner pounds along the platforms at Elephant & Castle; children scream in the basement of what used to be the surface building of Hyde Park Corner, [...]

Translations

story about ghosts
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