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ghost story

noun as in fairy tale

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For so much of the Harry Potter series, Voldemort was the ghost story, but Dolores Umbridge was the actual ghost.

After all, what is history, but a very detailed ghost story?

Along this sky-high route, nearly every 19th-century saloon or historic hotel has a ghost story to tell.

You Are One of Them By Elliott Holt A novel of the Cold War experience told through a ghost story.

You hope that the narrative will go off the rails, but Holt sticks to the boundaries of a ghost story.

It may be said that the truth of this ghost story rests mainly on a stick—leans upon a "heavy white cane."

The ghost story is as old as human speech,—and perhaps even antedates it.

The ghost story may thus quite conceivably be the first form of tale ever invented.

If I did not accomplish these things my ghost story would be unworthy of its name.

If I did not accomplish these things, my ghost story would be unworthy of its name.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ghost story, such as: fable, fairy story, legend, marchen, myth, and tale.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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