ghost story
Example Sentences
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“Presence” was a ghost story about teenage loneliness, filmed from the perspective of a spirit haunting the house a grieving family has just moved into.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026
A short ghost story about a boy with a clockwork heart buried under the Skull Tree is told via Burton claymation, in black-and-white, in the spirit of “Frankenweenie.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025
In a time of twisty, “prestige” supernatural horror, the good, old-fashioned ghost story has fallen by the wayside.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2025
If that ghost story can get them thinking about something like postpartum psychosis, then I’ve done my job.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024
Wind howled around the house the way it did on the radio for a ghost story, and Marly shivered in bed and covered herself clear to the eyes.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
