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The story involves a writer named Donald "Don" Wanderley who goes to the town of Milburn in upstate New York after the death of his uncle. He discovers that the death is related to the local Chowder Society and the ghost stories told in its inner circle. The novel was a watershed in Straub's career, becoming a national bestseller and cementing ...
Ghost is a young adult novel by Jason Reynolds, published August 30, 2016 by Atheneum Books. It is the first book of Reynold's Track series, followed by Patina (2017), Sunny (2018), and Lu (2018). Ghost was a New York Times best seller and National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist. [1] [2]
A ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them. [1] ...
Utagawa Kuniyoshi's portrait of Oiwa.. Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷怪談), the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, [a] is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge.Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story of all time, it has been adapted for film over 30 times and continues to be an influence on Japanese horror today.
Ghost Story was an American television horror anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from 1972 to 1973. Executive-produced by William Castle , Ghost Story featured supernatural entities such as ghosts, vampires, and witches.
In 1979, the story was adapted again as Casting the Runes, an episode of ITV Playhouse (Season 11, episode 9). In the 1979 version, the central protagonist is a woman, Prudence Dunning (played by Jan Francis ), the producer of an investigative television programme which is critical of an occultist named Karswell (played by Iain Cuthbertson ...
The Small Hand: A Ghost Story is a novel by English author Susan Hill, first published in 2010 by Profile Books. A television film adaptation, Susan Hill's Ghost Story , was broadcast by Channel 5 in December 2019.
Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book is a horror story by British writer M. R. James, written in 1892 or 1893 and first published in 1895 in the National Review. [1] It is his earliest known horror story and the first (along with "Lost Hearts") to be read aloud to the "Chitchat Society" at Cambridge, where many of his stories made their public debut. [1]