ghost story

noun

: a story about ghosts

: a tale based on imagination rather than fact

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Hollywood actors, costume designers, makeup people, stunt performers, writers and producers around the area are part of the creative ferment that makes Halloween, horror, cosplay, ghost stories, sci-fi and the supernatural so popular. —

Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 The line between the human world and the spirit one is very thin in Kaneto Shindo's atmospheric ghost story, which stands out thanks to its eerie blend of savage violence, domestic melodrama, and haunting romance. —

Katie Rife, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024 Arizona is full of ghost towns, ghost stories — ghosts, ghosts, ghosts. —

Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 21 Oct. 2024 The result is at once a ghost story, a tale of amour fou, a settling of accounts, and, one senses, a deeply personal act of expiation. —

Leslie Camhi, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ghost story