Ghost story

See Ghost Story (film) for the 1981 motion picture starring Fred Astaire.

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Ghost Story (film) - Fred Astaire

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A ghost story may be any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or the belief of some character(s) in them. In that sense The Tale of Genji contains ghost stories, and Shakespeare's Hamlet is a ghost story. Henry James used the ghost story premise. Stories involving ghosts are found in traditional cultures worldwide

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Fiction - Drama - Ghost - Premise - The Tale of Genji - Shakespeare - Hamlet - Henry James

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In a narrower sense, the ghost story has been developed as a short story format, within genre fiction. As such, it may be a relatively restrained form of supernatural fiction, compared with the excess of the horror story. The ghost stories of Montague Rhodes James are a classic expression.

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Short story - Genre fiction - Supernatural fiction - Horror story - Montague Rhodes James

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Many ghost stories are really folklore, passed on verbally. They may be about everyday life. An example is a subway train that comes at night and when you enter it you're doomed to go with it forever...

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• See also:
• A Chinese Ghost Story
• Perceval Landon.