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Grammar : Noun

Définition of ghost story

As in fairy tale : noun children's imaginative story with magical characters

Example sentences :

It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.
Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens

(a) The Ghost Story usually has a definite plot, in which the ghost is an actor.
Extract from : « Short Story Writing » by Charles Raymond Barrett

It was as good as a ghost story, every one was so spellbound and mystified.
Extract from : « The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's » by Talbot Baines Reed

One could never gain her attention with anything but a ghost story.
Extract from : « The Hour and the Man » by Harriet Martineau

I knew that, like the man in the ghost story, my only safety lay here.
Extract from : « Black Spirits and White » by Ralph Adams Cram

Mrs. Gaskell's ghost story I have got this morning; have not yet read.
Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens

I am charmed to learn that you have had a freeze out of my ghost story.
Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens

Just as Angeline was in the midst of a ghost story, Johnny rushed in again.
Extract from : « Dotty Dimple At Home » by Sophie May

The morning after the telling of the ghost story things began to happen.
Extract from : « Bar-20 Days » by Clarence E. Mulford

A lame "ghost story" at best, no matter how well delivered, but it won in my case.
Extract from : « My Life » by Josiah Flynt

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