Usually means: Tales of supernatural, eerie encounters.
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  1. ghost story: Merriam-Webster
  2. ghost story: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ghost story: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ghost story: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ghost-story: Wordnik
  6. ghost story: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. ghost story: Wiktionary
  8. ghost story: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. ghost story: Dictionary.com
  10. Ghost Story (Phideaux Xavier album), Ghost Story (Straub novel), Ghost Story (TV series), Ghost Story (The Dresden Files), Ghost Story (album), Ghost Story (disambiguation), Ghost Story (film), Ghost Story, Ghost story: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. ghost story: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. ghost story: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun:  A story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.

Similar:
spookism, ghost, spirit, Geist, phantom, ghostism, horror, shade, phantomry, ghosthunting, more...

Opposite:
realistic story, mundane story

Types:
haunted house, poltergeist, apparition, possession, phantom, specter, ghostly encounter, cursed object, more...

Phrases:
A Ghost Story, A Chinese Ghost Story, A Ghost Story for Christmas, Erotic Ghost Story, My Ghost Story, more...

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Similar:
spookism, ghost, spirit, Geist, phantom, ghostism, horror, shade, phantomry, ghosthunting, more...

Opposite:
realistic story, mundane story

Types:
haunted house, poltergeist, apparition, possession, phantom, specter, ghostly encounter, cursed object, more...

Phrases:
A Ghost Story, A Chinese Ghost Story, A Ghost Story for Christmas, Erotic Ghost Story, My Ghost Story, A Chinese Ghost Story III, sounds in a ghost story, more...



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