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As a child I loved ghost stories.
Every love story is a ghost story.
I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.
I want to believe in ghosts. I love ghost stories.
I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
I do not believe in ghosts. I believe in ghost stories.
we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.
The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.
Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.
I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.
I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.
I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.
I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep.
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.
I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.
You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.
I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting.
I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.
Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.
I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any ghost stories or any kind of weird experiences.
How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?
I love ghost stories but kind of left them alone after my teens and came back to it after playing Heathcliff in 'Wuthering Heights' on the radio.
I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.
I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.
I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.
I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.
Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.
Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.
I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out... I don't take them terribly seriously. It's like a cake, with ingredients.
So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.
Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.
There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.
This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.
I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.
Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.
There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.