Short Ghost & Horror Collections – Book 8

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Short Ghost amp Horror Collections – Book 8 Title Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections Overview Thousands of short ghost and horror stories are available through our Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections series from classic authors Charles Dickens Sir Arthur Conan Doyle H P Lovecraft Mary Shelley Edgar Allan Poe Washington Irving Bram Stoker Lewis Carroll Gertrude Atherton Mark Twain H G Wells Rudyard Kipling Oscar Wilde Joseph Conrad Harriet Beecher Stowe and many other classic authors A ghost story is any piece of fiction or drama that includes a ghost or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters belief in them The ghost may appear of its own accord or be summoned by magic Linked to the ghost is the idea of a haunting where a supernatural entity is tied to a place object or person Colloquially the term ghost story can refer to any kind of scary story In a narrower sense the ghost story has been developed as a short story format within genre fiction It is a form of supernatural fiction and specifically weird fiction and is often a horror story Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to frighten scare or disgust Literary historian J A Cuddon defined the horror story as a piece of fiction in prose of variable length which shocks or even frightens the reader or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing Horror intends to create an eerie and frightening atmosphere for the reader Horror is often divided into the psychological horror and supernatural horror sub-genres Often the central menace of a work of horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for larger fears of a society While ghost stories are often explicitly meant to scare they have been written to serve all sorts of purposes from comedy to morality tales while horror stories encompass societal fears Some of these stories are centuries old with varying versions across multiple cultures Published Various List Short Ghost amp Horror Collections Ghost 19 Author Various Genre Horror amp Supernatural Fiction Short Stories Episode Short Ghost amp Horror Collections – Book 8 Part 1 of 1 Length Part 6 18 12 Book 8 Length Book 6 18 12 Episodes 1 – 15 of 15 Narrator Collaborative Language English Rated Guidance Suggested Edition Unabridged Audiobook Keywords ghost short story ghoul fiction supernatural horror ghostly specter spirit poltergeist phantom apparition haunt haunted house banshee eerie macabre dead fright scary suspense witch terror mystery demonic vampire devil death satan dark magic witches monsters satanism Halloween Hashtags freeaudiobooks audiobook mustread readingbooks audiblebooks favoritebooks free booklist audible freeaudiobook ghost ShortStory ghoul fiction supernatural horror ghostly specter spirit poltergeist phantom apparition haunt HauntedHouse banshee eerie macabre dead fright scary suspense witch terror mystery demonic vampire devil death satan DarkMagic witches monsters satanism Halloween Credits All LibriVox Recordings are in the Public Domain Wikipedia c Attribution-ShareAlike 3 0 Unported License WOMBO Dream — Send in a voice message https anchor fm free-audiobooks message Support this podcast https anchor fm free-audiobooks supportClick here to visit this podcast episode

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