77 Quotes About Ghost-stories

(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its epistemological status is so difficult to determine, challenged the writer to invent a commensurately sophisticated narrative technique.

One of the most popular legends was the tale of Lady Alexandra Greenwood, who was said to appear whenever something grave was about to happen. Her apparition was supposedly last witnessed weeping in the darkness of the cellar on the night before the death of Mrs Humphrey Devereux.

If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.

Seth: "I write of love in my novels, write of it well, if my critics and fans are to be believed, but in all of my years at that typewriter, I never found the combination of words that would convey how I felt about you. You were my everything.

Inside the once luxurious rooms for entertainment were the portraits of Greenwood family members long gone, the paintings now damp and chilly. They were arranged throughout the house like discarded memories, moments now trapped in time.

(Idea for a ghost story: a woman gets old and falls out of time and realizes that she’s become invisible.)

Your tills are talking to me and want me to take them home. Does this often happen?

Your fortune teller cursed me. Foul spirits haunt every supermarket I go to. I can't show my face in Morrisons.

Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood; but somehow they infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with ghosts hovering around her.