a story with frightening or supernatural elements
a tale about real people encountering and interacting with what they believe to be the last essence of dead people
A ghost story may be any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or the belief of some character(s) in them. In that sense The Tale of Genji contains ghost stories, and Shakespeare's Hamlet is a ghost story. Henry James used the ghost story premise.
Ghost Story is a feature film based on the book by Peter Straub. It stars Fred Astaire, John Houseman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melvyn Douglas, Alice Krige and Craig Wasson (in a dual role). The film was rated R for scary images, nudity, sexual content and violence.
Ghost Story is a famous horror novel by Peter Straub that was published in 1979 by Coward, McCann Geoghegan.
Ghost Story is an EP released by the epic metal band Brocas Helm. It was released in 1994, after several years of inactivity by the band. It is a very rare item, since it was released by the band itself in avery limited amount of copies.
After completing "Fiendish", Xavier was convinced he now had the machinery in place to satisfactorily record his songs from the aborted album "Ghost Story". He and Hutchins quickly reconvened to redo that album with Gabriel Moffat producing and mixing. "Ghost Story" was released in 2004 and saw Phideaux bring a harder rock edge to the music.