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The novel is also a ghost story because hauntings are involved, both the usual kind and others that are the product of Han’s singular imagination.
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Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
By contrast, sorrow, mourning, and darkness are the attendant scores of the modern ghost story.
—Tithi Bhattacharya / Made By History, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
Researchers trawling through libraries and archives stumbled onto an early ghost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker, a 12-minute composition written by a teenage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and 800 pages of sheet music from George Gershwin’s first full-length musical.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
The ghost story is an impressible directorial debut by Kim Hee-won.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
By contrast, sorrow, mourning, and darkness are the attendant scores of the modern ghost story.
—Tithi Bhattacharya / Made By History, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
Researchers trawling through libraries and archives stumbled onto an early ghost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker, a 12-minute composition written by a teenage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and 800 pages of sheet music from George Gershwin’s first full-length musical.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
The ghost story is an impressible directorial debut by Kim Hee-won.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Ghost story.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghost%20story. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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