20 Ghost Stories Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Michael Dirda

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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. Bipasha Basu

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I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one. Chris Bohjalian

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I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories. Emma Bell

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I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories. Jerry Heller

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Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories. John Boyne

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I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that. Lennie James

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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories. Otto Penzler

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As a child I loved ghost stories. Rebecca Hall

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Many people told me such convincing ghost stories that I felt that there really were ghosts, though I hadn't seen any. And though I still haven't seen a ghost, I feel that they are all around us; we are just not aware of them being there. Ruskin Bond

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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. Shigeru Miyamoto

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. Susan Hill

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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. Susan Hill

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I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences. Susan Hill

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I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories - completely terrified but absolutely loved them. Tom Goodman-Hill

I love ghost stories. I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories, completely terrified but absolutely loved them. Tom Goodman-Hill

I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting. William T. Vollmann

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