[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-detail-147192-en":3,"doc-seo-147192-105":29,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":89},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",{"doc_id":7,"user_id":8,"nickname":9,"user_avatar":10,"doc_module":4,"category_id":11,"category_name":12,"doc_title":13,"doc_description":14,"doc_content":15,"file_id":16,"file_url":17,"file_type":18,"file_size":19,"view_count":11,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":20,"is_downloadable":20,"audit_status":20,"page_count":11,"language":21,"language_code":22,"site_id":23,"html_lang":22,"table_of_contents":24,"faqs":25,"seo_title":26,"seo_description":14,"update_tm":27,"read_time":28},147192,962084928904,"Jake","https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d",2,"Literature","Ghost Stories - Fiction on the Spirits of the Dead and the Supernatural","Ghost Stories are a supernatural fiction sub-genre focused on spirits of the dead and other spectral entities intruding into the material world. They often connect to a place, object, or person, appearing on their own or being summoned by magic, and they are designed to evoke creeping dread while also serving as morality tales or social commentary. The text traces a cultural and literary lineage from ancient classics through Renaissance and modern Gothic, highlighting common elements such as hauntings, poltergeists, and themes of guilt and the inevitability of death.","Dare to know  \nGhost Stories  \nFiction that focuses on the spirits of the dead or other supernatural entities.  \nA sub-genre in which a spectral entity intrudes into the material world. They are frequently connected to a place, object, or person. These spirits may be summoned by magic or appear on their own volition. These stories have a basic purpose of inspiring a sense of creeping dread and frightening the reader, but they might be used for social commentary and morality tales. Ghosts often appear in narratives as guardians or as harbingers of things to come. Ghost hunters are also featured in many stories. Author Neil Gaiman observed in 2014: “Fear is a wonderful thing, in small doses …It’s good tobe a child again, for a little while, and to fear —not governments, not regulations, not infidelities or accountants or distant wars, but ghosts and such things that don’t exist, and even if they do, can do nothing to hurt us.”  \nGhosts have a long cultural and literary history, appearing in many classics of the ancient world including the Greek dramatist Aeschylus’s The Libation Bearers (458 BC) orthe Roman playwright Plautus’sMostellaria (ca. 200 BC). During the English Renaissance, the titular hero of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (ca. 1600) was visited by the ghost of his father. Ghost stories also fill the pages of the Arabian work One Thousand and One Nights (ca. 1710s). In the modern era, ghost stories were present in Gothic and Victorian novels, and in the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. Francis Marion Crawford’s The Upper Berth (1894), Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898), M. R. James’s Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), Edith Wharton’s Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910), Violet Hunt’s Tales of the Uneasy (1911), William Hope Hodgson’s “The Ghosts of the Glen Doon”(1911), Algernon Blackwood’s Incredible Adventures (1914), Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Madam Cowl’s Ghost (1923), and Walter de la Mare’s “Out of the Deep”(1923) are classic examples.  \nCommon Elements  \n\n| Apparitions |\n| --- |\n| Poltergeists |\n| Supernatural entities |\n| Hauntings |\n| Distant screams |\n\n\n| Connections to everyday life |\n| --- |\n| White burial shrouds |\n| Suggestions of an as-yet unknown reality |\n| Ghosts as teachers |\n\n\n| Social criticism |\n| --- |\n| Ghost with uncompleted tasks in the living world |\n\n\n| Guilt for past misdeeds |\n| --- |\n| The inevitability of death |\n\nBenefits of Reading  \n\n| Allows readers to safely experience the primal emotion of fear |\n| --- |\n| Teaches readers to channel and overcome their fears |\n\n\n| Permits readers to explore the darkness of their imaginations |\n| --- |\n| Provides readers with a way to demystify death |\n\nModern Literary Examples  \n\n| Anna Dressed in Blood (2011) by Kendare Blake |\n| --- |\n| The Devil You Know (2006) by Mike Carey |\n| Ghosts and Grisly Things (1998) by Ramsey Campbell |\n| The Girl with Ghost Eyes (2015) by M. H.\u003Cbr>Boroson |\n| Heart-Shaped Box (2007) by Joe Hill |\n| Hell House (1971) by Richard Matheson |\n| House of Shadows (2020) by Darcy Coates |\n| I Remember You (2014) by Yrsa Sigurdardottir |\n\n\n| Kill Creek (2017) by Scott Thomas |\n| --- |\n| The Little Stranger (2009) by Sarah Walters |\n| Mapping the Interior (2017) by Stephan Graham Jones |\n| The Silent Companions (2018) by Laura Purcell |\n| The Sorrows (2018) by Jonathan Janz |\n| Wait Till Helen Comes (1986) by Mary Downing Hahn |\n| The Woman in Black (1983) by Susan Hill |","cbCaiiUOWaIUOqYE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiUOWaIUOqYE","pdf",244170,1,"English","en",105,"# Common Elements\n## Apparitions\n## Connections to everyday life\n## Social criticism\n## Guilt for past misdeeds\n## The inevitability of death\n# Benefits of Reading\n# Modern Literary Examples","[{\"question\":\"What defines ghost stories as a sub-genre?\",\"answer\":\"They feature a spectral entity such as a spirit of the dead intruding into the material world, often linked to a place, object, or person, and portrayed as haunting or being summoned by magic.\"},{\"question\":\"What common elements appear in many ghost stories?\",\"answer\":\"Common elements include apparitions like poltergeists, hauntings, distant screams, and connections to everyday life such as burial shrouds and suggestions of an unknown reality.\"},{\"question\":\"How do ghost stories benefit readers?\",\"answer\":\"They allow readers to experience fear safely, learn to channel and overcome it, explore dark imagination, and demystify death.\"}]","Ghost Stories - Fiction on the Spirits of the Dead and the Supernatural | PDF",1787760226,3,{"code":4,"msg":30,"data":31},"ok",{"site_id":23,"language":22,"slug":32,"title":13,"keywords":33,"description":14,"schema_data":34,"social_meta":84,"head_meta":86,"extra_data":88,"updated_unix":27},"ghost-stories-fiction-on-the-spirits-of-the-dead-and-the-supernatural","",{"@graph":35,"@context":83},[36,51,66],{"@type":37,"itemListElement":38},"BreadcrumbList",[39,43,46,48],{"item":40,"name":41,"@type":42,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":44,"name":45,"@type":42,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",{"item":47,"name":12,"@type":42,"position":28},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",{"item":49,"name":13,"@type":42,"position":50},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/ghost-stories-fiction-on-the-spirits-of-the-dead-and-the-supernatural/147192/",4,{"url":49,"name":13,"@type":52,"author":53,"headline":13,"publisher":55,"fileFormat":58,"inLanguage":22,"description":14,"dateModified":59,"datePublished":60,"encodingFormat":58,"isAccessibleForFree":61,"interactionStatistic":62},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":54},"Person",{"url":40,"name":56,"@type":57},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-09-04","2026-08-26",true,{"@type":63,"interactionType":64,"userInteractionCount":11},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":65},"ViewAction",{"@type":67,"mainEntity":68},"FAQPage",[69,75,79],{"name":70,"@type":71,"acceptedAnswer":72},"What defines ghost stories as a sub-genre?","Question",{"text":73,"@type":74},"They feature a spectral entity such as a spirit of the dead intruding into the material world, often linked to a place, object, or person, and portrayed as haunting or being summoned by magic.","Answer",{"name":76,"@type":71,"acceptedAnswer":77},"What common elements appear in many ghost stories?",{"text":78,"@type":74},"Common elements include apparitions like poltergeists, hauntings, distant screams, and connections to everyday life such as burial shrouds and suggestions of an unknown reality.",{"name":80,"@type":71,"acceptedAnswer":81},"How do ghost stories benefit readers?",{"text":82,"@type":74},"They allow readers to experience fear safely, learn to channel and overcome it, explore dark imagination, and demystify death.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":49,"og:type":85,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":56,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":87,"canonical":49},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":23},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":90},[91,95,98,102,107,112,117,122,127,130,134],{"id":20,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":92,"show_sort_weight":93,"slug":94},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":96,"slug":97},80,"literature",{"id":50,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":99,"show_sort_weight":100,"slug":101},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":103,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":104,"show_sort_weight":105,"slug":106},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":108,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":109,"show_sort_weight":110,"slug":111},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":113,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":114,"show_sort_weight":115,"slug":116},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":118,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":119,"show_sort_weight":120,"slug":121},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":125,"slug":126},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":125,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":125,"slug":129},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":131,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":132,"show_sort_weight":131,"slug":133},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":135,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":136,"show_sort_weight":103,"slug":137},19,"General","general"]