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Horror/Scary: April 01, 2015 Issue [#6906]

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 This week: The dearly departed
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Quote for the week: In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. ~ Dick Cavett


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Spirits of the dead are natural inhabitants of horror stories. They walk somewhere between this world and the netherworld, not really fitting in to either one. Instead of moving on to the afterlife, ghosts haunt the places where they lived or died.

Three common types of ghosts show up in fiction:

Benevolent ghosts: These are kind spirits, who try to be friends to the living. They may appear to family members or people they were close to in life. Friendly ghosts may try to warn or protect the living from danger, maybe to keep the living person from meeting the same fate as the ghost. While these ghosts are not evil, they may still fit into a horror story. Even a kind ghost might have a frightening appearance. Maybe the characters fear the ghost who is actually trying to protect them from something that is truly evil.

Neutral ghosts: These ghosts don't interact with the living, and don't even appear to notice them. They are spiritual echoes of the people they once were, and may not be aware of the living world around them. These ghosts may be caught in an endless loop of activity where they constantly repeat the action that led to their death.

Malevolent ghosts Some ghosts may have been truly evil people in life, and they remain in this world for the purpose of torturing the living. They may haunt someone who wronged them in life, or maybe anyone unlucky enough to encounter them. Poltergeists seem especially angry, throwing and breaking things. In some stories, a poltergeist is not a ghost of an actual person, but rather violent energy associated with a place. The Navajo chindi represents the evil parts of the deceased person, left behind because they cannot take it to the next world.

Part of the fear of ghosts may be fear of death itself, and maybe the fear that the ghost might be able to take us with them.

Something to try: Write a horror story in which the main character is a ghost.


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