ghost story
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“Presence” was a ghost story about teenage loneliness, filmed from the perspective of a spirit haunting the house a grieving family has just moved into.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026
A short ghost story about a boy with a clockwork heart buried under the Skull Tree is told via Burton claymation, in black-and-white, in the spirit of “Frankenweenie.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025
She is a ghost story to keep the kids safe and away from danger, but to Mal, she is very real.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2025
In a time of twisty, “prestige” supernatural horror, the good, old-fashioned ghost story has fallen by the wayside.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2025
But hearing Barb talk about Trevor and Amy, it doesn’t feel like a ghost story at all.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
