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“There were heiress ghosts and cat ghosts and soldier ghosts charging through forests.”
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“My mother was a great one for tales of deaths foretold by shadowy apparitions and strange creakings of furniture on the anniversary of an untimely demise, but the real ghost aficionado in my family was my aunt Mary Ann (with whom I later co-authored The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society).”
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“When I was about eight, Mary Ann and her family moved into the only indubitably haunted house I’ve ever been in.”
“The narrative arc usually involves some form of ghost-riddance, whether by removal of protagonist or ghost.”
“Poor writers (sometimes).”
“Hence my sympathy for ghosts, for to me this unhappy state has a painful familiarity.”
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“Annie Barrows children's books Ghost Guild: The Lost Three ghosts Lit Hub Parenting Little Brown Books for Young Readers parenting Annie Barrows Annie Barrows has written scads of books for children, including the New York Times bestselling chapter book series Ivy + Bean (now a series of Netflix films), as well as the Iggy series, the YA novel Nothing and the bestselling novel The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society which was also made into a Netflix movie.”
“I have tried to stop believing in them, but I have failed.”
“In your garden-variety ghost story, the protagonist is generally the haunted, not the haunt, and the tales themselves are generally about how unhappy the protagonist is to find he or she is haunted.”
“It stood high and lonely at the top of a hill, up a long and frightening driveway.”
“There was only one neighbor (who later tried to found a kingdom and murdered one or two people) and the house itself was surrounded by dark trees.”
“I want to know why they returned and what they think they’re supposed to achieve.”
“I can’t believe in any ghost story that expends its energy on a scared mortal when there’s a conduit to the afterlife to be explored.”
“Endlessly, their audience runs away in horror.”
“I can’t believe in any protagonist who isn’t interested in these questions.”