Ghost Stories

• Settings: The setting contributes to the mood of the story. It's important for the setting to convey a bleak and foreboding tone.
• Source of haunting: A ghost normally makes it's presence known in an object closely associated with itself.
• Bland and naïve protagonist: Maintains the reader's attention on the ghost and the haunting.
• Lack of explanation: No reason for the ghost to exist through reason or science.
• Wrath or menacing ghosts: its the villain of the story and often comes with friendly apparitions.