It's time again for another Insecure Writer's Support Group post. Learn more about the IWSG on their website and Facebook page.
Our hosts this month are Nancy Gideon, Jennifer Lane, Jacqui Murray, and Natalie Aguirre.
Here's the question for this month: Ghost stories fit right in this month. What's your favorite classic ghostly tale? Tell us about it and why it sends shivers up your spine.
This is a tough question to answer. I read a lot of fantasy/paranormal cozy mysteries, but I don't find them particularly scary. I'm going to jump ahead in the season a bit and choose Dicken's A Christmas Carol with the ghosts of Marley, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. Even if ghosts aren't real but metaphors, it can still be scary to look at traumas from your past and realize how little future you have left.
Enjoy the fall season, and I'll see you again in November!
5 comments:
Good pick. I don't find horror stories in book form scary, so I went with movies instead.
A Christmas Carol is a good choice. I like reading fantasy and cozy mysteries too.
I love that story, especially the Muppet's version of it.
My idea of a scary ghost story is an entertaining tale without the gory shock value. Urban legends based on someone's personal experience or cultural beliefs works for me and are good food for thought.
"A Christmas Carol" is a really good ghost story. Charles Dickens had several other Christmas ghost stories that didn't get the recognition they should have. One was called I think "The Sexton's Christmas" which was said to be the story that Dickens based his "Christmas Carol" on.
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