ghost story

English

Noun

ghost story (plural ghost stories)

1. A story about ghosts or the supernatural, often meant to be frightening.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 261:

     There are the books full of Underground ghost stories. An invisible runner pounds along the platforms at Elephant & Castle; children scream in the basement of what used to be the surface building of Hyde Park Corner, [...]

Translations

story about ghosts

• Catalan: història de fantasmes f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鬼故事 (guǐgùshì)

• Finnish: kummitusjuttu
• French: histoire de fantômes f
• German: Gespenstergeschichte (de) f
• Hungarian: kísértethistória (hu)
• Irish: scéal taibhsí m
• Italian: racconto dell'orrore m
• Korean: 괴담 (goedam)
• Norwegian: spøkelsesfortelling
• Portuguese: história de fantasmas f
• Spanish: historia de fantasmas f, cuento de fantasmas m
• Swedish: spökhistoria (sv)
• Welsh: stori fwgan f, stori ysbryd f