G is for Ghosts
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G is for Ghosts.
At last! We’ve arrived! My favorite letter for Blogging from A to Z because, well, you know, I adore ghosts.
(Thank you, old subscribers, for sticking with me. I promise once we arrive at Z, I’ll give you a much-needed break. Pinkie swear.)
But…I love ghosts. I love thinking about ghosts. I love writing about ghosts. I love reading about ghosts. I love to watch ghost stories on the big screen. On the little screen. Whatevs.
Why is that, you ask?
Ghosts are troubled. Ghosts need help. (Okay, I’m a mom. Need I say more?)
Ghosts are vulnerable. I’m vulnerable.
Ghosts are mysterious. Ghosts beg the question: how did you become a ghost? I love mysteries.
Ghosts are like, dead, but they’re, like, alive in some way. Therefore, once I’m dead, maybe I won’t be really dead? Hope, like the proverbial ghost, springs eternal.
As you probably know, I mostly talk about ghosts in novels. After all, I review ghost novels. So, instead I’m going to recommend some movies I love that feature ghosts.
Ghost
I totally forgot this one until I read today’s post by Elena Square Eyes.
Ghost Town
This one is a comedy rated PG-13
Haunted
Haunted revolves around dark family secrets.
The Orphanage
Orphans and ghosts–what could be better?
A Stir of Echoes
Thank you, Tamara Narayan, for that recommendation.
The Woman in Black
I actually prefer the movie to the book.
And, of course, it goes without saying the best, best ghost movie that you have no doubt already seen unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island or careering around a space station: The Sixth Sense.
Do you love ghosts as much as I do? What are your favorite movies? I’m always looking for more.
6 thoughts on “G is for Ghosts”
Ghosts can be so many different things. Nice, naughty and some are downright mean. I prefer not to believe in them. It makes going to bed so much easier!
Bushman
2015 A to Z Challenge Ambassador
@jwb81074
Ha ha! I suppose that’s true. I don’t like mean ghosts; I only like the troubled, searching ones. Not sure I believe in them, either, but I do like to be deliciously scared.
Stir of Echoes starring Kevin Bacon is one of my (older) favorite movies about a ghost. It might have come out around the same time as Sixth Sense.
Oh, another classic movie I forgot! I’m adding that one, too. Thanks!
I love ghost stories. I’m watching a series called Supernatural – it has ghosts, demons, angels and two handsome guys as protagonists. Have you seen it?
The Woman in Black was great, the book more so than the movie. I’ve read somewhere they’re making a sequel.
I have not watched a series called Supernatural. Is it about two brothers, Sam and Dean, who try to solve the mystery of their mother’s death?
I actually liked the movie Woman in Black more than I liked the book. I’d be interested in a sequel as long as the author was involved in it. I don’t like sequels or series that appropriate an author’s work. I hated the TV series Little House on the Prairie because it was not the work of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The producers just made up stuff using her characters, capitalizing on her name. Aargh.