'ghost story' definitions:
Synonyms of 'ghost story'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adventure story,
- allegory,
- apologue,
- bedtime story,
- blague,
- cock-and-bull story,
- detective story,
- exaggeration,
- fable,
- fabliau,
- fairy tale,
- falsehood,
- falsity,
- fantasy,
- farfetched story,
- farrago,
- fib,
- fiction,
- fish story,
- flam,
- flimflam,
- folk story,
- folktale,
- gest,
- half-truth,
- horse opera,
- legal fiction,
- legend,
- lie,
- little white lie,
- love story,
- Marchen,
- mendacity,
- mystery,
- mystery story,
- myth,
- mythology,
- mythos,
- nursery tale,
- parable,
- pious fiction,
- prevarication,
- romance,
- science fiction,
- shocker,
- slight stretching,
- space fiction,
- space opera,
- story,
- suspense story,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- taradiddle,
- thriller,
- trumped-up story,
- untruth,
- Western,
- Western story,
- Westerner,
- white lie,
- whodunit,
- work of fiction,
- yarn