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To think that a classic ghost story, with classic ingredients, DOES NOT INCLUDE A TOWER!

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:11

Towers with secret doors are FOR FAIRYTALES.

Not ghost stories.

FGS.

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usualsuspect · 14/06/2013 23:13

You are very wrong.

All ghost stories have a tower with a secret door, THAT MUST NOT BE OPENED IN A THUNDERSTORM

SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 14/06/2013 23:14

Ghost stories involve broken down cars in the middle of no where and phones that either lose battery or signal.

FACT.

Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:14

Rubbish

It must have a neighing horse.

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tethersend · 14/06/2013 23:14

YABU

You obviously didn't go to school in the early eighties

squoosh · 14/06/2013 23:15

But where else do they keep the pesky mad women who break out and roam the house on a stormy night?

Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:15

I think you'll find you are talking bolleaux usual.

As usual.

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:15
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usualsuspect · 14/06/2013 23:15

Thank you.

If not a tower, than an attic, which is a bit like a tower.

Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:16

If you think I'm watching that tethers you ARE MAD.

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SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 14/06/2013 23:16

Also basements or attics can be involved. No towers. Only her with the long hair has a tower.

Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:16

Well, if you'd said attic... Hmm

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Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:17

How about a cellar?

With a dodgy lightbulb?

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LineRunner · 14/06/2013 23:18

I think, squoosh, you'll find you are making the elementary mistake of confusing a ghost story with mid 19th century quasi-gothic literature.

usualsuspect · 14/06/2013 23:18

The best ghost stories are in big fuck off houses with towers.

Phones? SP ,no phones in the olden day ghost stories.

squoosh · 14/06/2013 23:19

It was kind of ghosty though as she gave poor old Jane Eyre the proper shits.

SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 14/06/2013 23:20

I'm not from the olden days so I'm doing modern ones Grin

Whats her name with the long her and lives in a tower?

LineRunner · 14/06/2013 23:20

Edgar Allen Po.

usualsuspect · 14/06/2013 23:20

The best ghost film I ever saw had a ghost up the tower.

squoosh · 14/06/2013 23:20

I think that's the phrase Charlotte Bronte used 'the proper shits'

SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 14/06/2013 23:21

Usual Was it called 'The ghost in the tower' as well Grin

Salmotrutta · 14/06/2013 23:21
Hmm Grin
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usualsuspect · 14/06/2013 23:24

That's a great name for a ghost story.

The ghost up the Tower.

I might write it,

SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 14/06/2013 23:25

But what would it be about usual Its a bit of a vague title

Bimblepops · 14/06/2013 23:26

Carry on up the tower?

usualsuspect · 14/06/2013 23:26

You will all want to know me then, when I'm signing copies in Waterstones.

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