id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6917 Ghost story - Wikipedia .html text/html 6099 850 74 The 11th century Japanese work The Tale of Genji contains ghost stories, and includes characters being possessed by spirits.[16] His ghost stories, "Wandering Willie's Tale" (1824, first published as part of Redgauntlet) and The Tapestried Chamber (1828) eschewed the "Gothic" style of writing and helped set an example for later writers in the genre. Classic ghost stories were influenced by the gothic fiction tradition, and contain elements of folklore and psychology. Oscar Wilde's comic short story "The Canterville Ghost" (1887) has been adapted for film and television on several occasions. Kaidan (怪談), which literally means "supernatural tale"[36] or "weird tale",[37] is a form of Japanese ghost story.[36] Kaidan entered the vernacular when a game called Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai became popular in the Edo period. The Indian television series, Aahat, featured ghost and supernatural stories written by B. "Golden Age of the Ghost Story" in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6917.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6917.txt