ghost story

every ghost story is an onomatopoeia at the level of grammar, the vibrating pressure and release of narrative. the experience of it is how it reads. that's why it's a ghost story and not any other kind of story: the experiencer infers the ghost. that's .. what ghosts are. a thing that is self-evident is not a ghost. thus a ghost story is as it sounds, whether you tell it to yourself in realtime from sensory sources or you tell it to someone else later from memory sources.

see also: move along