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Haunting is used as a plot device in horror fiction and paranormalbased fiction. Books in the ghost story genre have stories that have ghosts or ghostly circumstances. He was the leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the victorian era. On returning from a visit to a client, antiquarian book dealer adam snow.
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