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n. (plural of ghost English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: ghost)

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Ghosts (play)

Ghosts (original title: Gengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois, in a production by a Danish company on tour. Like many of Ibsen's plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality. Because of its subject matter, which includes religion, venereal disease, incest and euthanasia, it immediately generated strong controversy and negative criticism. Since then the play has fared better, and is considered a “great play” that historically holds a position of “immense importance”.

Ghosts (board game)

Ghosts (, ) is a board game designed by Alex Randolph for two players, released in 1982 by Milton Bradley.

Ghosts (Siobhán Donaghy album)

Ghosts is the second studio album by singer Siobhán Donaghy. Released on June 25, 2007, the album peaked at #92 on the UK Albums Chart. This album received more media attention than her debut album, but was overall a commercial failure despite receiving excellent critical reviews. The album spawned two singles, " Don't Give It Up" and " So You Say", which were both moderately successful. This is Donaghy's only studio album with Parlophone, as she parted ways with the label in August 2008.

Ghosts (Sleeping at Last album)

Ghosts is the second studio album, and major label debut of the alternative rock band Sleeping at Last. It was released on October 7, 2003 on Interscope Records. The band found some success with their single "Say".

Ghosts (comics)

Ghosts is a horror comic book series published by DC Comics for 112 issues from September–October 1971 to May 1982. Its tagline was "True Tales of the Weird and Supernatural" (December 1978), changed to "New Tales of the Weird and Supernatural," as of #75 (April 1979), and dropped after #104 (September 1981).

Ghosts (Japan song)

"Ghosts" is a song by English band Japan. It was released in edited form in March 1982 as the third single from their 1981 album Tin Drum.

It reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart in April. Although it was their biggest hit, this was not enough to stop the band splitting a few months later.

Ghosts (2006 film)

Ghosts is a 2006 drama film directed by Nick Broomfield, based on the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster. The title is a reference to the Cantonese slang term Gweilo (鬼佬), meaning "ghost man", used for white people.

Ghosts (band)

Ghosts were an English indie pop band, formed in Cranleigh in 2006. The band comprised singer-songwriter/guitarist Simon Pettigrew, drummer Jonny Harris, bassist Robbie Smith and keyboard player Mark Treasure.

A legal tussle with their label Atlantic Records resulted in the band being unable to record for two years. Despite plans for members Pettigrew, Harris and Smith to reform in 2011, it was confirmed in 2012 that the band had split up.

Ghosts (Banville novel)

Ghosts is a novel by Irish writer John Banville. Published in 1993, it was his first novel since The Book of Evidence (1989), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The second in what Banville described as a " triptych", to make "an investigation of the way in which the imagination works." This novel features many of the same characters and relates to events of the previous novel.

Ghosts (Strawbs album)

Ghosts is a studio album by English band Strawbs.

Ghosts (Aira novel)

Ghosts by César Aira was first published under the title Los fantasmas in 1990. Chris Andrews’ English translation was published by New Directions in 2009. It was nominated for the 2010 Best Translated Book Award shortlist.

Ghosts (Techno Animal album)

Ghosts is the debut album of the Illbient band Techno Animal, released on Pathological Records in 1991.

Ghosts (Laura Marling song)

"Ghosts" is the debut single by Laura Marling. It was released on December 2, 2007 as the lead single from her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim. The song peaked to number 108 on the UK Singles Chart.

Ghosts (2005 film)

Gespenster is a 2005 German film directed by Christian Petzold. Petzold also cowrote the screenplay with Harun Farocki. The film was presented at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival, where it was officially entered into competition.

Ghosts (Monolake album)

Ghosts is the seventh album from German techno music producer, Monolake (also known as Robert Henke). It is the second part of what is claimed to be a trilogy of three albums, that began with Monolake's sixth album, Silence. Although the album follows a primarily techno aesthetic, it also incorporates elements of drum n' bass, dubstep, and ambient music.

Ghosts (Pac-Man)

The Ghosts, primarily Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde, are the monsters chasing the player in the Pac-Man franchise.

Ghosts (Rage album)

Ghosts is the 13th full-length album by the German heavy metal band Rage with the Lingua Mortis Orchestra. It was released in 1999.

Ghosts (Big Wreck album)

Ghosts is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Big Wreck. The album was announced on April 8, 2014, with the title track "Ghosts" being released as the album's lead single the same day. At a length of nearly 70 minutes, it is Big Wreck's longest album to date. The album was nominated for " Rock Album of the Year" at the 2015 Juno Awards.

Ghosts (The Marked Men album)

Ghosts is the fourth album by the Denton, Texas punk rock band The Marked Men, released January 27, 2009 by Dirtnap Records. Like their previous albums, the band recorded, produced, and mixed it themselves in a converted shed in their hometown of Denton.

The album received positive reviews from critics, with most noting that its speed and the brevity of most of the songs necessitated repeat listens in order to notice its more intricate qualities. Bryne Yancey of Punknews.org remarked that "there's so much going on underneath the surface of these songs that once all the intricacies hit your ears, it might cause you to wonder aloud if anyone else who's not in the band notices them. Sure, anyone can listen to the Marked Men, but to hear them is a completely different experience." Luke Jackson of Alternative Press noted "To be perfectly honest, Ghosts won't grab you at first. Sure, they're a band playing loud, fast, and exceptionally tight, but the pop-punk market has been so oversaturated that it takes a lot for a band like Marked Men to be anything but white noise. However, once you hit your fourth or fifth listen, the hooks will finally start to sink in."

Ghosts (Albert Ayler album)

Ghosts is the second album release by American free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler's quartet featuring Don Cherry, Gary Peacock and Sonny Murray recorded in Copenhagen in 1964 and first released on the Dutch Debut label then later released on the Freedom label as Vibrations.

Ghosts (Wendy Matthews album)

Ghosts is the fourth solo studio album by Australian singer Wendy Matthews released in Australia by rooArt on 25 August 1997. The album debuted and peaked at number 43 in Australia.

The album was nominated for ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 1998 but lost out to ‘’Looking for a Butter Boy’’ by Archie Roach.

Ghosts (1915 film)

Ghosts is a 1915 silent film drama based on the famous play Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen. It was directed by George Nichols and John Emerson. D. W. Griffith produced the film and Erich von Stroheim served in several capacities as technical advisor, wardrobe assistant and costume designer. George Siegmann was an assistant director. The film had an alternate or working title The Wreck.

The play Gengangere was first performed in America in 1894.

A copy is preserved in the Library of Congress collection. And copies are also held at George Eastman Museum and UCLA Film & Television Archive

Ghosts (Charlie Storwick song)

"Ghosts" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Charlie Storwick. It was released July 31, 2015 through Westsonic Music Inc.

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Ghosts (anthology)

Ghosts is an anthology of fantasy and science fiction short stories edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the tenth volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series. It was first published in paperback by Signet/New American Library in December 1988. The first British edition was issued in trade paperback by Robinson in October 1989.

The book collects fourteen novelettes and short stories by various fantasy and science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov.

Usage examples of "ghosts".

For they have found that the tribes to the north of the Arunta regularly give their dead a second burial, that a change in the state of the ghosts is believed to coincide with the second burial, and apparently also, though this is not so definitely stated, that the time for the second burial is determined by the disappearance of the flesh from the bones.

Mimika district, their burial and mourning customs, their preservation of the skulls of the dead, and their belief in ghosts, 318.

The recognition of ghosts or spirits as a cause of disease, apart from sorcery, also marks a step in intellectual, moral, and social progress.

It is not so clear, though I believe it is equally true, that the recognition of ghosts or spirits as a cause of disease, quite apart from witchcraft, marks a real step in intellectual, moral, and social progress.

Thus the recognition of ghosts or spirits as the sources of sickness and death has as its immediate effect the sparing of an immense number of lives of men and women, who on the theory of death by sorcery would have perished by violence to expiate their imaginary crime.

The Baganda usually attributed any illness of the king to ghosts, because no man would dare to practise magic on him.

Again, in the territory of the Warramunga tribe the ghosts of black-snake people are supposed to gather in the rocks round certain pools or in the gum-trees which border the generally dry bed of a water-course.

All the Narrinyeri, old and young, are dreadfully afraid of seeing ghosts, and none of them will venture into the scrub after dark, lest he should encounter the spirits which are supposed to roam there.

South-eastern Australia the Narrinyeri were not alone in holding the curious belief that the souls of the dead go up into the sky to live there for ever, but that their ghosts come down again from time to time, roam about their old haunts on earth, and communicate with the living.

Thus the tribes of the Wotjobaluk nation thought that the ghosts of their dead relations could visit them in sleep to protect them.

It explains why ghosts are supposed to appear rather by night than by day, since it is chiefly by night that men sleep and dream dreams.

The ghosts of the natives on the Maranoa river were also thirsty souls, so vessels full of water were sometimes suspended for their use over the grave.

With the general advance of society and the accompanying accumulation of property these sacrifices have at certain stages of evolution become heavier and heavier, as the demands of the ghosts became more and more exacting.

And we are told that it is the nearest relations and the most influential men whose ghosts are most dreaded.

We know from Homer that the ghosts of the dead were supposed to drink the blood that was offered to them and to be strengthened by the draught.