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Transcript: Ghost Stories Discussed for Halloween
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- October 29, 1994
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SCOTT SIMON, Host: This Weekend, much of America will swarm with ghosts,
small ghosts most of them, peering out from holes a parent has poked
in the center of white sheets or perhaps small skeletons rattling
plastic bones as they skip from house to house, apartment to apartment,
calling out in childish voices a taunt from the hereafter, `Trick
or treat.' We grew up with ghost stories, feeble frights often mistold
at slumber parties, summer camps or by older brothers or sisters trying
to chill the blood of some bed-wetting younger sibling. We don't
think of ghost stories as particularly distinguished literature, but
poet and novelist Brad Leithauser, who teaches at ...