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The Thing About Ghost Stories

2018 novelette by Naomi Kritzer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ65065193 ↗
Source-derived summary

"The Thing About Ghost Stories" is a 2018 fantasy short story by Naomi Kritzer. It was first published in Uncanny Magazine.

Synopsis

Leah is a folklorist studying ghost stories, who gradually becomes aware that she may be living in one herself.

Reception

"The Thing About Ghost Stories" was a finalist for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.

At Tor.com, Katharine Duckett lauded Kritzer's portrayal of the parallels between ghost stories and living with a dementia patient, as well as of Leah's "instantly engaging voice".

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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 2018 novelette by Naomi Kritzer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 9, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q65065193. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Thing About Ghost Stories” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.