"ghostly" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means something that is related to or resembling a ghost, or something that is eerie or unsettling. Example 1: The abandoned house on the hill had a ghostly appearance, with its broken windows and overgrown garden. Example 2: As the fog rolled in, the forest took on a ghostly atmosphere, with shadows that seemed to move on their own. Example 3: The ghostly figure of the old man could be seen wandering the hallways of the hotel late at night, searching for his missing treasure. Example 4: The eerie silence of the cemetery was suddenly interrupted by a ghostly wail that sent chills down my spine.
Hira Lal Yadav sits in the ghostly shell of the factory where he once employed 100 weavers.
However, Black Shuck is not the only apparition to add to the ghostly reputation of Wicken Fen, one of Britain's oldest nature reserves.
And, being the only fool doing Rigi on foot, the magic belonged only to me – well, me and my ghostly guide, from 150 years ago.
The larger, more traditional high-ceilinged "white cube" space in the rear has accommodated a ghostly slide projector installation from English artist Claire Harvey's "life in black and white" miniature world, plus more conventional sculpture and painting exhibitions from established artists such as Folkert de Jong and Sven Kroner.
Ukip did especially well, says Ford, in "declining northern towns", places that Labour would once have called its own but where the party often resembles a hollowed-out, ghostly presence from the past.
The Whitworth will reopen on Valentine's Day with a show from Cornelia Parker, who has taken over one of the gallery's airy new exhibition halls to produce The War Room, a piece made from rolls of red paper used to make Remembrance poppies, offcuts from the production process with ghostly negatives of the flowers.
Some of their grand chapels were demolished; others now stand forlorn and ruined amid the tombs, ghostly hollow shells.
Black glass balconies loom above the stately white pediment, mocking the remaining fragment of what once stood on the site, left here like a ghostly death-mask.
The afternoon sun washes through them in a mist of ghostly white.
It's set in the Alps, one of Blackwood's favourite locations, and tells of a writer's fatal attraction to a ghostly ice-skater whom he encounters on a deserted rink at night.
Three massive temples, built by the Greeks, tower over the ironing-board flatness of the surrounding marshes that lead to the sea - marshes that once harboured the malaria that drove away the city's population and left it a romantic, ghostly ruin.
