Sentence examples for spook stories from inspiring English sources

In fact, I'd wager that horror and spook stories work better on radio than they do in the West End.

The return to experience is not the best-known economic concept, but it is alive in most of our contemporary economic spook stories, in which the callow private-equity analyst has the final power over an industry in which people have long labored, in which the mechanical robot replaces the assembly-line worker, in which the doctor finds his diagnosis corrected by artificial intelligence.

Then again, the reality rarely lives up to the spook story.

I had a fearful imagination as a child – I made up ghost stories and spooked other kids.

Apoplectic, Coleman resigns in protest.The "spooks" story is a depressingly credible tale of America's racial sensitivity run amok.

At restaurants and spontaneously arranged hotel parties around town, journalists spooked one another with biochemical ghost stories.

An anything-goes strategy could work for a looser, comic entertainment, but not a ghost story that aims to spook.

I admire a good ghost story, but I'm not spooked by supernatural beings; even yarns from masters such as MR James and HP Lovecraft left me unmoved.

Although it's technically a ghost story, ghosts aren't what will spook you.

Spooked by stories of big companies firing thousands even as they make record profits, many Germans no longer believe that what is good for the economy is good for them, says Roland Koch, premier of Hesse.

For a few years, I resisted joining FourSquare (4sq) because I was spooked by stories of people being stalked, houses being robbed, and oversharing, in general.