... with lots of wings and quarters where ghosts can hide. Quite often there is bad weather such as thunder and lightening, heavy rain, fog and snow. The bad weather can create a spooky atmosphere and also a sense of vulnerability and isolation. Sometimes the bad weather in ghost stories brings down telephone lines, so there can be no communicating with people, adding to the isolation. Ghost stories often start slowly in ordinary every day situations, and gradually build up to create tension, suspense and fear. There are often signs throughout the story that things are not quite as they should be and that there are strange things going on. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote "The Old Nurse's Story" using lots of the conventions we expect to find in a ghost story. The main setting of the story, Furnival Manor is a very stereotypical haunted house. The house is very isolated in the middle of ...

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