Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35752811-20180611154521/@comment-9041013-20180612103406

How to make a good ghost story? Hmmm... ghosts.... yeah...

Some suggestions for a ghost plot turn;

- The business works well, they thrive and what not, and eventually get sick or die from old age with the dogs outliving them, only to die themselves as Lady Death claims all and to become wild guardian spirits of the cabin. You can guess where this would go.

- The business works well, and then it fails because great depression and all, Isaac's personal life crumbles apart, the dogs die from old age, become wild guardian spirits who end up haunting and perhaps killing Isaac when he visits the cabin in the future.

- A local spirit starts haunting the cabin.

- A sort of 13 Ghosts plot turn, Isaac's business gets cracked down, he is killed, haunts the place and you get the rest. A particularly gruesome (not necessarily detailed) could work, to play into how and what he is as a ghost. Ths along with the use of alcohol needed in the cabin to "activate" Isaac's ghastly presence.

- A sort of celtic spirit/monster/ghost being being tied to Isaac could also work, considering his origin (at least by his last name) is from the UK, leaning towards some distant Welsh ancestry.

Such things could work well in a ghost story.