Ghost Stories and the Line Between the Living and the Dead

I was reading the New York Times Sunday magazine the other day and came across an interesting little item entitled "How to Tell A Ghost Story." If you've never written one, but would like to try your hand at it, the brief article is  definitely worth a read.

The tips contained in the article are attributed to Ruth Robbins, professor of Victorian Literature at Leeds Beckett University in England, and she makes several interesting points, among them that people tend to be possessed by their possessions.  That's a notion that authors of many genres of fiction might want to keep in mind.