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Like any good ghost story, the danger isn’t in the past.
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Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
Like actual bedtime stories at a sleepover, or campfire ghost stories repeated with a flashlight under your chin, Bedtime Stories creates images that can lodge in your brain for a decade and hold up to revisits.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
But chief among his upcoming films is Martin Scorsese’s What Happens at Night, an adaptation of the 2020 ghost story novel from author Peter Cameron that began shooting last month.
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 16 Mar. 2026
Art by tenants past and present covers the hallway walls, and the staff will recant the building’s ghost stories without demur.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Mar. 2026
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Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
Like actual bedtime stories at a sleepover, or campfire ghost stories repeated with a flashlight under your chin, Bedtime Stories creates images that can lodge in your brain for a decade and hold up to revisits.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
But chief among his upcoming films is Martin Scorsese’s What Happens at Night, an adaptation of the 2020 ghost story novel from author Peter Cameron that began shooting last month.
—Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 16 Mar. 2026
Art by tenants past and present covers the hallway walls, and the staff will recant the building’s ghost stories without demur.
—Wilder Davies, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Mar. 2026
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“Ghost story.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghost%20story. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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