Soooooo… what happens at the end of Ghostbusters? I mean, yeah, they defeat Gozer, cross the streams, save the world, and everyone gets diabetes from the marshmallow covering the city. Sooo… then what? We know what happens to the characters from Ghostbusters 2 — the city sues them into bankruptcy and they all go their own separate ways. But that doesn’t tell us what happened to the ghosts. As far as I can tell, there is no link between Gozer and all the ghosts appearing in the city. Slimer’s not an agent sent by The Traveler. Zeddmore makes a mention to Ray that the proliferation of ghosts might signal the “end times”,…
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Ghost Stories
Interesting thought occurred to me today – nobody writes about ghosts anymore. I’ve been reading through magazines and webzines, looking for good places to submit to. There’s quite a bit of the horror genre out there, and judging from samples, there’s not a lot of ghost fiction. Vampires, scary clowns, demons, and nightly bumpers. No ghosts. At first I thought, well of course, ghosts aren’t scary. Ghosts can’t hurt you, ghosts don’t have claws or fangs. They can’t hurt you. When I think of ghosts, I think of Casper or Beetlejuice or Ghostbusters. So it’s obvious why ghosts aren’t used. Then I remembered my wife is terrified of ghosts. I…