Ghost Stories

Mary Shelly's opening to the novel Frankenstein is shown threw four letters, between Robert Walton and his sister Margaret telling of his expedition, to the North Pole, to discover the seat of magnetism. Robert Walton writes to his sister telling her the knowledge he hopes to obtain and his longing to have someone by his side. In one of his letters he tells his sister he has taken a new passenger on his voyage. This stranger is very sick looking as if he has been traveling alone in the cold for days. Robert tells his sister how drawn he is to the stranger how he fascinates him. In the last letter he ends by telling his sister how the stranger he has healed back to life is going to tell him his story. If I had to write a ghost story I would begin it by starting with journal entry's from the past. My story would be about a haunted mansion and a new young family moving in. I would begin my story with the young family's children stumbling upon an old journal that belonged to the daughter of first owners of the mansion. In the journal the children will learn the history of the mansion and all the wrong that has occurred there, also the reason why its haunted. By using a journal in the beginning to start off will foreshadow to events latter on in the story much like Mary Shelly did with her four letters.