Accepting Quote by Bennett Cerf

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.

— James Watkins

Over the years, I've come to realize that sometimes a ghost isn't always a ghost. Sometimes, telling a ghost story is a way to…

— Jenna Wortham

I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror…

— Susan Hill

Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it…

— Guillermo del Toro

A mystery is solved with a story.

— Anonymous

But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity…

— Thomas Paine

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that…

— Tana French

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to…

— Lawrence Kushner

One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the…

— Carolyn Wheat

I hate the term "mystery". That's not what I write. I think the Scarpetta novels are much more character-driven than an average puzzle solver.…

— Patricia Cornwell

Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction,…

— Antonya Nelson