Summary: This story is about a writer who writes ghost stories. The writer is assisted by a ghost; named Helen. Helen is a member of “Writer’s Inspiration Bureau” which helps those writers who do not have an idea how to write stories. But the ghosts are annoyed at people who play with Ouija boards. They are threatening to go on strike so that people would stop using Ouija boards. Helen comes to the writer with this message. But the writer’s wife has recently bought an Ouija board in a bargain sale. She drags her husband to participate in the Ouija game. The game does not reach its conclusion because it is disturbed by Helen; the ghost. Writer’s wife is quite angry with him and threatens to leave him forever. The writer’s cook also threatens to resign from her job because she is afraid of Ouija board. The writer’s wife is also angry because she suspected some affair between her husband and one of her friends during Ouija game. She tells the cook to get rid of Ouija board. After that; all of them are happy and back to their normal life. The ghost also leaves them forever. Finally, the writer gets a strong inspiration to work on his next assignment.
Given below is a list of words related to ghosts and ghost stories with their jumbled up meanings against them. Match the words/expressions with their correct meanings:
Answer:
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Apparition | a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, a ghost, spectre or phantom |
| Clairvoyance | the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses |
| Crystal Ball | a globe of quartz crystal in which images, believed to portend the future, are supposedly visible to fortune tellers |
| Eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| Medium | a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living |
| Transmigration | to pass into another body after death: going from one state of existence or place to another |
| Psychic | capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy |
| Ouija Board | a spelling board device intended to communicate with and through the spirit world, obtaining answers to questions |
| Exorcist | a conjurer who expels evil spirits by conjuration |
| Premonition | a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event |
| Paranormal | beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation |
| Tarot Card | any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortune telling |
| Vampire | a reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people |
| Poltergeist | German word, meaning "noisy ghost"-a troublesome spirit that announces its presence with unexplainable sounds and the creation of disorder |
Question 1: The narrator earns his living by ………………………….
Question 2: The writer was overconfident about his ability to write ghost stories because ……
Question 3: The sight of the ghost materialising in his room filled the narrator with ………
Question 4: The ghost wanted John to …………………………………………..
Question 5: John wants the ghost to disappear before his wife enters the room and waves his arms at the ghost with something of the motion of a beginner when learning to swim. His movement shows his
Question 6: When the narrator says his wife is never so pretty as when she's doing something she knows he disapproves of, his tone is …………………….
Question 7: The ghost says "It's all your fault. 'It' here refers to ………………………
Question 8: Gladolia wishes to leave the narrator's house as ………………….
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