Litsy

The ghostwriter detective guide: tools and tricks of the trade | Susan Lurie, Felipe Galindo

So...Apple TV is doing a Ghostwriter remake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHYMozXc4A

Naturally this 30 second trailer caused me to fall into a blackhole of googling the old show. Did you know Samuel L Jackson was in the pilot? Or that ghostwriter has an origin story that wasn't actually in the series but the writers said later?

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LaraS Apparently Ghostwriter was a runaway slave who taught other slaves to read, was then caught & killed by bounty hunters with dogs (and therefore he has a fear of dogs), and his spirit went into the book they'd been reading together?!?!?! (whaaaaattttt).

that deserves to be a story all on its own!!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/everything-youve-ever-wanted-to-know-about... 5y

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TheSpineView

The Ghost Writer | John Harwood

#Spooktober @eggs
#GhostWriter

StayCurious Spooky cover 5y

Eggs Good choice 👏🏻👏🏻👻 5y

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JoScho

H. P. Lovecraft's Haunt of Horror | Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Richard Corben

The father of Cthulhu dabbled in ghostwriting for Harry Houdini. Lovecraft had long been a contributor to Weird Tales when the founder, Henneberger, contacted him about ghostwriting for the famous escape artist. The magazine was in financial difficulty and Henneberger felt that “true” stories from Houdini would help sales. For $100, he churned out “Imprisoned With the Pharaohs" in less than a week and earned himself a big fan in Mr. Houdini.

Eggs

JoScho #spooktober #ghostwriter 5y

LeahBergen Well, that‘s cool! 5y

JoScho @LeahBergen I know. I had no idea. 5y

Eggs Fascinating!👻👏🏻🤗 5y

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Flowers in the Attic | V C Andrews

#GhostWriter
#Spooktober

Interesting article 📚

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12689/your-favorite-authors-are-frauds-6-famous-g...

Image from google

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LibrarianRyan 1. Ann Martin DIDN“T write all the babysitter club books. I feel Cheeted. I knew about VC Andrews but almost no one believes me. When new books started coming out a few years ago I tried to tell people she was dead, and no one believed me. 5y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @LibrarianRyan AND the Sweet Valley High books!!!! I feel cheated also!!! 😳😫😵 5y

LibrarianRyan @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I knew Sweet valley high was a team, like Carloyn Keene, or Franklin Dixon. I wonder how many Baby sitters Ann martin actually wrote. I will not have to go look. 5y

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Lcsmcat Gertrude Chandler Warner (Boxcar Children) isn‘t even a person. There is a stable of authors who wrote/write those books. One of them was in my sister‘s writing group in Chicago. 5y

LibrarianRyan @Lcsmcat That is so cool. Wasn't the original book the true author, or was it always like Keene and Dixon. 5y

Lcsmcat @LibrarianRyan My understanding from my sister was that there never was a Gertrude- it was just a made up name. But I admit I never researched it. One of my kids once had a signed copy of one, but I don‘t know if it survived. 5y

jmtrivera @LibrarianRyan I looked it up when seeing Martin at National Book Fest in August. She wrote the first 30 (ish? Might be 35) BSCs, then it was taken by ghostwriters. I also looked up Gertrude Chandler Warner once, ages ago, and I think it was really her for the first 19 Boxcars or so. I always find these stories so interesting! 5y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Lcsmcat that‘s cool!! 5y

Eggs You‘re right on the BSC series @jmtrivera This is all so fascinating @LibrarianRyan @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Lcsmcat (edited) 5y

Avanders Very interesting! ☺️ 5y

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StayCurious

Caught in the Net | Nancy Butcher

Back when I was growing up there was this fun little show called #GhostWriter and there was a book series that came around afterwards. Ahh 90‘s nostalgia! @Eggs #spooktober

LibrarianRyan I loved this book and TV series. If only it was still on. Might be time to search You tube. 5y

Eggs So fun- reminds me of Nickelodeon Are you afraid of the dark 5y

rabbitprincess Yessss Ghostwriter! I definitely tried to summon Ghostwriter once by writing "RALLY J" like Jamal ? Except my first initial is not J, so perhaps that's why it didn't work ?? 5y

StayCurious @rabbitprincess @LibrarianRyan apparently they are rebooting the series on AppleTV 5y

rabbitprincess @StayCurious Whoa, cool! 5y

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