English

Alternative forms

• ghost lore, ghost-lore

Noun

ghostlore ‎(uncountable)

1. The knowledge, or study of ghosts or spirits; the science of the supernatural; spiritism.
   • 1982, Louis Clark Jones, Three Eyes on the Past:

     Three other sections of the state are important in this connection: the Adirondack Mountains and parts of the Catskills, which while sparsely settled and only slightly represented in this collection, have much good ghostlore yet to be collected.

   • 1995, Charles Edwin Price, Haunted Tennessee:

     When one person tells another of a frightening experience, he is passing on ghostlore.

   • 2004, Ted Okuda, Jack Mulqueen, The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television:

     From ruthless gangsters to restless mail order kings, from the Fort Dearborn Massacre to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the phantom remains of the passionate people and volatile events of Chicago history have made the Second City second to none in the annals of American ghostlore.

Synonyms

• ghostology