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Return of the Living
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Return of the Living is a mystery horror novel written by Jonathan Wojcik (best known for Mortasheen, Don't Get Spooked, and Awful Hospital) released on September 11, 2020, which takes place in a world where everyone's already dead.To further elaborate, absolutely all life on Planet Earth - every animal, plant, and microorganism - mysteriously died out a long time ago. In their places, an unimaginably vast number of ghosts have haunted the wasteland left behind ever since, spending their free time following a single obsession their entire afterlives - or in other words, their personal "definitions." One ghost, named Alma, haunts a dusty old library, but her main definition is an acute fascination with biology. However, learning all she can from biology books when there's not a single creature left to find from these books, she's left unsatisfied and jaded in a crude simulacrum of a small town governed by a mayor of dubious leadership and competency.However, everything changes the moment Alma witnesses a living, breathing organism for the first time in centuries. A question arises; how will she tell the other ghosts of this momentous discovery and convince them that the biosphere is about to bounce back?More importantly, what will she and her friends do when life begins to pose a threat to the dead?Not to be confused with The Return of the Living Dead. | |
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Undeathly Pallor | |
| Return of the Living / int_106adcb7 | comment |
Undeathly Pallor: Many ghosts have pale colors. | |
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Miracle-Gro Monster | |
| Return of the Living / int_1259c262 | comment |
Miracle-Gro Monster: Growing footprints are the first hint that the living are capable of this. | |
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Our Banshees Are Louder | |
| Return of the Living / int_148bc07d | comment |
Our Banshees Are Louder: Banshees are sometimes mentioned as one of the types of ghosts existing in the setting. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
| Return of the Living / int_1e7c47ab | comment |
Stealth Pun: The Mayor manifests as a large, hovering sphere with arms and a face, and when he talks for too long, he visibly deflates; the guy's an airhead. | |
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Voluntary Shapeshifting | |
| Return of the Living / int_1fb440a6 | comment |
Voluntary Shapeshifting: The professor is capable of transforming into all sorts of shapes and sizes, The Thing style. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_25b19f64 | type |
Cute Bookworm | |
| Return of the Living / int_25b19f64 | comment |
Cute Bookworm: Alma adores books, especially biology books. | |
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Gashadokuro | |
| Return of the Living / int_2704093f | comment |
Gashadokuro: Boris, who looks like a skeleton, can grow to enormous sizes. Also, Gashadokuro are mentioned as a type of ghost. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_285a8a07 | type |
Fog Feet | |
| Return of the Living / int_285a8a07 | comment |
Fog Feet: Alma and many other characters have these. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_29bd4008 | type |
The Afterafterlife | |
| Return of the Living / int_29bd4008 | comment |
The Afterafterlife: It's speculated about what happens after a ghost wisps, but they don't know any more about it than we in real life do about a potential afterlife. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
| Return of the Living / int_2dc0d2bf | comment |
Hidden Depths: At first, Boris comes across as the mayors brutish enforcer, but he also deeply cares for Edith and Gregory and is pretty intelligent. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_334e48a1 | type |
After the End | |
| Return of the Living / int_334e48a1 | comment |
After the End: All life on Earth is gone. But as the title implies, that might be changing soon. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_3bce9346 | type |
Ragnarök Proofing | |
| Return of the Living / int_3bce9346 | comment |
Ragnarök Proofing: Alma wonders late in the book why some electrical devices still work. It becomes an important plot point shortly after. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_3cc1336 | type |
Spooky Silent Library | |
| Return of the Living / int_3cc1336 | comment |
Spooky Silent Library: Alma's haunt, where she spends her days reading biology books. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
| Return of the Living / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: The titular Living. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_51dc66f6 | type |
Hardboiled Detective | |
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Hardboiled Detective: Boris is much less quirky than the other main characters as he investigates disappearances around the city, to the point where he intimidates ghost citizens into following city ordinances. Turns out in life he was actually a garbage person instead of working in law enforcement. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_532a8261 | type |
Bookworm | |
| Return of the Living / int_532a8261 | comment |
Bookworm: Alma haunts a library and is defined by reading books. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_566f3ddd | type |
Nature Spirit | |
| Return of the Living / int_566f3ddd | comment |
Nature Spirit: Juniper has shades of this. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_586c6d7e | type |
Evil Is Visceral | |
| Return of the Living / int_586c6d7e | comment |
Evil Is Visceral: The lair of the professor is overgrown with meaty vegetation that's actually a part of her body. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_5ac26edf | type |
Friendly Ghost | |
| Return of the Living / int_5ac26edf | comment |
Friendly Ghost: Most characters in the story | |
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Animalistic Abomination | |
| Return of the Living / int_5b057eae | comment |
Animalistic Abomination: The living beings that appear throughout the book. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_5c36f1df | type |
Future Primitive | |
| Return of the Living / int_5c36f1df | comment |
Future Primitive: Most of the technology is no longer understood because ghosts cannot operate it | |
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| Return of the Living / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| Return of the Living / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: Jonathan Wojcik, who is a biology enthusiast who loves all things Halloween and weird horror, writes a book about a ghost who is a biology enthusiast with a plot full of Body Horror and grotesque monsters. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_66479d0 | type |
Our Ghosts Are Different | |
| Return of the Living / int_66479d0 | comment |
Our Ghosts Are Different: Ghosts are the souls of the living, but lose all of their memories upon manifesting. As such, they need to hyperfocus on whatever occupation defines them or risk "whisping", which would lead them to lose their consciousness for good and essentially die again. They are extremely prone to loop the same behaviour over and over again. Their bodies are not tangible normally, but with great effort, they are able to touch physical things. Also, they cannot cross a line of salt and every grain of salt is like an impassible barrier that goes higher than any ghost has ever managed to float. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_697c3646 | type |
Ghastly Ghost | |
| Return of the Living / int_697c3646 | comment |
Ghastly Ghost: With everybody being a ghost, there are obviously some among them who are not well-meaning. | |
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Post-Apocalyptic Dog | |
| Return of the Living / int_6b898eb8 | comment |
Post-Apocalyptic Dog: Gregory might qualify, but it's not clear if he's a dog. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_6ca9144b | type |
Restart the World | |
| Return of the Living / int_6ca9144b | comment |
Restart the World: The professor plans on replacing all of the ghosts with creatures housing their memories from their human lives. It works out, but in many cases, the ghost takes over instead of the former human. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_7301ae04 | type |
Serial Killer | |
| Return of the Living / int_7301ae04 | comment |
Serial Killer: Despite everybody being dead, there have been some "serial whispers" around who cause other ghosts to become less defined until they whisp. They have probably been serial killers in their former lives. | |
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LEGO Genetics | |
| Return of the Living / int_73f38fe0 | comment |
LEGO Genetics: Pretty much the professor's thing. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_74e9a5b1 | type |
Scavenger World | |
| Return of the Living / int_74e9a5b1 | comment |
Scavenger World: To a lesser degree. It's extremely difficult for a ghost to interact with physical objects, but they can do it und will sometimes use the stuff of their human ancestors. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_78f72406 | type |
Endearingly Dorky | |
| Return of the Living / int_78f72406 | comment |
Endearingly Dorky: Alma and Juniper when it comes to their favorite subjects. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_7eda7f78 | type |
Transformation Horror | |
| Return of the Living / int_7eda7f78 | comment |
Transformation Horror: The battle between Juniper and the professor | |
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| Return of the Living / int_82464731 | type |
Humanity's Wake | |
| Return of the Living / int_82464731 | comment |
Humanity's Wake: Humans and every other life on earth is long gone by the beginning of the plot. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_851dda8f | type |
Humanoid Abomination | |
| Return of the Living / int_851dda8f | comment |
Humanoid Abomination: The professor when she manages to stay in a somewhat human form. | |
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Creepy Doll | |
| Return of the Living / int_8bff32a8 | comment |
Creepy Doll: Edith looks like the head of a giant doll, and has what looks like a rather disturbing Slasher Smile. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
| Return of the Living / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: The Mayor is one of the ghosts who get completely deleted when taken over by their living counterpart. Luckily, Gene, his former human self, is much more of a decent person. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_906365a2 | type |
Demonic Possession | |
| Return of the Living / int_906365a2 | comment |
Demonic Possession: Some of the ghosts manage to do this after being swallowed by the living | |
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| Return of the Living / int_909b93cb | type |
Fearless Undead | |
| Return of the Living / int_909b93cb | comment |
Fearless Undead: Aside from whisping, there's not much a ghost has to fear. Until living beings start appearing and devouring the ghosts. The professor counts on Alma's self preservation instinct to keep her captive until her research is advanced enough to merge with her. Alma, having nothing to lose, tries to merge with the professor much sooner than anticipated. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_91e894b4 | type |
Apocalypse How | |
| Return of the Living / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: The backstory includes a total extinction of all life, including bacteria, on a planetary scale. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_999b994b | type |
Dead to Begin With | |
| Return of the Living / int_999b994b | comment |
Dead to Begin With: Everybody died hundreds or thousands of years prior to the story, and all the characters are ghosts. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_9bee1a7f | type |
Eldritch Location | |
| Return of the Living / int_9bee1a7f | comment |
Eldritch Location: With the plot taking place in a literal Ghost Town After the End, the bar is pretty high, but the professor's laboratory qualifies. For the ghosts, the abandoned power plant also qualifies because, due to the concrete walls containing salt, it's one of the few places where they can't float through walls. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_a16102d2 | type |
Meat Moss | |
| Return of the Living / int_a16102d2 | comment |
Meat Moss: Juniper has created a city park out of vegetation that's actually made of her ghostly body parts. The professor's lair is overgrown by meaty vegetation that's part of her body. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_a5921a0a | type |
Haunted Heroine | |
| Return of the Living / int_a5921a0a | comment |
Haunted Heroine: The protagonist is a ghost herself. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_a8739d3e | type |
Urban Ruins | |
| Return of the Living / int_a8739d3e | comment |
Urban Ruins: The setting of the book is one of the many ruined cities on earth, inhabited only by ghosts. | |
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Return of the Living / int_a8739d3e | |
| Return of the Living / int_abe166cc | type |
Bond Creatures | |
| Return of the Living / int_abe166cc | comment |
Bond Creatures: Gregory has a pretty close bond to Edith. | |
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Cute Ghost Girl | |
| Return of the Living / int_ac1a6ce3 | comment |
Cute Ghost Girl: The protagonist, Alma, could qualify | |
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Apocalyptic Log | |
| Return of the Living / int_ad22fa80 | comment |
Apocalyptic Log: The Professor keeps records of her work that caused the apocalypse | |
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Disaster Democracy | |
| Return of the Living / int_ad63e89f | comment |
Disaster Democracy: The mayor and the city council | |
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Return of the Living / int_ad63e89f | |
| Return of the Living / int_af19229b | type |
Plant Person | |
| Return of the Living / int_af19229b | comment |
Plant Person: Juniper loves plants and has grown a ghostly city park where she recreates the plant species of the old world from heir own ghostly body. | |
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Return of the Living / int_af19229b | |
| Return of the Living / int_b02f996a | type |
Town with a Dark Secret | |
| Return of the Living / int_b02f996a | comment |
Town with a Dark Secret: Underneath the town, the Professor is experimenting to bring life back, which would exterminate all of the ghosts personalities. And the Mayor is working in secret with her. | |
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Tropey, Come Home | |
| Return of the Living / int_b3fba1b | comment |
Tropey, Come Home: Early on in the book, Gregory runs away and Alma has to find him. This is one of the first signs that something is not as it should be. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_b426973b | type |
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body | |
| Return of the Living / int_b426973b | comment |
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Played with. While the bodies created by the professor contain the memories of former humans, their souls or personalities are contained within their ghosts. But those ghosts have made their own memories and become completely separate people in the hundreds or thousands of years after their death. When they unite with their new bodies, one of the identities wins out, while the other is completely erased. So you could say that the mind may become a plaything of the body if it isn't defined well enough. | |
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Sizeshifter | |
| Return of the Living / int_bc28c269 | comment |
Sizeshifter: Boris, who's appointed by the Mayor as the town detective. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_bf927e82 | type |
Non-Human Sidekick | |
| Return of the Living / int_bf927e82 | comment |
Non-Human Sidekick: Gregory becomes this for Boris | |
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| Return of the Living / int_c3478f1d | type |
Badass Bookworm | |
| Return of the Living / int_c3478f1d | comment |
Badass Bookworm: Alma loves reading over everything else, but she's also one of the most competent ghosts in town. She's also able to read hundreds of pages of the professor's notes in seconds to find out about their plans. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_c3f6e68 | type |
Dem Bones | |
| Return of the Living / int_c3f6e68 | comment |
Dem Bones: Boris looks like a human skeleton which is able to shrink and grow. Gregory and some other ghosts also have some bones showing. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_c4454787 | type |
You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost | |
| Return of the Living / int_c4454787 | comment |
You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost: Said word for word by Alma (who is a ghost) to the professor. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_c5821f0e | type |
Ghostly Glide | |
| Return of the Living / int_c5821f0e | comment |
Ghostly Glide: Most characters move like this | |
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Return of the Living / int_c5821f0e | |
| Return of the Living / int_c5835f29 | type |
Ghostly Goals | |
| Return of the Living / int_c5835f29 | comment |
Ghostly Goals: Every ghost has something that defines them, and not doing it for some time causes them to become less defined and eventually lose consciousness altogether, like a second death. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_c92cf19a | type |
Undead Child | |
| Return of the Living / int_c92cf19a | comment |
Undead Child: There are many among the ghosts. | |
| Return of the Living / int_c92cf19a | featureApplicability |
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| Return of the Living / int_c98c5622 | type |
Non-Human Undead | |
| Return of the Living / int_c98c5622 | comment |
Non-Human Undead: It's not clear what exactly he is, but Gregory is definitely a ghost pet. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_ce54d44f | type |
Apocalyptic Logistics | |
| Return of the Living / int_ce54d44f | comment |
Apocalyptic Logistics: Everybody is dead, and ghosts don't need much, so this trope is justified | |
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| Return of the Living / int_cf92fea8 | type |
Cassandra Truth | |
| Return of the Living / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: Alma and Juniper investigate the missing ghosts and sightings of living beings, but the Mayor convinces everybody else that nothing of this is true. Later it's revealed that he knows everything about the happenings | |
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| Return of the Living / int_d07e8fde | type |
Ghost Amnesia | |
| Return of the Living / int_d07e8fde | comment |
Ghost Amnesia: Nobody remembers their life before death. When Alma is confronted with the memories of her living self, it feels like the memories of another person. | |
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Return of the Living / int_d07e8fde | |
| Return of the Living / int_d0a3f4f7 | type |
Pupating Peril | |
| Return of the Living / int_d0a3f4f7 | comment |
Pupating Peril: After swallowing Juniper, the giant caterpillar-like Living seems to die and there is no more trace of the ghost. But near the end of the book, it's revealed that Juniper took over the body of the creature and transformed into a butterfly-like creature. | |
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Return of the Living / int_d0a3f4f7 | |
| Return of the Living / int_da4300b9 | type |
Mayor Pain | |
| Return of the Living / int_da4300b9 | comment |
Mayor Pain: The Mayor is very annoying to Alma and even the rest of the city council don't like him that much. It later turns out that he works together with the big bad. | |
| Return of the Living / int_da4300b9 | featureApplicability |
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| Return of the Living / int_db32e308 | type |
Whodunnit to Me? | |
| Return of the Living / int_db32e308 | comment |
Whodunnit to Me?: Played with. Alma is a ghost and works on finding out who killed not only her, but all life on earth. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_e1b2070b | type |
Chameleon Camouflage | |
| Return of the Living / int_e1b2070b | comment |
Chameleon Camouflage: Angelo's new body is capable of changing its color and looks chameleon-like in general. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_e70c45f0 | type |
All Animals Are Dogs | |
| Return of the Living / int_e70c45f0 | comment |
All Animals Are Dogs: It's unclear what kind of animal Gregory is, but his behaviour has hints of dogs and cats. | |
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Return of the Living / int_e70c45f0 | |
| Return of the Living / int_eb4086e3 | type |
Big Creepy-Crawlies | |
| Return of the Living / int_eb4086e3 | comment |
Big Creepy-Crawlies: Juniper's living body is a giant butterfly-like creature made out of vertebrate flesh and plant parts. | |
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Return of the Living / int_eb4086e3 | |
| Return of the Living / int_f0fa5790 | type |
Silly Spook | |
| Return of the Living / int_f0fa5790 | comment |
Silly Spook: Many ghosts have some endearing or funny qualities. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_f15c2859 | type |
NO INDOOR VOICE | |
| Return of the Living / int_f15c2859 | comment |
No Indoor Voice: THE MAYOR SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS, BEFITTING HIS Large Ham NATURE. | |
| Return of the Living / int_f15c2859 | featureApplicability |
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| Return of the Living / int_f5e204e4 | type |
Ghostly Wail | |
| Return of the Living / int_f5e204e4 | comment |
Ghostly Wail: The sirens and banshees are known for this. | |
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| Return of the Living / int_f9439c84 | type |
Haunted House | |
| Return of the Living / int_f9439c84 | comment |
Haunted House: Most ghosts have a main "haunt", a place where they spend most of their time doing whatever defines their personality. | |
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