The ghost writers hide in their mansion
having found no use for corporeal rewards
Their motivation to create had died
while their spirits faded at last

But one day a child arrived in the house
stirred up old dust and broke through the cobwebs
And their spirits were revived - here was,
perhaps, an appreciative audience!

So they swirled around his head and booed and
carried on, and when he didn't run,
they settled down and whispered their tales
seeing if he would frighten

But TV had altered children's view
scary tales had little affect and so
those wonderfully frightening apparitions
disappeared into the woodwork once more

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