summary of the shady plot ..........
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-Elsie Brown This humorous ghost story revolves around the three characters namely John Hallock, his wife Lavinia and the Ghost Helena. Lavinia suspects that her husband maintains a secret relationship with a girl and she says this with surety as she has seen him talking with her alone. She decides to break her relationship with him. Luckily she comes to know from the ghost itself that it is helping him write a ghost story. Now they reconcile with each other. Jenkins, a magazine publisher asks the writer to give some story on super natural things. The writer accepts. The writer has no specialization in the ghost story writing. As he sits for writing about ghostly things issues like house hold matters crop up in his mind. Then he hears a voice and starts his conversation with a she-ghost as it were. The ghost says that she has come on his request through Ouija board to help him write a story. The ghost asks him to avoid calling through Ouija board. His wife calls him then and the ghost disappears and warns him about their strike. His wife asks him why he is sitting in the dark. She brings an Ouija board to know about historical events to help him write a story. He does not like the idea and asks her to return the board aback and get something else in its replacement. His wife stares at him. He tries to write a story, but cannot do it. Then next Saturday he writes his story. When he comes back, his mind is churning and his house is brightly lighted. The room is filled with middle-aged women belonging to his wife’s book club. They are sitting with Ouija boards. He is scared that his wife may notice the ghost. When his wife asks him to join the Ouija board, he refuses. Somehow his wife comes to know from the Ouija board and the board operator namely Laura that John has betrayed his wife by having relationship with a girl called Helen. She decides to break the relationship, but luckily she comes to know from John that Helen is helping him to write a ghost story.
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The story begins with the situation that Mr. Hallock is told by Mr. Jenkins to write a ghost story dealing with superstition incidents and involvement of supernatural powers. The writer sits down to write the story but he couldn't. He used to write other stories so fastly although not being master in them. But this time, no plot was ready in his mind. He couldn't think of any idea.
Apart this, he was thinking of his wife's shopping and says "This writing business is delightful, isn't it ?" And suddenly he hears a voice "Yes, it is." It was the voice of a ghost who was now appearing slowly. She explained writer how she and other fellow mates help other writers to write story.
And she was the only one who created plots for Mr. Hallock to write story. Writer denied with the fact but later on Helen explained him everything and now she wanted writer to call all his friends and tell them to stop using Ouija Board.
Suddenly the wife of writer arrives and is surprised to see that writer was talking to himself aloud in a darkroom. Later on she says that she has brought an Ouija Board to help other writers to write story. The writer tries to make her understand but she doesn't listens to him and goes.
Next day when the writer returns from his office, he is informed by her cook that Lavinia has kept a party for her Book's club women. When writer goes there, he finds that every two women is sitting with each other having a Ouija Board in middle. Lavinia later on forces Mr. Hallock to be a partner of Ms. Hinkle.
Ms. Hinkle starts placing finger of writer on Ouija Board and the board spells "Traitor". Later on after enquiring the board tells it was someone named Helen.
Meanwhile Lavinia tells Mr. Hallock that she was leaving the house and makes him free to communicate with helen. At the same time, Helen appears. Writer accuses ghost for everything that happened but the cook enters and tells him that she was not interested to work in a house where people use Ouija Board.
And now, Lavinia changes her decision and also Mr. Hallock is happy for the fact that his wife was not leaving and he have got a new plot to write.