Frankenstein and My Ghost Story

Mary Shelley had an interesting beginning to her story Frankenstein. The story begins with four different letters written by Robert Walton, an explorer in the Arctic Circle. Walton is writing these letters to his sister who lives in England. During Walton's trip, he comes across a stranger that is near death. After the stranger is welcomed aboard the ship, he tells Walton that there is a story to how he came to be this way. After a bit of persuasion, Walton got the stranger to tell his story. The book, after is point, is a manuscript of the stranger's story.

If I had to write a ghost story, I would begin by talking about the setting's past. I would want to draw the readers into the history of the setting (location), what happened, and why the new people (which would become the main characters) are going to this location. I would probably make the location have a terrible past of murder and crime, and would say that the location is supposedly haunted. The new characters, who do not believe that it is haunted, would go to this location to prove it. Unfortunately for them, only one will come out alive...

Robert Walton (as interpreted from the story)

The eerie setting of my story...