The Shady Plot

2. The story’s narrator earned his living as a __________ by day.
4. The wordplay John uses to deny his wife’s accusation—he says he is strictly “__________.”
6. Inspiration Bureau The organization that supplied inspiration to struggling authors.
8. When Helen materialized before John, she complained that ghosts were being “__________ to death.”
9. Name of the maid who resigned because she believed the house was haunted.
10. The central theme of the story blends humour with this genre.

1. The ghostly strike began because humans had become too __________ for comfort.
3. John Hallock’s ghostly visitor once worked as a __________ in a magazine office.
5. The ghost demanded that Hallock should make people stop using these.
7. Hallock’s publisher who constantly demanded ghost stories.