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1	''Garfield's Ghost Stories'' is a collection of illustrated short stories set in the ''Franchise/{{Garfield}}'' universe.
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3	The cat is best known for naps, lasagna and kicking Odie. But can he handle real ghosts?
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5	!! Tropes for these stories include
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7	* AllJustADream: The ghost trying to skin Garfield in "Terror in the Mirror" [[spoiler:is actually one of his nightmares. OrIsItADream when he wakes up and half of his fur is shaved]].
8	* BeenThereShapedHistory: Subverted. It turns out that Shamus Arbuckle wasn't a sea captain that defeated Blackbeard; he was a pirate cook for Edward Teach, and a terrible one at that. Garfield wisely decides to never tell Jon that tidbit.
9	* CasualDangerDialogue: With Blackbeard and Khufu, Garfield can't stop wisecracking. It helps that once he reasons with them, the ghost and mummy respectively back down.
10	* MaintainTheLie: Garfield and Odie smudge the inscription on Shamus's toy sword so that Jon never knows that his ancestor was a fraud.
11	* NobodyCallsMeChicken: In "The Well-Fed Phantom," Nermal dares Garfield to go into a haunted house. Much later, Garfield wonders why he let Nermal talk him into doing such a thing.
12	* OutOfGenreExperience: Each story is a homage to ghost stories, with "The Lady of the Mist" in particular being more melancholy than usual Garfield stories.
13	* PokeThePoodle: Subverted with the Well-Fed Phantom. He says he doesn't want to hurt Garfield but would rather get his midnight snack. [[spoiler:When he finds out that Garfield has eaten all the food in his fridge, however, he tries to eat the cat. Garfield sensibly tails it out of there]].
14	* ProperlyParanoid: Garfield finds it TooGoodToBeTrue that a random woman is interested in Jon and not scared off by him. [[spoiler:He was right; Emily was a ghost that craved company]].
15	* SpannerInTheWorks: If Garfield hadn't been insulting Blackbeard while wielding his sword, or so he thinks, the pirate wouldn't have appeared and revealed in turn that Shamus was a fraud.
16	* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Defied; Jon gives Emily the bed in "The Lady in the Mist" and goes to sleep with the pets on the floor.
17	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When they find out Shamus was a fraud, and his cutlass was actually a vintage toy, Garfield and Odie decide to hide the inscription on it that would reveal it as a toy. They don't want Jon's feelings to be hurt.
18	* WrongGenreSavvy: Zigzagged; Garfield acts like he's in a movie when encountering the mummy Khufu. It ''does'' keep him alive long enough to find the pharaoh's real mummified cat and to get Khufu off his back.
19	* YankTheDogsChain: Jon meets a lady named Emily who doesn't find him a horrifying, disco-loving geek, and they have a lovely night together. He even chivalrously gives her the bed in his cabin and goes to sleep with the pets. [[spoiler:It turns out Emily is a ghost who visits passerby in the park when she's lonely, and she only appears on misty night. Jon is understandably crushed]].

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