ghosts — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
vampires — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
appearances — the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in Aïda; her first appearance at a stockholders' meeting.
haunts — to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
shades — the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.