Invisibility, Intangibility, and Flight/Hovering: Standard ghost powers.He also stated 'I can get very wicked when I got the urge,' and breaks the fourth wall as he says 'Must we end every scene with a terrible pun?' He is somewhat sadistic, since he seemed to find torturing Danny fun, although he might have just been getting into the story. Although, it should be noted that he was more than willing to break the Christmas Truce, something even the evilest and most malicious ghosts wouldn't do, suggesting that he might be extremely impulsive.Īlso, he was shown to have a distinct sense of humor as he including many jokes and puns in his story. The Ghost Writer does not seem to be evil, just vengeful and selfish. In fact, the only reason he trapped Danny in his poem was to teach him a lesson (and to take his revenge for ruining a masterpiece that took him who knows how long to even put the finishing touches on). If one looks closely enough, one can see the Ghost Writer as one of the many ghosts that help Danny and Skulker turn the earth intangible at the end of ' Phantom Planet.' So now Danny was forced by the Ghost Writer to recite the rest of the story, in a depressing way, and learn the lesson after that.Īfter Danny did and the story ended the last scene shows him locked up in Walker’s jail, holding the complete book. Danny then destroyed his keyboard, only for him to mock Danny, explaining that this meant the story couldn't end as he now couldn't type the end, thanks to him. Walker had him taken away for breaking the truce. Not being able to continue meant that he lost his power, and the angered ghosts turned on him. Danny broke this by causing him to end one of his sentences with orange, which seeing as nothing rhymed with orange, he couldn't continue writing. In a last ditch effort, he turned them against each other.

When Danny told all of them about him breaking the truce, the angered ghosts broke into the Ghost Writer's house to get him. To protect himself, the Ghost Writer sent him to a meeting of all his enemies, but he incorrectly assumed that they would forget about the Christmas Truce to get him. He also kept appearing to mock Danny at how he would be trapped in this story until he learned his lesson.Īfter successfully ruining everyone’s holiday, Danny went to the Ghost Zone to stop him. He then set about doing a series of incidents wrecking Christmas and turning everyone against Danny. Upon trapping Danny in his new poem, he kept torturing him, as he left him the only one who knew what was happening. The Ghost Writer made his first appearance in the ' The Fright Before Christmas.' During his showing, he got angry at Danny for destroying his poem, so he put Danny into a poem where everyone speaks in rhyme to show him how unkind he's been every Christmas.

The Phantom Writer by Rusty Hodgdon