Ghost Stories

Ghost stories deal with subjects and situations focusing on hauntings, spirits, and interactions with the dead. These may be in the form of fiction or non-fiction.

Haunting is used as a plot device in horror fiction and paranormal-based fiction. Legends about haunted houses have long appeared in literature. For example, the Arabian Nights tale of "Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad" revolves around a house haunted by jinns. The influence of the Arabian Nights on modern horror fiction is certainly discernable in the work of H. P. Lovecraft. In his early years as a child, he would i
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New Releases Tagged "Ghost Stories"

The Spirit Collection of Thorne Hall
The September House
Episode Thirteen
Little Ghosts
The Spite House
Dead Last (Crossroads Queen, #3)
Gallows Hill
The Ghost Cat
Ghost Eaters
Haunt Sweet Home
The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1)
Shutter (Rita Todacheene #1)
Honeysuckle and Bone
Perron Manor (Haunted, #1)
The Haunting of Brynn Wilder
The Twisted Dead (Gravekeeper, #3)
The Haunting of Hill House
The Woman in Black
The Turn of the Screw
The Graveyard Book
Her Fearful Symmetry
A Christmas Carol
The Little Stranger
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Collected Ghost Stories
Dark Matter: A Ghost Story
Heart-Shaped Box
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
This House Is Haunted
Wait Till Helen Comes
The Canterville Ghost
Grim Fairy Tales by Adam NickeThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeCarnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope HodgsonNightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen        KingStranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
Spooky Short Story Collections
154 books — 39 voters
Jane-Emily by Patricia ClappAn Enemy at Green Knowe by Lucy M. BostonThe Ghosts by Antonia BarberThe Ghost of Dibble Hollow by May Nickerson WallaceThe Ghost of Windy Hill by Clyde Robert Bulla
Children's Ghost Stories of the 1960s
20 books — 16 voters

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThe Haunting of Aveline Jones by Phil HickesThe Haunting of Brynn Wilder by Wendy     WebbThe Haunting of Cassie Palmer by Vivien Alcock
“The Haunting of...”
229 books — 26 voters
Ghosts I Have Been by Richard PeckThe Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope LivelyThe Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard PeckThe Ghost Next Door by Wylly Folk St. JohnThe Ghost in the Swing by Janet Patton Smith
Children's Ghost Stories of the 1970s
48 books — 16 voters

The Shining by Stephen        KingThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensHeart-Shaped Box by Joe HillThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Ghost Stories
1,481 books — 1,874 voters
The Lottery by Shirley JacksonThe Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan PoeThe Monkey's Paw by W.W. JacobsThe Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Dark Fiction Short Stories
59 books — 28 voters


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One windy night, that blind thing came sniffing for you.
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There are no ghosts in this story, I say to Davis. Oh yeah? Then show me where the people are. I look up at him. What people? Davis waves the pages I've left on my tray so they flap in the air. These people, he says. I can see them, I can hear them, I know them, but they're not in this room. They're not on this block. They're not in this prison or this town or this country or even this same world as you and me. They're in some other place. […] They're ghosts, brother, he says. Not alive, not dea ...more
Jennifer Egan, The Keep

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