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 Great Wherever
A Box Full of Darkness
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting (Retired Assassin's Guide #2)
Episode Thirteen
Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting
Little Ghosts
The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1)
The Haunting of Leigh Harker
The Spite House
Ghost 19
The Ravenous Dead (Gravekeeper, #2)
I'll Be Waiting
Asylum Hotel
Bodies of Work
Shutter (Rita Todacheene, #1)
The Whistling
The Haunting of Hill House
The Woman in Black
The Turn of the Screw
The Graveyard Book
A Christmas Carol
Her Fearful Symmetry
The Little Stranger
Collected Ghost Stories
Dark Matter
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Heart-Shaped Box
Wait Till Helen Comes
This House Is Haunted
The Sun Down Motel

Jonathan  Dunne
That hideous face turns to us, and it is now, in the ambient light, that I begin to see the true nature of this nightmare roosting in my home.
Jonathan Dunne, Drive: An Old Castle Novel

Jeanette Winterson
When I am climbing I understand that gravity exists to protect us from our lightness of being, in the same way that time is what shields us from eternity.
Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

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