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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Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting
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The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1)
Bodies of Work
Turn Off the Light
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The Twisted Dead (Gravekeeper, #3)
The Spite House
The Whistling
The Haunting of Hill House
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The Turn of the Screw
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A Christmas Carol
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The Little Stranger
Collected Ghost Stories
Dark Matter
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Heart-Shaped Box
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
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This House Is Haunted
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Abhijit Naskar
In short, there is no supernatural, only natural yet to be understood. If human mind perseveres long enough, every mystery soon reveals its truth.
Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

Frank  Lambert
You are thinking in human terms again, and forgetting Time is neither tick nor tock...
Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors

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