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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Our Cut of Salt
Wildwood
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Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting
Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories
The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1)
Ghost Eaters
The Spite House
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting (Retired Assassin's Guide #2)
If We Never End
Glyph
Wildwood
Little Ghosts
The Twisted Dead (Gravekeeper, #3)
A Haunting in the Arctic
Turn Off the Light
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
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American Folklore
159 books — 22 voters
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Folk Horror
382 books — 173 voters

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Young Adult Horror: Ghosts
173 books — 197 voters

Time for Andrew by Mary Downing HahnStonewords by Pam ConradTime Windows by Kathryn ReissA Ghost in the House by Betty Ren WrightScary Stories 3 by Alvin Schwartz
Children's Ghost Stories of the 1990s
95 books — 24 voters
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Haunted Theaters
60 books — 27 voters


Byrd Nash
“ Sudden death can cause unrest. If the spirit died with a grudge, that could cause problems for the living. ”
― Byrd Nash, Ghost Talker

Jonathan  Dunne
“ One windy night, that blind thing came sniffing for you. ”
― Jonathan Dunne, Drive: An Old Castle Novel

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