Ghosts

In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost (sometimes known as a spectre (British English) or specter (American English), phantom, apparition or spook) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living.

The Girl with a Thousand Faces
She Waits Where Shadows Gather
Waiting on a Friend
The Last Lady B
The Temptation of Charlotte North
House of Margins
You're Dead to Me, Reed Walker
We Could Be Anyone
The Victors
Don't Let Them Leave
Japanese Gothic
Molka
Deathbringer (Deathbringer, #1)
Honor & Heresy
The Antiquarian's Object of Desire (Love's Academic, #3)
The Dinner Party: A Pick Your Poison Adventure
Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
Hidden Pictures
Forget You Saw Her (Ask for Andrea, #0.5)
Molka
Japanese Gothic
The Hotel Nantucket
Middle of the Night
The Dead Romantics
Incidents Around the House
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Forgotten Sisters
Vanishing Daughters
Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)
The Seven Rings (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #3)
City of Bones by Cassandra ClareClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareObsidian by Jennifer L. ArmentroutCity of Glass by Cassandra ClareTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
YA Fantasy/Romance/Paranormal books
351 books — 310 voters
The Awakening by Kelley ArmstrongThe Summoning by Kelley ArmstrongShadowland by Jenny CarrollThe Reckoning by Kelley ArmstrongAnna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Young Adult Ghost Stories
235 books — 339 voters

Among the Living by Jordan Castillo PriceThe Ghost on My Couch by L.A. GilbertCriss Cross by Jordan Castillo PriceCamp Hell by Jordan Castillo PriceBody and Soul by Jordan Castillo Price
Best Gay Ghosts
211 books — 233 voters
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzWait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing HahnThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanCoraline by Neil GaimanMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Spooky books for Kids
243 books — 201 voters

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuHell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph WhiteThe Luminous Dead by Caitlin  StarlingWilder Girls by Rory Power
Queer Horror
715 books — 445 voters
The Amityville Horror by Jay AnsonDark World by Zak BagansGrave's End by Elaine MercadoThe Demonologist by Gerald BrittleParanormal State by Ryan Buell
Best Nonfiction Ghost Books
275 books — 146 voters

Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
The Graveyard Book
The Haunting of Hill House
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
Shadowland (The Mediator, #1)
First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1)
City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)
The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1)
Girl of Nightmares (Anna, #2)
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
A Christmas Carol
The Woman in Black
The Name of the Star (Shades of London, #1)
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Ninth Key (The Mediator, #2)

Judith Lewis Herman
The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible e ...more
Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Frank  Lambert
Staring at the wraith’s left hand, Zam saw a stump where its index finger should have been and knew then that the severed finger moving around in his pocket belonged to the wraith.
Frank Lambert, Xyz

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