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.

Spoiled Milk
Midnight on the Celestial
The Fourth Wife
You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom
Turn Off the Light
If We Never End
The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts
Wayward Souls (Harker & Moriarty #2)
Grandpere's Ghost Swamp
Living Dead (PsyCop, #15)
Wicked Onyx (The Veritas Legacy, #1)
Weavingshaw (Weavingshaw, #1)
Books & Bewitchment (Arcadia Falls, #1)
Nightmare on Nightmare Street
Garters, Ghosts and Wedding Toasts (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries #15)
Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
Hidden Pictures
Forget You Saw Her (Ask for Andrea, #0.5)
Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)
The Dead Romantics
Middle of the Night
The Seven Rings (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #3)
The Hotel Nantucket
A Box Full of Darkness
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Incidents Around the House
The Reformatory
Inheritance (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #1)
Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)
The Mirror (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #2)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsAnna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakeAsylum by Madeleine RouxThe Diviners by Libba BrayBad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender
Young Adult Horror: Ghosts
175 books — 195 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

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Shining by Stephen  KingHell House by Richard MathesonThe Amityville Horror by Jay AnsonThe Woman in Black by Susan         Hill
Haunted Houses
615 books — 615 voters

The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldIf I Stay by Gayle FormanElsewhere by Gabrielle ZevinBefore I Fall by Lauren OliverA Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
YA Post-Death Novels
191 books — 387 voters
Ghost Tamer by Meredith R. LyonsA Haunting at Hawthorn by Gail Grant ParkThe Body in Brú na Bóinne by Gail Grant ParkWe Are Shadows by Gail Grant ParkInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Paranormal Picks
239 books — 168 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 Name of the Star (Shades of London, #1)
The Woman in Black
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Ninth Key (The Mediator, #2)

Neil Gaiman
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Laurie Halse Anderson
In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.
Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

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