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The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.81 — 417,466 ratings — published 1959
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.76 — 85,215 ratings — published 1983
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.38 — 186,379 ratings — published 1898
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.15 — 570,422 ratings — published 2008
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.09 — 958,923 ratings — published 1843
Her Fearful Symmetry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.27 — 96,707 ratings — published 2009
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.57 — 60,877 ratings — published 2009
Collected Ghost Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,044 ratings — published 1931
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,269 ratings — published 2010
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,756,277 ratings — published 1977
Heart-Shaped Box (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.84 — 158,810 ratings — published 2007
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,141 ratings — published 1934
Wait Till Helen Comes (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.11 — 26,575 ratings — published 1986
This House Is Haunted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.62 — 16,986 ratings — published 2013
The Sun Down Motel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.99 — 201,220 ratings — published 2020
The Canterville Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.88 — 73,045 ratings — published 1887
The Small Hand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.47 — 7,719 ratings — published 2010
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,894 ratings — published 1904
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.91 — 84,413 ratings — published 1979
The Haunting of Maddy Clare (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,740 ratings — published 2012
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.91 — 108,049 ratings — published 2011
The Broken Girls (ebook)
by (shelved 61 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.05 — 134,554 ratings — published 2018
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.77 — 157,511 ratings — published 1820
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.04 — 338,057 ratings — published 2020
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
by (shelved 55 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.25 — 77,973 ratings — published 2013
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,650 ratings — published 2017
20th Century Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,577 ratings — published 2005
The Winter People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.81 — 103,594 ratings — published 2014
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.99 — 509,611 ratings — published 1987
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.66 — 461,063 ratings — published 2020
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.68 — 66,053 ratings — published 1971
Deep and Dark and Dangerous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.19 — 23,813 ratings — published 2007
All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,733 ratings — published 2008
The Book of Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.77 — 134,448 ratings — published
The Invited (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.79 — 47,227 ratings — published 2019
The September House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,752 ratings — published 2023
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Scary Stories, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,934 ratings — published 1981
The Old Willis Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,388 ratings — published 2004
Doll Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.68 — 30,529 ratings — published 2013
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.63 — 6,429 ratings — published 1983
City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.87 — 78,494 ratings — published 2018
The Man in the Picture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.64 — 6,335 ratings — published 2007
The Ghost Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.81 — 38,492 ratings — published 2013
Anya's Ghost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.90 — 95,118 ratings — published 2011
The Mist in the Mirror (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.34 — 4,322 ratings — published 1992
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,484,009 ratings — published 2002
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.63 — 179,006 ratings — published 2023
The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,649 ratings — published 1992
The Seance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 3.56 — 7,842 ratings — published 2008
Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as ghost-stories)
avg rating 4.00 — 418,267 ratings — published 2019
“(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its epistemological status is so difficult to determine, challenged the writer to invent a commensurately sophisticated narrative technique.”
― The Haunted dusk: American supernatural fiction, 1820-1920
― The Haunted dusk: American supernatural fiction, 1820-1920
“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.”
― Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
― Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
