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Haunting Books
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Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.25 — 750,678 ratings — published 1938
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.94 — 942,965 ratings — published 2021
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.81 — 413,619 ratings — published 1959
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,748,862 ratings — published 1977
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,480,763 ratings — published 2002
The September House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.85 — 104,362 ratings — published 2023
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,253,984 ratings — published 1847
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.04 — 334,164 ratings — published 2020
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,947,512 ratings — published 2005
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.99 — 506,467 ratings — published 1987
The Haunting of Ashburn House (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,801 ratings — published 2016
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,969,186 ratings — published 1818
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.63 — 177,288 ratings — published 2023
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,456,942 ratings — published 2014
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.85 — 894,336 ratings — published 2005
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.59 — 308,795 ratings — published 2024
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.20 — 538,403 ratings — published 2020
The Sun Down Motel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.99 — 199,634 ratings — published 2020
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.05 — 625,097 ratings — published 1995
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.06 — 637,160 ratings — published 2014
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.68 — 65,576 ratings — published 1971
Incidents Around the House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.55 — 102,164 ratings — published 2024
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.65 — 432,114 ratings — published 2007
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.64 — 131,777 ratings — published 2014
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,960,306 ratings — published 1890
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,092,590 ratings — published 1992
The Broken Girls (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.05 — 133,824 ratings — published 2018
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.06 — 378,698 ratings — published 1892
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.91 — 108,020 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,285,612 ratings — published 1947
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,517,073 ratings — published 1985
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.66 — 457,729 ratings — published 2020
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.84 — 61,864 ratings — published 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,740,751 ratings — published 2018
The Haunting of Maddy Clare (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,459 ratings — published 2012
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,664,410 ratings — published 1948
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.38 — 185,480 ratings — published 1898
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,282,923 ratings — published 1963
Diavola (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.80 — 43,344 ratings — published 2024
Episode Thirteen (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.47 — 30,511 ratings — published 2023
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,041,329 ratings — published 2018
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.00 — 432,665 ratings — published 2019
The Carrow Haunt (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,395 ratings — published 2018
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.09 — 209,156 ratings — published 2000
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.01 — 663,794 ratings — published 2013
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,111,186 ratings — published 2011
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.91 — 310,993 ratings — published 1962
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,520,330 ratings — published 1897
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.92 — 214,107 ratings — published 1998
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.57 — 60,708 ratings — published 2009
“The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into the hall was open at our backs, and a panel of light from the lamps within was cast out to the terrace. Wandering moths, invisible in the darkness, suddenly became manifest as they fluttered into this illumination, and vanished again as they passed out of it. One moment they were there, living things with life and motion of their own, the next they quite disappeared. How inexplicable that would be, I thought, if one did not know from long familiarity, that light of the appropriate sort and strength is needed to make material objects visible.
Philip must have been following precisely the same train of thought, for his voice broke in, carrying it a little further.
'Look at that moth,' he said, 'and even while you look it has gone like a ghost, even as like a ghost it appeared. Light made it visible. And there are other sorts of light, interior psychical light which similarly makes visible the beings which people the darkness of our blindness.' ("Expiation")”
― The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
Philip must have been following precisely the same train of thought, for his voice broke in, carrying it a little further.
'Look at that moth,' he said, 'and even while you look it has gone like a ghost, even as like a ghost it appeared. Light made it visible. And there are other sorts of light, interior psychical light which similarly makes visible the beings which people the darkness of our blindness.' ("Expiation")”
― The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them."
"I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly.
"Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.”
― M is for Malice
"I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly.
"Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.”
― M is for Malice
