Book List: Ghost Story Fantasy (March 2023)

[SFFBC, Ancillary Mod]

These are the books that were nominated for the Ghost Story Fantasy theme. Please continue recommending books that fit the theme. Nomination rules no longer apply, all formats, authors, etc. welcome!

Elatsoe
Lincoln in the Bardo
The Path of Thorns
Beloved
The Good House
Under the Whispering Door
The Midnight Library
Rusalka
Dark Matter
The Library of the Dead
Experimental Film
Juniper Wiles
Half-Resurrection Blues
The Sentence
Cemetery Boys
When the Reckoning Comes

[DivaDiane]

Shadowland by Jenny Carroll (aka Meg Cabot) is a YA about a girl who sees ghosts whom she's supposed to help move on somehow. I really enjoyed the first one. The series is The Mediator and you can see them all here: https://www.goodreads.com/series/4166...

[Becky]

The Graveyard Book definitely fits this theme, and is even better if you let Neil read it to you.

[Meredith]

Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal. Historical fiction (WWI era), ghosts, spies, murder, mystery.

[Sarah]

I was asked in Discord at some point to add these books to this list, so here goes:

The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson
Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
The Diviners by Libba Bray
Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

I probably have more lurking around somewhere. I’ll see if I can dredge them up.

[Bonnie]

This has two ghosts:
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

(it says #2 but that's in the same vicinity of Mississippi, it is not a sequel)

Obvious, but not everyone has read yet including me:
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

[Bonnie]

Novellas:
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Wylding Hall - Elizabeth Hand