Ghost Stories

Ghost stories deal with subjects and situations focusing on hauntings, spirits, and interactions with the dead. These may be in the form of fiction or non-fiction.

Haunting is used as a plot device in horror fiction and paranormal-based fiction. Legends about haunted houses have long appeared in literature. For example, the Arabian Nights tale of "Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad" revolves around a house haunted by jinns. The influence of the Arabian Nights on modern horror fiction is certainly discernable in the work of H. P. Lovecraft. In his early years as a child, he would i
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New Releases Tagged "Ghost Stories"

The Great Wherever
Miss Gentle and the Case of the Very Flat Monk (Magic & Mystery, #1)
A Box Full of Darkness
Murder Road
Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting
Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories
The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1)
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting (Retired Assassin's Guide #2)
The Spite House
Ghost Eaters
The Ravenous Dead (Gravekeeper, #2)
Turn Off the Light
Ghost 19
The Whistling
Little Ghosts
Shutter (Rita Todacheene, #1)
The Twisted Dead (Gravekeeper, #3)
The Haunting of Hill House
The Woman in Black
The Turn of the Screw
The Graveyard Book
A Christmas Carol
Her Fearful Symmetry
The Little Stranger
Collected Ghost Stories
Dark Matter
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Heart-Shaped Box
Wait Till Helen Comes
This House Is Haunted
The Sun Down Motel
Jane-Emily by Patricia ClappAn Enemy at Green Knowe by Lucy M. BostonThe Ghosts by Antonia BarberThe Ghost of Dibble Hollow by May Nickerson WallaceThe Ghost of Windy Hill by Clyde Robert Bulla
Children's Ghost Stories of the 1960s
20 books — 16 voters
The Body in Brú na Bóinne by Gail Grant ParkWe Are Shadows by Gail Grant ParkA Haunting at Hawthorn by Gail Grant ParkMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsShadowland by Jenny Carroll
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77 books — 28 voters

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThe Haunting of Aveline Jones by Phil HickesThe Haunting of Brynn Wilder by Wendy     WebbThe Haunting of Cassie Palmer by Vivien Alcock
“The Haunting of...”
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Dark Matter by Michelle PaverThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan AikenThe Winter People by Jennifer  McMahonFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Dead of Winter by Chris Priestley
Frozen Gothic
34 books — 28 voters


Margaret Atwood
I mean, everyone who tells a ghost story starts by saying it’s true, but I want to know if it’s really true.
Margaret Atwood, Fourteen Days

Abhijit Naskar
In short, there is no supernatural, only natural yet to be understood. If human mind perseveres long enough, every mystery soon reveals its truth.
Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

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