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"

Entities to Lovers
Our Cut of Salt
The Sisters of Crimson House
Wildwood
A Box Full of Darkness
Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting
Midnight Timetable: A Novel in Ghost Stories
Ghost in the Night
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting (Retired Assassin's Guide #2)
Ghost Eaters
The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1)
Wildwood
The Whistling
A Haunting on the Hill
The Spite House
Glyph
Little Ghosts
Shutter (Rita Todacheene, #1)
A Haunting in the Arctic
The Haunting of Hill House
The Woman in Black
The Turn of the Screw
The Graveyard Book
A Christmas Carol
The Little Stranger
Her Fearful Symmetry
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
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Frank  Lambert
“ Time is the narrator of life. Without Time speaking, nothing would exist. ”
― Frank Lambert, Ghost Doors

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“ Hold faith in fortune’s favor, but arm thyself should darkness descend. ”
― Chris Mentillo

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