Ghosts

In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost (sometimes known as a spectre (British English) or specter (American English), phantom, apparition or spook) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living.

Wicked Onyx (The Veritas Legacy, #1)
Weavingshaw (Weavingshaw, #1)
Books & Bewitchment (Arcadia Falls, #1)
Nightmare on Nightmare Street
Garters, Ghosts and Wedding Toasts (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries #15)
A Box Full of Darkness
This House Will Feed
The Witching Hours (The Crows, #1)
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Wayward Children, #11)
The Hitch
The Magic of Untamed Hearts (Wild Magic)
Sundown Girls
I, in the Shadows
Ballad of the Bone Road
X Marks the Haunt
Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
Hidden Pictures
Forget You Saw Her (Ask for Andrea, #0)
Remain
Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)
The Seven Rings (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #3)
The Dead Romantics
Middle of the Night
A Box Full of Darkness
The Hotel Nantucket
Inheritance (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #1)
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
The Mirror (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #2)
Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)
Soul Searching (Sweetwater Peak, #1)
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Shining by Stephen  KingHell House by Richard MathesonThe Amityville Horror by Jay AnsonThe Woman in Black by Susan         Hill
Haunted Houses
614 books — 613 voters
City of Bones by Cassandra ClareClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareObsidian by Jennifer L. ArmentroutCity of Glass by Cassandra ClareTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
YA Fantasy/Romance/Paranormal books
355 books — 312 voters

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzWait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing HahnThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanCoraline by Neil GaimanMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Spooky books for Kids
242 books — 200 voters
The Awakening by Kelley ArmstrongThe Summoning by Kelley ArmstrongShadowland by Jenny CarrollThe Reckoning by Kelley ArmstrongAnna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Young Adult Ghost Stories
232 books — 337 voters

Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
The Graveyard Book
The Haunting of Hill House
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1)
Shadowland (The Mediator, #1)
City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)
The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1)
Girl of Nightmares (Anna, #2)
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
A Christmas Carol
The Name of the Star (Shades of London, #1)
The Woman in Black
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Ninth Key (The Mediator, #2)

Kelley Armstrong
He was trying to tell me something." Derek snorted. "Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement. ...more
Kelley Armstrong, The Reckoning

Libba Bray
Every city is a ghost. New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel bean, each tower of brick carries within it the memories of what has gone before, an architectural haunting. Sometimes you can catch a glimpse of these former incarnations in the awkward angle of a street or filigreed gate, an old oak door peeking out from a new facade, the plaque commemorating the spot that was once a battleground, which became a saloon and is now a park.
Libba Bray, Lair of Dreams

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