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.

Vigil
A Box Full of Darkness
This House Will Feed
The Witching Hours (The Crows)
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Wayward Children, #11)
The Hitch
Sundown Girls
I, in the Shadows
Ballad of the Bone Road
X Marks the Haunt
Persephone's Curse
Seeing Other People
Cape Fever
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting
Secrets of the First School (Edinburgh Nights #5)
Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
Hidden Pictures
Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)
Remain
Forget You Saw Her (Ask for Andrea, #0)
Vigil
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)
Soul Searching (Sweetwater Peak, #1)
Incidents Around the House
Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)
Angelfall by Susan EeSwitched by Amanda HockingMy Blood Approves by Amanda HockingThe Darkest Frost, Vol. 1 by Tanya HolmesHell's Teeth by James Fahy
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The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldIf I Stay by Gayle FormanElsewhere by Gabrielle ZevinBefore I Fall by Lauren OliverA Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
YA Post-Death Novels
191 books — 387 voters
Awakening the Fire by Ally ShieldsThe Somnibus by Craig McGrayWicked Wind by Sharon KayFire Within by Ally ShieldsThe Mark of Cain by A.D. Seeley
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394 books — 268 voters
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Paranormal must reads.
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Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
The Graveyard Book
The Haunting of Hill House
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
Shadowland (The Mediator, #1)
First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #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)

Jonathan Stroud
When you go out hunting wicked spirits, it's the simple things that matter most. The silvered point of your rapier flashing in the dark; the iron filings scattered on the floor; the sealed canisters of best Greek Fire, ready as a last resort... But tea bags, brown and fresh and plenty of them, and made (for preference) by Pitkin Brothers of Bond Street, are perhaps the simplest and best of all. OK, they may not save your life like a sword-tip or an iron circle can, and they haven't the prote ...more
Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what. ...more
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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