Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Ghost Stories"

A Box Full of Darkness
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting (Retired Assassin's Guide #2)
Episode Thirteen
Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting
Little Ghosts
The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1)
The Haunting of Leigh Harker
The Spite House
Ghost 19
The Ravenous Dead (Gravekeeper, #2)
I'll Be Waiting
Asylum Hotel
Bodies of Work
Shutter (Rita Todacheene, #1)
The Whistling
The Ghost Cat
The House on Prytania (Royal Street, #2)
The Hollow Dead (Gravekeeper, #4)
The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)
Ghost Eaters
Turn Off the Light
A Haunting on the Hill
Ghost Business (Boneyard Key, #2)
Aggie and the Ghost
The Twisted Dead (Gravekeeper, #3)
The Attic on Queen Street (Tradd Street, #7)
The Veil
The Hotel
It Was Her House First
Murder Will Out
The Vengeful Dead (Gravekeeper, #5)
The Girl in the Lake
There’s a Ghost in This House
I Remember You
Haunt Sweet Home
The Furies (Charlie Parker, #20)
Long Lost
The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery
Not Quite a Ghost
The House at Phantom Park
The Room in the Attic
The Spirit Engineer
The Cold House
The Ghost Illusion
All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story Graphic Novel
Night Side of the River
Come Out, Come Out, Whatever You Are
Small Angels
The Toll House
What Lives in the Woods
The Dream Weavers
The Shape of Darkness
The Haunted Library: Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Sundown Girls
Ghost Mother
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird
The Black Feathers
The Girl in White
The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
The Glowing Hours
The Witching Hour: Haunting Tales for Long Dark Nights
Jasmine Is Haunted
Come Shell or High Water (A Haunted Shell Shop Mystery, #1)
The Fever of the World (Merrily Watkins, #15)
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
Ghostlight
Ghost Girl
The Ghosts of Merry Hall
Vanishing Daughters
We Are Already Haunting Here!
The Spirit Collection of Thorne Hall
I’m Not Supposed to Be In the Dark
Cinderwich
BuzzFeed Unsolved Supernatural: 101 True Tales of Hauntings, Demons, and the Paranormal
The Folly
The House of Lost Wives
The International House of Dereliction: A Heartwarming Ghost Story about Friendship, Mending, and Forever Home for Kids (Ages 8-12)
The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology
Polar Horrors: Strange Tales from the World’s Ends (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Cornish Horrors: Tales From the Land's End (British Library Tales of the Weird)
The House in the Woods (The Ghost Hunter Chronicles #1)
Took: A Ghost Story Graphic Novel
Mine
Chasing Ghosts: A Tour of Our Fascination with Spirits and the Supernatural
Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Echoes of Home (Lost Soul, #1)
The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Lockett & Wilde: The Ghosts of the Manor
Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Tales Accursed: A Folk Horror Anthology
Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Why Didn't You Just Leave
A Christmas Ghost Story
Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen (British Library Tales of the Weird)
We Are All Ghosts in the Forest (We Are All Ghosts in the Forest, #1)
Finch House

Jeanette Winterson
When I am climbing I understand that gravity exists to protect us from our lightness of being, in the same way that time is what shields us from eternity.
Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

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

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