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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 ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Ghost Stories"

Shutter (Rita Todacheene, #1)
The Haunting of Room 904
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Country Gardening
Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting
Episode Thirteen
The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
A Christmas Ghost Story
Gallows Hill
The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
The Whistling
The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1)
Aggie and the Ghost
Ghost 19
Haunt Sweet Home
A Box Full of Darkness
The Last Resort
The Twisted Dead (Gravekeeper, #3)
The Ravenous Dead (Gravekeeper, #2)
The Ghost Cat
A Haunting on the Hill
Asylum Hotel
The Little Ghost Who Was a Quilt
The Hotel
The Hollow Dead (Gravekeeper, #4)
The Haunting of Brynn Wilder
Ghost Eaters
Vanishing Daughters
The Haunting of Leigh Harker
The Spite House
The Prey
Little Ghosts
The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)
Meet Me at the Crossroads
Food to Die For: Recipes and Stories from America's Most Legendary Haunted Places
There’s a Ghost in This House
The Attic on Queen Street (Tradd Street, #7)
The Ghost Illusion
The Shape of Darkness
The Room in the Attic
The Furies (Charlie Parker, #20)
Ghost Mother
Devil's Door (Haunted, #2)
Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Scritch Scratch
Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season (British Library Tales of the Weird)
The Toll House
Night Side of the River
Grave Birds
The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery
Perron Manor (Haunted, #1)
Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts
A Ghost Arrives
The House of a Hundred Whispers
The Dream Weavers
The Spirit Engineer
The Dead of Winter: Ten Classic Tales for Chilling Nights (Vintage Murders)
The House at Phantom Park
Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales For Christmas Nights (British Library Tales of the Weird)
The Regrets
Come Out, Come Out, Whatever You Are
The Folly
Jasmine Is Haunted
The Girl in White
We Are Already Haunting Here!
Long Lost: An Atmospheric Middle Grade Ghost Story for Kids (Ages 8-12) About Two Sisters and Restless Spirits
The Girl in the Lake
The Ghost of Gosswater
Echoes of Home (Lost Soul, #1)
The Puppet's Payback and Other Chilling Tales
Ghost Girl
Angel of the Overpass (Ghost Roads, #3)
The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Five
Took: A Ghost Story Graphic Novel
Mine
The Apparition Phase
Weird Woods: Tales From the Haunted Forests of Britain (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology
Small Angels
The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird
All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story Graphic Novel
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story
Ghostlight
The Whispering House
The Black Feathers
Why Didn't You Just Leave
The House in the Woods (The Ghost Hunter Chronicles #1)
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
Haint Blue (Tipsy Collins #2)
Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Hazardous Spirits
The Shrieking Skull & Other Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
BuzzFeed Unsolved Supernatural: 101 True Tales of Hauntings, Demons, and the Paranormal
Come Shell or High Water (A Haunted Shell Shop Mystery, #1)
Ravencave
I'm not supposed to be in the dark
The House of Lost Wives
The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Four
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
What Lives in the Woods
Cinderwich

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Quotes Tagged “Ghost Stories”

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
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“ Books live forever, but spoken word disappears. ”
― Mark H. Roe
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Groups Tagged "Ghost Stories"

Phantasmagoria Book Club A book club for those who appreciate literature that thrives in shadows. We meet every 1st and …more
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Books that are suitable for Halloween or indeed for anyone interested in ghostly ,spooky or magi…more
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Quoth the Raven "Nevermore" (Writer's Group) A group for writers of ghost stories and Gothic fiction. Come into our haunted group an…more
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