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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"

A Box Full of Darkness
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting (Retired Assassin's Guide #2)
Little Ghosts
Episode Thirteen
Bodies of Work
Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting
Ghost Eaters
The Whispering Dead (Gravekeeper, #1)
The Whistling
The Spite House
Turn Off the Light
Aggie and the Ghost
Shutter (Rita Todacheene, #1)
The Ravenous Dead (Gravekeeper, #2)
A Haunting on the Hill
The Haunting of Leigh Harker
Ghost Business (Boneyard Key, #2)
Ghost 19
Asylum Hotel
A Haunting in the Arctic
The Vengeful Dead (Gravekeeper, #5)
It Was Her House First
The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)
The Hotel
The Ghost Cat
The Hollow Dead (Gravekeeper, #4)
The Girl in the Lake
The Shape of Darkness
The Veil
Haunt Sweet Home
The Attic on Queen Street (Tradd Street, #7)
The House on Prytania (Royal Street, #2)
The Twisted Dead (Gravekeeper, #3)
Long Lost
The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
Come Out, Come Out, Whatever You Are
The Cold House
The Room in the Attic
The Toll House
The House at Phantom Park
Sundown Girls
There’s a Ghost in This House
The House in the Woods (The Ghost Hunter Chronicles #1)
We Are Already Haunting Here!
The Ghost Illusion
We Are All Ghosts in the Forest
The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery
Ravencave
Finch House
The Spirit Collection of Thorne Hall
Food to Die For: Recipes and Stories from America's Most Legendary Haunted Places
The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
Ghost Mother
Come Shell or High Water (A Haunted Shell Shop Mystery, #1)
All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story Graphic Novel
Lockett & Wilde: The Ghosts of the Manor
Mine
The Folly
The Black Feathers
The Dream Weavers
The Ghosts of Beatrice Bird
Night Side of the River
Hazardous Spirits
Small Angels
Violet Ghosts
What Lives in the Woods
Where the Dead Brides Gather
Echoes of Home (Lost Soul, #1)
Ghostlight
The Witching Hour: Haunting Tales for Long Dark Nights
Wise Creatures
The Furies (Charlie Parker, #20)
The International House of Dereliction
Six Rooms
The Girl in White
Ghost Girl
Damnable Tales: A Folk Horror Anthology
Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny (British Library Tales of the Weird)
The Ghost Sequences
Angel of the Overpass (Ghost Roads, #3)
The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story
The Dead of Winter: Ten Classic Tales for Chilling Nights (Vintage Murders)
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts
The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
I’m Not Supposed to Be In the Dark
Lockjaw
The House of Lost Wives
Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Vanishing Daughters
Tales Accursed: A Folk Horror Anthology
Jasmine Is Haunted
Why Didn't You Just Leave
Summoned to the Séance: Spirit Tales from Beyond the Veil (British Library Tales of the Weird)
Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles (British Library Tales of the Weird)
The Haunted Library: Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves (British Library Tales of the Weird)
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
A Christmas Ghost Story
Cinderwich
Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird (British Library Tales of the Weird)
BuzzFeed Unsolved Supernatural: 101 True Tales of Hauntings, Demons, and the Paranormal

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Quotes Tagged “Ghost Stories”

Jennifer Egan
“ There are no ghosts in this story, I say to Davis. Oh yeah? Then show me where the people are. I look up at him. What people? Davis waves the pages I've left on my tray so they flap in the air. These people, he says. I can see them, I can hear them, I know them, but they're not in this room. They're not on this block. They're not in this prison or this town or this country or even this same world as you and me. They're in some other place. […] They're ghosts, brother, he says. Not alive, not dea ...more ”
― Jennifer Egan, The Keep
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Jonathan Dunne
“ I had the most beautiful sleep; I dreamt of Kells, and we were in the mirror together. ”
― Jonathan Dunne, Drive: An Old Castle Novel
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Videos Tagged “Ghost Stories”

Ghosts In Our Backyard
Ghosts In Our Backyard
India's Most Haunted (2019) - Official Trailer
India's Most Haunted (2019) - Official Trailer
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Groups Tagged "Ghost Stories"

Folk Legends and Tales A group for those you like creatures of mystery, legend, ghost stories, fairy tales, and much mo…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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