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Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 759,756 ratings — published 1938
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.94 — 965,340 ratings — published 2021
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.81 — 420,088 ratings — published 1959
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,761,727 ratings — published 1977
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,486,302 ratings — published 2002
The September House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.85 — 106,723 ratings — published 2023
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,280,586 ratings — published 1847
Home Before Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.04 — 340,802 ratings — published 2020
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,968,266 ratings — published 2005
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.99 — 511,695 ratings — published 1987
The Haunting of Ashburn House (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.81 — 44,778 ratings — published 2016
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,991,002 ratings — published 1818
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.63 — 180,114 ratings — published 2023
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,475,459 ratings — published 2014
Hell House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.67 — 66,356 ratings — published 1971
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.85 — 907,051 ratings — published 2005
Incidents Around the House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.55 — 112,637 ratings — published 2024
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.58 — 324,143 ratings — published 2024
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.20 — 562,819 ratings — published 2020
The Sun Down Motel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.99 — 202,255 ratings — published 2020
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.04 — 676,566 ratings — published 1995
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.64 — 133,957 ratings — published 2014
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.06 — 644,225 ratings — published 2014
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.65 — 448,281 ratings — published 2007
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,988,081 ratings — published 1890
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,112,800 ratings — published 1992
Diavola (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.79 — 45,163 ratings — published 2024
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.84 — 62,870 ratings — published 2022
The Broken Girls (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.05 — 135,026 ratings — published 2018
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.06 — 384,158 ratings — published 1892
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.91 — 108,083 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,315,801 ratings — published 1947
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,546,102 ratings — published 1985
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.66 — 463,413 ratings — published 2020
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,776,784 ratings — published 2018
The Haunting of Maddy Clare (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,908 ratings — published 2012
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,728,986 ratings — published 1949
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.38 — 187,012 ratings — published 1898
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,303,694 ratings — published 1963
Gallows Hill (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.90 — 16,932 ratings — published 2022
Episode Thirteen (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.47 — 31,277 ratings — published 2023
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,113,881 ratings — published 2018
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.99 — 439,924 ratings — published 2019
The Carrow Haunt (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,723 ratings — published 2018
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.09 — 211,792 ratings — published 2000
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.01 — 665,560 ratings — published 2013
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,156,651 ratings — published 2011
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.90 — 315,981 ratings — published 1962
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,533,816 ratings — published 1897
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as haunting)
avg rating 3.92 — 214,988 ratings — published 1998
“Damn her. She plagues my soul.”
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
― Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
“The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into the hall was open at our backs, and a panel of light from the lamps within was cast out to the terrace. Wandering moths, invisible in the darkness, suddenly became manifest as they fluttered into this illumination, and vanished again as they passed out of it. One moment they were there, living things with life and motion of their own, the next they quite disappeared. How inexplicable that would be, I thought, if one did not know from long familiarity, that light of the appropriate sort and strength is needed to make material objects visible.
Philip must have been following precisely the same train of thought, for his voice broke in, carrying it a little further.
'Look at that moth,' he said, 'and even while you look it has gone like a ghost, even as like a ghost it appeared. Light made it visible. And there are other sorts of light, interior psychical light which similarly makes visible the beings which people the darkness of our blindness.' ("Expiation")”
― The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
Philip must have been following precisely the same train of thought, for his voice broke in, carrying it a little further.
'Look at that moth,' he said, 'and even while you look it has gone like a ghost, even as like a ghost it appeared. Light made it visible. And there are other sorts of light, interior psychical light which similarly makes visible the beings which people the darkness of our blindness.' ("Expiation")”
― The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
