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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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New Releases Tagged "Ghost Stories"

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Haunt Sweet Home
The Ghost Cat
Gallows Hill
Perron Manor (Haunted, #1)
Ghost Eaters
Honeysuckle and Bone
Little Ghosts
The Ravenous Dead (Gravekeeper, #2)
The Haunting of Brynn Wilder
A Haunting on the Hill
The Haunting of Hill House
The Woman in Black
The Turn of the Screw
The Graveyard Book
Her Fearful Symmetry
A Christmas Carol
The Little Stranger
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Collected Ghost Stories
Dark Matter: A Ghost Story
Heart-Shaped Box
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
This House Is Haunted
Wait Till Helen Comes
The Canterville Ghost
Harvest Home by Thomas TryonCollected Ghost Stories by M.R. JamesThe White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur MachenThe Great God Pan by Arthur MachenWylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
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332 books — 148 voters

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Top Paranormal Books to Read
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Haunted Theaters
59 books — 30 voters

The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesSilence for the Dead by Simone St. JamesThe Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine ArdenThe Other Side of Midnight by Simone St. JamesLost Among the Living by Simone St. James
World War One + 1920s Ghost Stories
20 books — 9 voters
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American Folklore
148 books — 16 voters


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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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