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Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu

by J. Sheridan LeFanu

Here are 16 classic ghost stories: "Carmilla," (perhaps the classic vampire thriller), "Green Tea," "The Familiar," "The Haunted Baronet," "Madam Crowl's Ghost," "The Dead Sexton," "An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House," plus nine others. Half these stories never published before in U.S.

The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories

The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories

Expanded with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead—from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, including the erotic. ... (more)

Being Dead

by Vivian Vande Velde

A sixteen-year-old will give anything to be with her true love--even though he died two hundred years ago. . . . A sopping-wet little dead girl stalks a teen who had nothing to do with her death--honest! . . . A heartless man dances with his wife-- after she's passed away. From the hilarious to the horrific, master storyteller Vivian Vande Velde explores the world of the dead--and the undead--in this... (more)

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library)

by Herbert A. Wise, Phyllis Cerf Wagner, Phyllis Cerf

When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly... (more)

The Ghost Writer

by John Harwood

In this tantalizing tale of Victorian ghost stories and family secrets, timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother's drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. As he discovers more of Viola's chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to... (more)

Sorcerers of the Nightwing (The Ravenscliff Series, Book 1)

The Ravenscliff: Book 1

Sorcerers of the Nightwing (The Ravenscliff Series, Book 1)

by Geoffrey Huntington

Is this the destiny he had come to find? To die in a house of secrets, to discover not his past but his fate: doomed to spend eternity as one more ghost haunting the halls of Ravenscliff? Every kid fears the monsters in the closet -- but for Devon March, the monsters are all too real. At fourteen, Devon is sent to live at Ravenscliff, a dark seaside mansion where secrets abound and the dead just won't stay... (more)

Ghosts Among Us: True Stories of Spirit Encounters

Ghosts Among Us: True Stories of Spirit Encounters

by Leslie Rule

Do you believe in ghosts? Whether you are a believer or a skeptic, the stories of the supernatural in Ghosts Among Us: True Stories of Spirit Encounters will keep you riveted. Macabre and fascinating, Ghosts Among Us offers true-life, haunting accounts of eerie visitations and paranormal experiences along with artistically shot black-and-white photographs of haunted sites. The personal, firsthand reports... (more)

Great Ghost Stories: Tales Of Mystery And Madness

Great Ghost Stories: Tales Of Mystery And Madness

Featuring eerily atmospheric modern tales of foreboding and unease by such contemporary authors as Garry Kilworth, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Tony Richards, and R. Chetwynd-Hayes, as well as disquieting classic ghost stories by literary giants like Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Scott, F. Marion Crawford, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu, this anthology of highly original and often long-obscure works by... (more)

Chicago Haunts: Ghostly Lore of the Windy City

Chicago Haunts: Ghostly Lore of the Windy City

by Ursula Bielski

With the first edition of Chicago Haunts, author Ursula Bielski captured 160 years of Chicago's haunted history in the first volume ever devoted to this intriguing subject. Combining lively storytelling with in-depth historical research, exclusive interviews, and insights from parapsychology, Bielski penned a unique and fascinating exploration of the region's supernatural folklore.

Historic Haunted America

by Michael Norman

Historic Haunted America is an engrossing investigation into North American ghost legends, a comprehensive documenting yesterday and today's most shocking hauntings in the United States and Canada. From the ghost-ridden forts in Old Tucson to the "Inn of the 17 Ghosts" near Philadelphia, from the haunted plantations of Louisiana and Georgia to a haunted community playhouse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Michael... (more)

Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family's Experience Living in a Haunted House

Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family's Experience Living in a Haunted House

by Dorah L. Williams

It was an irrational decision. Despite having just moved into a beautiful new house, the Williams family gave in to an odd, overwhelming desire to purchase and move into a Victorian home they had come upon by chance. They were curious, of course, as to why the house had, in the past, had such a high vacancy rate - no one ever seemed to live in it for a long period of time. But that curiosity didn't last long,... (more)

The Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

The Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood

by Algernon Blackwood

Thirteen great stories by foremost British 20th-century supernaturalist: "The Willows," "The Wendigo," "Ancient Sorceries," others.

Who's There?

by Stephanie S. Tolan

When fourteen-year-old Drew and her mute younger brother come to live with their father's estranged relatives after their parents' sudden death, they discover that the house is haunted by ghosts and a deadly family secret.

Ghost Stories of Illinois (Ghost Stories (Lone Pine))

Ghost Stories of Illinois (Ghost Stories (Lone Pine))

by Jo-Anne Christensen

Enjoy 75 accounts of ghostly visitations--among them spirits from the Great Chicago Fire, the curse of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, a spectral steamboat on Fulton County's Spoon River and the wandering ghost of Abe Lincoln.

Ghost Stories of Texas

by Jo Anne Christensen

Classic American Ghost Stories

by Deborah Downer

Downer brings together stories from newspapers, journals and magazines--none of which were written as fictitious--that tell of phantoms and ghosts from across the nation.

True Ghost Stories

by Hans Holzer

True Ghost Stories is a collection of 38 case histories of real haunting from America's best known investigator of the paranormal, Dr. Hanz Holzer. Actual experiences of seemingly inexplicable phenomena, investigated in great depth from a scientific point of view by Dr. Holzer himself, introduce you to strange happenings and ghostly "stay-behinds" in all areas of the United States. From the northeast through the... (more)

Ghost Stories of Indiana (Ghost Stories of)

Ghost Stories of Indiana (Ghost Stories of)

by Edrick Thay

Ghost Stories of Ohio (Ghost Stories of)

Ghost Stories of Ohio (Ghost Stories of)

by Edrick Thay

Crack open this book and you'll enter the strange world of Ohio's paranormal legacy. As revenge against his faithless fiancee, an Egypt Pike man spends his afterlife terrifying contented lovers who cross the bridge where he took his own life. At the site of a horrific train wreck that claimed nearly 100 lives, the ghosts of victims return in search of answers. The inspiration behind a motion picture, a mysterious... (more)

Ghost Stories of Georgia: True Tales of Ghostly Hauntings (Ghost Stories (Lone Pine))

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by J. Sheridan LeFanu

by Vivian Vande Velde

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by Leslie Rule

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by Michael Norman

by Dorah L. Williams

by Algernon Blackwood

by Stephanie S. Tolan

by Jo-Anne Christensen

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by Deborah Downer

by Hans Holzer

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