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Shannon's "Ghost Stories: A Reading List"

Novels about ghosts, primarily haunted house stories.

Note: With some exceptions, short story collections, young adult fiction and series have been eliminated if so identified. Also, I have striven to include high-quality books only.
2. The Amityville Horror
by Jay Anson
  
4. Bag of Bones
by Stephen King
  
5. By Blood Possessed
by Elena Santangelo
  
6. Carmilla
by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  
11.
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 The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
12. A Fine and Private Place
by Peter S. Beagle
  
18. Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
  
20.
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 The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
  
21. Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
23. The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
  
24. Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel
by Joe Hill
  
25. Hell House
by Richard Matheson
  
26. The House Next Door
by Anne Rivers Siddons
  
30. Instances of the Number 3: A Novel
by Salley Vickers
  
31. In the Country of the Young
by Lisa Carey
  
36. The Night Country: A Novel
by Stewart O'Nan
  
40.
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 The Rats in the Walls (1923)
by H.P. Lovecraft
  
41. Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
42. The Rosewood Casket
by Sharyn McCrumb
  
44. The Shining
by Stephen King
  
46. Specimen Days: A Novel
by Michael Cunningham
  
49. Talking to the Dead: A Novel
by Bonnie Grove
  
52. The Turn of the Screw: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)
by Henry James
  
54. A Visitation of Spirits: A Novel
by Randall Kenan
  
55. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Shirley Jackson
  
56. The Wood Wife
by Terri Windling
  
57.
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 Haunted
by James Herbert
  
60. Nobody True
by James Herbert
  
61. The Death You Deserve: A Novel
by David Bowker
  
62. Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel
by Audrey Niffenegger
  
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Created by Shannon on Jul 01, 2008.