The Shining
Stephen King
1977
Books with the “Ghost Story” trope
A tale of ghosts and the supernatural unsettling the living.
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Genre tropes · Ghost Story
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Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo
2019
Unbreakable
Kami Garcia
2013
Rivers of London
Ben Aaronovitch
2011
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
1898
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
1959
Hell House
Richard Matheson
1971
Ghost Story
Peter Straub
1979
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
1983
Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill
2007
The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
2009
Slade House
David Mitchell
2015
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
2017
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
2008
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
M. R. James
1904
Beloved
Toni Morrison
1987
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
2020
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
2002
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
2017
Cemetery Boys
Aiden Thomas
2020
The Spite House
Johnny Compton
2023
Ghost Eaters
Clay McLeod Chapman
2022
The Reformatory
Tananarive Due
2023
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
1973
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