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Spooky season is here and to celebrate we’ll be discussing a different genre of scary books every week. This week, we’re discussing our favorite ghost stories!
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Henry James’ *The Turn of the Screw*.
Lafcadio Hearn’s *Kwaidan* et al.
E.F. Benson
Edith Wharton
MR James. Legitimately perfect
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
The Signalman by Charles Dickens
https://shortstoryamerica.com/pdf_classics/dickens_the_signal_man.pdf
Let Loose – Mary Cholmondeley
Does *A Night In The Lonesome October* count?
* *Dark Matter* by Michelle Paver
* *The Woman in Black* by Susan Hill
* *Small Angels* by Lauren Owen
* *The Apparation Phase* by Will Maclean
Some great ghost story writers:
Robert Aickman (Ringing the Changes, A Roman Question)
Joan Aiken (The Road from Rushout Wood)
Algernon Blackwood (The Kit-Bag)
E F Benson
A F Burrage (Smee)
Sheridan Le Fanu (Madam Crowl’s Ghost, Schalken the Painter, Wicked Captain Walshawe)
L P Hartley (A Visitor from Down Under, A Change of Ownership)
W F Harvey (The Beast with Five Fingers)
R H Malden (Stivinghoe Bank)
Walter de la Mare (A Recluse, Seaton’s Aunt)
A N L Munby (The Tudor Chimney)
Oliver Onions (The Beckoning Fair One)
L T C Rolt (Music Hath Charms, Cwm Garon, Hawley Bank Foundry)
H Russell Wakefield (The Red Lodge, Blind Man’s Buff)
Stories:
The Crown Derby Plate, by Marjorie Bowen
Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk, by Frank Cowper
The House of Balfother, by William Croft Dickinson
The Axe, by Penelope Fitzgerald
Don’t Tell Cissie, by Celia Fremlin
The Trapdoor, by C D Heriot
The Sand-Walker, by Fergus Hume
Thurnley Abbey, by Percival Landon
Death’s Door, by Robert McNear
I just finally read Peter Straub’s Ghost Story this year. I can see now why he’s one of the masters.
Oh also! If you dig anthologies, read October Dreams. There’s a little something for everyone.
Oh my goodness, Lincoln in the Bardo. It’s not exactly spooky, but it is brilliant.