18 books like The Best Ghost Stories Ever

What to read after The Best Ghost Stories Ever — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Fireside Al's Treasury of Classic Stories Alan Maitland · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- A tradition of eighteen hundred and four / Thomas Hardy -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Michael / William Wordsworth -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain -- The signalman / Charles Dickens -- Come again in the spring / Richard Kennedy -- In my… Shares: Hematidrosis, Daggers, Abbeys, Juvenile audience

The Fantasy Hall of Fame [22 stories] Robert Silverberg · 1983 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares: Hematidrosis, Daggers, Abbeys, Juvenile audience Shares: Hematidrosis, Daggers, Abbeys, Juvenile audience

The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume IV - Tales Edgar Allan Poe · 1902 · 335p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Business Man Colloquy of Monos and Una Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Descent into the Maelstrom Eleonora Island of the Fay Journal of Julius Rodman Man of the Crowd Masque of the Red Death Murders in the Rug Morgue Mystification Never Bet the Devil Your Head Oval Portrait Three Sundays in a Week Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling Shares: Hematidrosis, Daggers, Abbeys, Juvenile audience

A study of the short story Henry Seidel Canby · 1913 · 273p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares: Hematidrosis, Daggers, Abbeys, Juvenile audience Shares: Hematidrosis, Daggers, Abbeys, Juvenile audience

The Watch House Robert Westall · 1977 · ★ 3.6 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Moderate While spending the summer with her old nurse on the north English coast, a teen-age girl discovers that her presence in the nearby Watch House, a museum containing relics of shipwrecks and rescues, releases a powerful and evil ghost. Shares: Houses, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [12 stories] Edgar Allan Poe · 1965 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares: Daggers, Abbeys, American Horror tales, Horror stories Shares: Daggers, Abbeys, American Horror tales, Horror stories

The Headless Ghost Robert Lawrence Stine · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Everyone knows about Hill House. It's the biggest tourist attraction in town. That's because it's haunted. Haunted by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old boy. A boy with no head! Duane and Stephanie love Hill House. It's dark. And creepy. And totally scary. Still, they've never actually seen the ghost. Until the night they decide to go on a search. A search for his head... Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Horror stories, Horror

The house of the nightmare, and other eerie tales Kathleen Lines · 1967 · ★ 3.6 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate CONTENTS: 1 - FROM IMAGINATION The House Of The Nightmare by Edward Lucas White The Hauntings At Thorhallstead by Allen French His Own Number by William Croft Dickinson Gabriel-Ernest by Saki Hand In Glove by Elizabeth Bowen Mr. Fox (traditional english tale) by Anonymous Curfew by L.M. Boston John Bartine's Watch by Ambrose Bierce The Monkey's Paw by W.W.Jacobs My Grandfather, Hendry Watty by… Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Horror stories, Horror

Great Ghost Stories Betty Ann Schwartz · 1985 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe A GHOST STORY by Mark Twain THE SECRET OF THE GROWING GOLD by Bram Stoker THE OPEN WINDOW by Saki CAPTAIN MURDERER AND THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN by Charles Dickens THE BOY WHO DREW CATS by Lafcadio Hearn THE RED ROOM by H. G. Wells YESTERDAY'S WITCH by Gahan Wilson THE ADVENTURE OF THE GERMAN STUDENT by Washington Irving THE HAUNTED TRAILER by Robert Arthur THE… Shares: Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Ghost Stories, Ghosts

A Shocking Accident Sara Corrin · 2003 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A shocking accident / Graham Greene -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The fiery wooing of Mordred / P.G. Wodehouse -- How un-American can you get? / Art Buchwald -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- To build a fire / Jack London -- At the airport / Marina Mizzau -- Children of the vaults / Vladimir Korolenko -- The night the bed fell / James Thurber -- Roosya / Ivan Bunin… Shares: Juvenile audience, Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Short Stories

Thrillers and More Thrillers Robert Arthur · 1968 · ★ 4.0 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Mr. George, by A. Derleth. -- The calamander chest, by J. P. Brennan. -- The poison necklace, by M. A. DeFord. -- The bottle imp, by R. L. Stevenson. -- My displaced ghosts, by J. West. -- Faith, hope, and charity, by I. S. Cobb. -- Mrs. Manifold, by S. Grendon. -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole, by T. Burke. -- Tell-tale Heart, by E. A. Poe. Shares: Juvenile audience, Gothic fiction, American Horror tales, Short Stories

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural Patricia McKissack · 1992 · ★ 3.9 · 122p · ≈ 4h · Moderate A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable. Shares: American Horror tales, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Horror stories

The Ghost Belonged to Me Richard Peck · 1975 · ★ 4.8 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In this story set in 1913, Blossom Culp, Alexander Armsworth, adventurer Miles Armsworth, and Blossom's spiritualist mother set out to exorcise a ghost. Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

Behind the Attic Wall Sylvia Cassedy · 1983 · ★ 4.1 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Behind the Attic Wall is a children's novel by Sylvia Cassedy, first published in 1983. At twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said — nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving — anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school. Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy… Shares: Houses, Juvenile audience, Ghost Stories, Ghosts

My Best Friend is Invisible Robert Lawrence Stine · 1997 · ★ 3.6 · 122p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Sammy Jacobs is into ghosts and science fiction. Not exactly the smartest hobby--at least not if you ask Sammy's parents. They're research scientists and they only believe in real science. But now Sammy's met someone who's totally unreal. He's hanging out in Sammy's room. And eating his cereal at breakfast. Sammy's got to find a way to get rid of his new "friend." Only problem is...Sammy's new… Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Horror stories, Horror

Gespensterjäger Cornelia Funke · 1993 · ★ 2.0 · 135p · ≈ 4h · Moderate German-language description: Ein schleimiges Gespenst sitzt im Keller! Tom will nur noch eines: flüchten. Doch da bietet ihm die erfahrene Gespensterjägerin Hedwig Kümmelsaft ihre Hilfe an und Tom traut sich, das Gespenst zu verjagen. ---------- Timid nine-year-old Tom Tomsky reluctantly agrees to help professional ghostbuster Hetty Camomile dispel an IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) from an… Shares: Houses, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction

Remember me 3 Christopher Pike · 1995 · ★ 3.0 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Someone did not like Shari Cooper writing her stories. Shari Cooper had died once, and then returned to earth as a Wanderer - a soul who had been given permission to take the place of another soul in a mature body. Shari has regained her memory of her previous life. More than that, she has realized her purpose in returning to mortal life. To write stories for young people to help them understand… Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Horror, Children's fiction

Goosebumps - One Day at Horrorland Robert Lawrence Stine · 1994 · ★ 3.8 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Moderate When they get lost on their way to Zoo Gardens Theme Park, the Morris family instead finds Horrorland, an amusement park with no crowds, no lines, and heart-stopping rides that go beyond creepy. Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Horror stories, Horror

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