Great Ghost Stories
Staff compiled their ghost story picks for this Halloween season.
It’s getting dark out earlier and Halloween is in sight so we thought it would be a perfect time to share some of our favorite ghost stories. Here’s a staff-suggested list of book and movie picks.
Fiction Picks
Tamsin
by Peter S. Beagle
Embers
by Laura Bickle (review)
The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll (review)
The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint (review)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (review)
Picture the Dead by Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown
Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
The Man in the Picture by Sue Hill
Adrift on the Haunted
Seas: The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson by
WIlliam Hope Hodgson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The
Shining by Stephen King
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Hell House by Richard Matheson
Cyrer’s Cross by Lisa McMann
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Zen
Ghosts by Jon J. Muth
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (Sara's
review & Sarah's
review)
Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The
Restorer by Amanda Stevens (review)
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Ringu
by Koji Suzuki
Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (review)
The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
The Canterville
Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Ghosts by Gaslight:
Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural and Suspense
Masters of Shades and
Shadows: An Anthology of Great Ghost Stories
Movies
The Amityville Horror
A Christmas Carol
(1999)
The Devil's
Backbone
Ghost
Ghostbusters
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Ghost Town (review)
The
Grudge
Hamlet
(2010)
The Haunting
(1963)
House on Haunted
Hill (1959)
The Orphanage
Poltergeist
The
Ring
The Shining (1980)
The Sixth Sense
