Portal:Ghost stories

Collections

 * Tales of the Dead, 1813 translated by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson
 * The Family Portraits, by Johann August Apel
 * The Fated Hour by Friedrich August Schulze
 * The Death's Head by Friedrich August Schulze
 * The Death-Bride by Friedrich August Schulze
 * The Storm by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson
 * The Spectre-Barber by Johann Karl August Musäus
 * The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories, 1888 by Rudyard Kipling
 * Journal at Geneva (including Ghost Stories) and on Return to England, 1816 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
 * A Book of Ghosts, 1904 by Sabine Baring-Gould
 * Jean Bouchon
 * Pomps and Vanities
 * McAlister
 * The Leaden Ring
 * The Mother of Pansies
 * The Red-haired Girl
 * A Professional Secret
 * H.P.
 * Glámr
 * Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story
 * The Merewigs
 * The "Bold Venture"
 * Mustapha
 * Little Joe Gander
 * A Dead Finger
 * Black Ram
 * A Happy Release
 * The 9.30 Up-train
 * On the Leads
 * Aunt Joanna
 * The White Flag


 * Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1904 by Montague Rhodes James
 * Canon Alberic's Scrapbook
 * Lost Hearts
 * The Mezzotint
 * The Ash-tree
 * Number 13
 * Count Magnus
 * 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad'
 * The Treasure of Abbot Thomas


 * More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, 1911 by Montague Rhodes James


 * Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories, 1913 by Ambrose Bierce
 * Present at a Hanging
 * A Cold Greeting
 * A Wireless Message
 * An Arrest
 * A Man with Two Lives
 * Three and One Are One
 * A Baffled Ambuscade
 * Two Military Executions
 * The Isle of Pines
 * A Fruitless Assignment
 * A Vine on a House
 * At Old Man Eckert’s
 * The Spook House
 * The Other Lodgers
 * The Thing at Nolan
 * The Difficulty of Crossing a Field
 * An Unfinished Race
 * Charles Ashmore’s Trail
 * Science to the Front


 * The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, 1916 by Algernon Blackwood
 * The Empty House
 * A Haunted Island
 * A Case of Eavesdropping
 * Keeping His Promise
 * With Intent to Steal
 * The Wood of the Dead
 * Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House
 * A Suspicious Gift
 * The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York
 * Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp


 * A Thin Ghost and Others, 1919 by Montague Rhodes James
 * The Best Ghost Stories, 1919


 * Three Ghost Stories, by Charles Dickens
 * True Irish Ghost Stories, by St. John Drelincourt Seymour
 * Greek and Roman Ghost Stories, by Lacy Collison-Morley
 * Real Ghost Stories, by William T. Stead
 * Some Chinese Ghosts, by Lafcadio Hearn
 * Indian Ghost Stories, by Author:S. Mukerji
 * Famous Modern Ghost Stories, compiled by Dorothy Scarborough

Individual stories

 * The Spectre Bridegroom, 1819 by Washington Irving
 * The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1820 by Washington Irving
 * The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1819
 * The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1864 edition
 * The Spectre Bride, 1821 by William Harrison Ainsworth
 * The Lifted Veil, 1859 by George Eliot
 * Glámr, 1863 by Sabine Baring-Gould
 * The Trial for Murder, 1865 by Charles Dickens
 * The Signal-Man, 1866 by Charles Dickens
 * The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House, 1870 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
 * A Ghost Story, 1870 by Mark Twain
 * The Canterville Ghost, 1887 parody by Oscar Wilde
 * The Lost Stradivarius, 1895 by J. Meade Falkner
 * The Turn of the Screw, 1898 by Henry James
 * The Ghost Ship, 1901 by John Conroy Hutcheson
 * The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost, 1902 by H. G. Wells
 * 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad', 1904 by Montague Rhodes James
 * The Ash-tree, 1904 by Montague Rhodes James
 * Black Ram, 1904 by Sabine Baring-Gould
 * Canon Alberic's Scrapbook, 1904 by Montague Rhodes James
 * Count Magnus, 1904 by Montague Rhodes James
 * Little Joe Gander, 1904 by Montague Rhodes James
 * Lost Hearts, 1904 by Montague Rhodes James
 * The Mezzotint, 1904 by Montague Rhodes James
 * Number 13, 1904 by Montague Rhodes James
 * The Treasure of Abbot Thomas, 1904 by Montague Rhodes James
 * The Jolly Corner, 1908 by Henry James
 * The Ghost Pirates, 1909 by William Hope Hodgson
 * The Ghost of Mohammed Din, 1910 by Clark Ashton Smith
 * He, 1926 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
 * The Night Wire, 1926 by Henry Ferris Arnold
 * Apparition in the Prize Ring, 1929 by Robert Ervin Howard
 * The Evil Clergyman, 1939 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
 * The Evil Clergyman, 1939 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft


 * The Ghost of Art, by Charles Dickens
 * The Haunted-House by Charles Dickens

Sheridan Le Fanu
Le Fanu was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. He had enormous influence on the 20th century's most important ghost story writer, M. R. James, and although his work fell out of favour in the early part of the 20th century, towards the end of the century interest in his work increased and remains comparatively strong.


 * A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family, 1839
 * An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street, 1851
 * An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald, a Royalist Captain
 * An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House
 * Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory
 * Dickon the Devil
 * Ghost Stories of Chapelizod
 * Green Tea
 * Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow
 * Laura Silver Bell
 * Madam Crowl's Ghost
 * Mr Justice Harbottle
 * Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess
 * Schalken the Painter
 * Scraps of Hibernian Ballads
 * Stories of Lough Guir
 * Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
 * The &quot;Bold Venture&quot;
 * The Bridal of Carrigvarah
 * The Child That Went with the Fairies
 * The Dead Sexton
 * The Drunkard's Dream
 * The Evil Guest
 * The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh
 * The Ghost and the Bone-Setter
 * The Haunted Baronet
 * The Last Heir of Castle Connor
 * The Murdered Cousin
 * The Mysterious Lodger
 * The Quare Gander
 * The Vision of Tom Chuff
 * Ultor de Lacy
 * Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling

Verse



 * Admiral Hosier's Ghost, by Richard Glover
 * Our Little Ghost, 1875 by Louisa May Alcott
 * A Florida Ghost, 1877 by Sidney Lanier
 * The Moor Ghost, by Robert E. Howard
 * Ghost House, 1913 by Robert Frost
 * The Ghost, 1918 by Sara Teasdale
 * The only Ghost I ever saw, by Emily Dickinson