Scary ghost stories - no zombies, vampires or werewolves, please

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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
9,421 members
295 reviews
½ 3.4
8 Members
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3
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
5,628 members
357 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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4
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
by M. R. James
924 members
32 reviews
4
5 Members
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5
The Monkey's Paw [short story]
by W. W. Jacobs
396 members
20 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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6
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
29,389 members
597 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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7
The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story
by Susan Hill
4,203 members
254 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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8
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings [Bantam Classics]
by Edgar Allan Poe
2,872 members
28 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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9
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
24,904 members
1,313 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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10
The Girl in a Swing
by Richard Adams
910 members
16 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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11
The Shining
by Stephen King
27,294 members
530 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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12
Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce
by Ambrose Bierce
395 members
5 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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13
The Lottery [short story]
by Shirley Jackson
1,429 members
54 reviews
4
3 Members
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14
The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly
7,570 members
343 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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15
Hell House
by Richard Matheson
2,902 members
115 reviews
½ 3.5
4 Members
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16
Bag of Bones
by Stephen King
12,642 members
157 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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17
The Ghost Pirates
by William Hope Hodgson
299 members
7 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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18
Duma Key
by Stephen King
9,416 members
265 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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19
The Alabaster Hand
by A. N. L. Munby
72 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
Alex_Maybe
20
The Faceless
by Simon Bestwick
39 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
magnumpigg
21
Harper: A Collection of Horrors
by Gunnar K. A. Njalsson
1 member
1 review
5
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22
Her Fearful Symmetry
by Audrey Niffenegger
7,449 members
475 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
4,391 members
117 reviews
3.8
Member
susiesharp
24
Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New
by Marvin Kaye
367 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
25
Walkers
by Graham Masterton
221 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
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magnumpigg
26
Pigeons from Hell
by Robert E. Howard
168 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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27
In Ghostly Company
by Amyas Northcote
86 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Alex_Maybe
28
Plain Bad Heroines
by Emily M. Danforth
1,616 members
70 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
29
I Remember You
by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
705 members
55 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
geitebukkeskjegg
30
The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories
by Marjorie Bowen
176 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
Alex_Maybe
31
Five Mile House: A Novel
by Karen Novak
117 members
7 reviews
3
Member
lahochstetler
32
A Manhattan Ghost Story
by T.M. Wright
101 members
1 review
½ 3.4
Member
magnumpigg
33
The Broken Girls
by Simone St. James
2,344 members
137 reviews
4
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ManWithAnAgenda
34
White Is for Witching
by Helen Oyeyemi
1,446 members
54 reviews
½ 3.4
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GreenVelvet
35
The Supernatural Omnibus: Hauntings and Horror v. 1
by Montague Summers
22 members
½ 4.3
Member
abbottthomas
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Ghost Gleams
by W. J. Wintle
20 members
2 reviews
½ 2.5
Member
Alex_Maybe
37
The Only Good Indians
by Stephen Graham Jones
3,939 members
139 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
38
The Supernatural Enhancements
by Edgar Cantero
773 members
49 reviews
½ 3.7
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GreenVelvet
39
The Daylight Gate
by Jeanette Winterson
768 members
48 reviews
½ 3.5
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GreenVelvet
40
The Upstairs House
by Julia Fine
161 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
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ManWithAnAgenda
41
The Prestige
by Christopher Priest
3,783 members
149 reviews
3.8
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GreenVelvet
42
The Blade Between
by Sam J. Miller
127 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
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ManWithAnAgenda
43
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
38,781 members
974 reviews
½ 3.7
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ahef1963
44
Vision
by Julia Gfrorer
42 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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ManWithAnAgenda
45
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
18,343 members
931 reviews
4
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ahef1963
46
The Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories Chosen by Edward Gorey
by Edward Gorey
750 members
7 reviews
4.2
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ManWithAnAgenda
47
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
by Cherie Priest
824 members
38 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
48
A Head Full of Ghosts
by Paul Tremblay
2,802 members
160 reviews
½ 3.7
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ahef1963
49
The White Devil
by Justin Evans
396 members
38 reviews
½ 3.5
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Chatterbox,
50
Five Victorian Ghost Novels
by Everett F. Bleiler
157 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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Alex_Maybe
51
Doctor Sleep
by Stephen King
9,848 members
359 reviews
4
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52
The Black House
by Paul Theroux
146 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
53
Sweetheart, Sweetheart
by Bernard Taylor
159 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7