 | The Fabric of Sin (Merrily Watkins Mysteries) by Phil Rickman
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.50 This ninth Merrily Watkins procedural tangles Freemasons, Knights Templar, M.R. James, and murder together in a haunted house on the Welsh border. Rickman always leaves the reader wondering if there really was a ghost in this particular mystery series.
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 | The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics) by Shirley Jackson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.99 The greatest haunted house novel of all, and an exception to the rule that it is hard to sustain terror throughout an entire book. No gross-outs, just pure terror.
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 | Naomi's Room by Jonathan Aycliffe
Buy used from: $59.65 Denis McEoin a.k.a. Jonathan Aycliffe a.k.a. Daniel Easterman relies on a common theme in many of his ghostly novels, i.e. child abuse taken to the grave and beyond. Houses haunted by ghostly children are the worst of all.
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 | A Garden Lost in Time (A & B Crime) by Jonathan Aycliffe
Buy used from: $21.10 Jonathan Aycliffe is my favorite living writer of the supernatural, and this book about the haunted Trevelyan Priors has some very spooky moments.
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 | Haunted Houses: The Greatest Stories
Buy used from: $0.01 Kudos to Martin H. Greenberg for searching out good haunted house stories that haven't yet been over-collected, although there are also a few old favorites in this book.
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 | Haunted Heartland (Dorset Reprints Series) by Beth Scott
Buy used from: $0.01 The stories (many but not all concerning haunted houses) are arranged by state, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Many of the contemporary accounts have never been published, before appearing in this book.
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 | A Shadow on the Wall by Jonathan Aycliffe
Buy used from: $11.01 Okay, one more Aycliffe, this time a haunted church. Mysterious scripture appears on a tombstone ('He shall return out of the dark')as an Anglican priest attempts to renovate a church deep in the East Anglican fens.
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| Haunted castles by Marc Alexander
Buy used from: $58.13 Marc Alexander has published the ultimate tour guide to the haunted castles of Great Britain. His book was published back in 1974, but I don't imagine that it has gone out-of-date. What do the Grey Ladies, Phantom Pipers, and assorted ghostly prisoners in their dungeons care about the passage of time?
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| Haunted Inns by Marc Alexander
If you are contemplating a ghostly tour of Great Britain, book reservations as suggested by "Haunted Inns," and you won't have to ghost-watch through the midnight hours in some damp, ruined abbey. You can try for a sighting in the comfort of your own hotel room.
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| Haunted Churches and Abbeys of Britain by Marc Alexander
Buy used from: $46.27 A nifty guide for those of us who would actually like to catch sight of a headless monk or two. The author gives directions to the various churches, ruined abbeys, priories, graveyards, and pubs (yes, pubs) in Great Britain that are reputed to be haunted by religious bodies.
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 | December by Phil Rickman
Buy used from: $0.01 All of the musicians who attempted to record an album in an ancient abbey-turned-recording-studio on the date of John Lennon's death are traumatized by a tragedy that gradually works its way to the surface through the course of this novel.
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| Lord Halifax's Complete Ghost Book by Charles Lindley
Buy used from: $1.48 Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax wrote stories (purported to be eye-witness accounts) of haunted castles, abbeys, and bungalows and brought them out to read to his children at Christmas. Included (naturally) is "The Secret of Glamis."
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 | The Shining by Stephen King
Buy used from: $3.02 Jack Torrance and his family attempt to spend the winter alone in the Overlook Hotel in Colorado. The best haunted hotel in fiction--much better than the movie that was made from it.
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 | Night Stalks the Mansion: A True Story of One Family's Ghostly Adventure by Constance Westbie
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.95 There are lots of purportedly true tales of families who lived in haunted houses, but this one by the late Constance Westbie and Harold Cameron won the 1977 National Writers Club Award for Nonfiction.
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 | Hell House by Richard Matheson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.48 According to Stephen King, "Hell House is the scariest haunted house novel ever written. It looms over the rest the way the mountains loom over the foothills." I thought the ending was a bit silly, though.
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 | The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.90 For a change, this haunted house is completely modern. One by one, three families move into the house next to the narrator, and very horrible things happen to them. I love the ending.
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| Cambridge College Ghosts by Geoff Yeates
Buy used from: $1.98 A short, lively history of Cambridge University and its colleges, with detailed architectural descriptions of the buildings, and lively anecdotes about its residents, living and deceased. Only about 10% ghost stories, but worth reading if you're travelling to Cambridge.
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 | This haunted isle: The ghosts and legends of Britain's historic buildings by Peter Underwood
Buy used from: $3.30 Peter Underwood, President of the Ghost Club has published this paranormal tour guide to the haunted historic buildings of Great Britain. Arranged alphabetically, starting with Abbey House, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, and ending with Woburn Abbey, Woburn, Bedfordshire.
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 | Nightmare House by Douglas Clegg
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.75 Clegg sets this story in New England and he's a darn good writer, but he clutters up a chilling ghost story with ancient Egyptian artifacts, Lovecraftian villagers, and a local constable right out of Gilbert and Sullivan. Still worth reading.
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| Shapeshifter by Laurence Staig
Buy used from: $26.39 If your little girl has an unseen playmate named Mr. Damp, you can be pretty certain there will be trouble--especially if you live in a crumbling gothic mansion that is just a hop, skip, and jump across a graveyard to an abandoned church. As a special bonus, the author wrote this novel as a tribute to M.R. James
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