 | The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Allende incorporates some actual spirits into her beautifully told Chilean family saga.
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 | Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.98 I read this a couple of times as a child, and still think it one of the scarier ghost stories I've ever encountered!
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 | Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $3.19 Perhaps not technically a ghost story, but the "spirit" of Rebecca most certainly haunts the poor protagonists of this atmospheric and sinister classic.
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 | The Ghost Downstairs by Molly Ringle
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.98 A brand new one! A haunted Seattle retirement home, which used to be a sorority, holds ghosts, love, and serious danger for the young nurse who moves in.
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 | The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches) by Anne Rice
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Anne Rice's rambling and scary story of a family of witches includes a remarkable house ghost or two. Followed up by the book 'Lasher,' featuring one of those ghosts.
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 | The Ghost Next Door by Wylly Folk St. John
Buy used from: $32.10 Another treasure from my youth. I never quite forgot this spooky playmate of a young girl.
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| Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery by Alfred Hitchcock
Buy used from: $0.01 Hitchcock knows his stuff when it comes to the sinister! Can't go wrong with his hand-picked collection of short stories by many great writers.
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 | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by Josephine leslie
Buy used from: $16.00 An oft-cited classic in the "ghost romance" genre. Better known as the film, but still a favorite as a book too!
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 | A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.43 More than one person has recommended this story to me. Sounds lyrically lovely and creative.
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 | The Clock Tower Ghost (Faber children's classics) by Gene Kemp
Buy used from: $0.99 A childhood favorite for at least one of my friends--perhaps a good choice for elementary-school kids.
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 | Hotel World by Ali Smith
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Always a good sign!
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 | Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.09 Not so much scary as comical, perhaps...but contains ghosts, nonetheless.
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 | Dead Het Boys by Mark Roeder
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $8.55 Roeder's Gay Youth Chronicles evidently include a few with ghosts, such as this one. Supernatural elements are all the rage in YA these days!
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 | Smoke and Shadows (The Smoke Trilogy, Book 1) by Tanya Huff
Buy used from: $4.64 Tanya Huff's supernatural trilogy also features some ghosts, especially, I hear, in the second book, 'Smoke and Mirrors.'
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 | The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics) by Shirley Jackson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.99 This book terrified me. And you don't even *see* much in the way of the paranormal. It's what you *don't* see that's so scary.
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 | The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 In this and 'Ghosts I Have Been,' Richard Peck mixes humor and suspense for young readers (and older ones too).
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| Gus Was a Friendly Ghost by Jane Thayer
Buy used from: $3.97 A sweet illustrated children's book. Probably about as scary as Casper. :)
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 | The Shining by Stephen King
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $2.48 Do not read Stephen King after dark. Especially 'The Shining.' You may never look at old hotels again with the same benevolence you once did.
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 | Fantasy Lover (Dark-Hunter, Book 1) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.71 Kenyon's Dark Hunter series brings forth spirits in many forms to have sizzling adventures with modern heroines. Can't go wrong there...
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| Discontented Ghost: 2 (Unicorn Book) by Corbett
Buy used from: $0.01 Retells Oscar Wilde's amusing "The Canterville Ghost," from the ghost's point of view.
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 | Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.01 A book for ages 10 and up, involving a ghost connected with a dollhouse. Creepy!
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| The Ghosts of Departure Point by Eve Bunting
Buy used from: $42.13 One of those great teen romance novels from the 1980s, which lived on in both my mind and my sister's. A ghostly teen, the victim of a car crash, lingers on to prevent other deaths...and find a second chance at life.
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 | The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $4.50 Whether Sleepy Hollow actually contains any ghosts is up for debate. But you have to include this tale on any good ghost story list!
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 | The Ghost in the Third Row (Ghost in the ...) by Bruce Coville
Buy used from: $0.01 Bruce Coville's written a whole passel of ghostly books for kids (and older readers), including this one, about a sixth-grader who sees the ghost of an actress.
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 | House of Many Shadows by Barbara Michaels
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.80 Barbara Michaels can always be counted on for skillfully weaving the supernatural into mysteries. Check out this one, as well as 'Annie Come Home' and 'Vanish With the Rose.'
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 | The Grub-And-Stakers House a Haunt by Alisa Craig
Buy used from: $0.01 A lighthearted "cozy" mystery featuring a haunted house.
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 | The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $7.98 Described as disturbing and classically spooky in the manner of 'The Haunting of Hill House.' Good Halloween choice!
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 | Nocturnes by John Connolly
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $0.12 A collection of Connolly's short stories and novellas, exploring many a dark place...
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 | The Last Time They Met: A Novel by Anita Shreve
Buy used from: $0.01 I'm told it's poignant, lovely, and ultimately surprising--a story of a long-time but frustrated love.
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 | The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.90 Whether it's "true" or not, this story of a mean, nasty house in Amityville has become world-famous.
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 | A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $5.48 No ghost list can omit Marley and the three ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future who come to turn Scrooge's life around. Perhaps the best known ghosts in the literary world!
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