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October 1998
Compiled by Mary Rindfleisch of Ridgefield Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)

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Aycliffe, Jonathan no titles given

Adams, Richard The Girl in the Swing

Aickman, Robert various short stories

Aiken, Joan The Haunting of Lamb House

Alcott, Louisa May The Abbot's Ghost in "Behind the Mask"

Allende, Isabel House of the Spirits

Amis, Kingsley The Green Man

Ansa, Tina Baby of the Family The Hand I Fan With

Anthony, Piers Shade of the Tree

Ashe, Rosalind Moths

Atherton, Nancy Aunt Dimity mystery series

Austen, Jane Northanger Abbey

Beagle, Peter S. A Fine and Private Place

Bellairs, John various YA titles

Benchley, Nathaniel The Visitors

Benson, E.F. various short stories

Berg, Elizabeth Range of Motion

Betts, Doris The Sharp Teeth of Love

Bierce, Ambrose various short stories

Black, Veronica My Name Is Polly Winters

Blackstock, Charity A House Possessed

Blackwood, Algernon various short stories

Blaylock, James P. Night Relics

Bowen, Elizabeth The Demon Lover & other stories

Boyle, Josephine Holy Terror

Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre

Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights

Broughton, Rhoda no titles given

Brown, Carrie Rose's Garden

Byatt, A.S. The Conjugial Angel in "Angels and Insects"

Cadell, Elizabeth Brimstone in the Garden

Campbell, Ramsey (short stories less gruesome than novels)

Card, Orson Scott Homebody Treasure Box

Charnas, Suzy McKee Dorothea Dreams

Clare, Keith The Otherwise Girl

Cole, Manning Brief Candles other titles

Davies, Robertson Murther and Walking Spirits High Spirits

Dawson, Carol The Waking Spell

De La Mare, Walter The Wind Blowes Over

Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol other short stories

Dinesen, Isak Seven Gothic Tales

Doyle, Arthur Conan various short stories

DuMaurier, Daphne Echoes from the Macabre (short stories)

Duncan, Lois various YA titles

Galford, Ellen The Dyke and the Dybbuk

Gallico, Paul Too Many Ghosts

Gilman, Charlotte The Yellow Wallpaper

Girardi, Robert Madeleine's Ghost Vaporetto 13

Hartley, L.P. various short stories

Hawkes, Judith Julian's House

Hawthorne, Nathaniel various short stories

Heise, Kenan Resurrection Mary

Herbert, James The Magic Cottage

Hill, Susan Woman in Black

Hodgson, Barbara The Tattoed Map

Hoffman, Alice Turtle Moon Practical Magic

Jackson, Shirley The Haunting of Hill House

James, Henry The Turn of the Screw various short stories

James, M.R. various short stories

Kinsella, W.P. Field of Dreams

Klavans, Andrew The Uncanny

LeFanu, J. Sheridan various short stories

Leiber, Fritz various short stories

Leithauser, Brad Seaward

Leslie, J.A.C. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Ligotti, Thomas no titles given

Lofts, Norah Hauntings Is There Anybody There? Gad's Hall The Haunting of Gad's Hall

Lovecraft, H.P. various stories

Luke, Mary The Nonesuch Love

Lurie, Alison Women & Ghosts (stories)

Marius, Richard C. After the War

McCullough, Colleen Ladies of Missalonghi

McFarland, Dennis A Face at the Window

McGrath, Patrick The Grotesque

Michaels, Barbara earlier work, including Ammie Come Home House of Many Shadows Witch Crying Child Here I Stay

Monahan, Brent (editor) The Bell Witch

Morrison, Toni Beloved

Peters, Elizabeth Devil-May-Care

Poe, Edgar Allen Fall of the House of Usher & others

Powers, Tim Expiration Date

Rice, Anne Violin

Riddell, Mrs. no titles given

Russell, Kirk The Princess of All Lands Watchers st the Strait Gate

Skibell, Joseph A Blessing on the Moon

Smith, Thorne Topper

Stewart, Mary Rose Cottage Touch Not the Cat Thornyhold

Straub, Peter Julia Ghost Story

Tan, Amy The Hundred Secret Senses

Thane, Elswyth Tryst

Thayer, Nancy Spirit Lost

Thrasher, L.L. Charlie's Bones

Todd, Charles Wings of Fire

Wakefield, H. Russell no titles given

Walker, Alice By the Light of My Father's Smile

Wharton, Edith various short stories

Wilde, Oscar The Canterville Ghost Picture of Dorian Gray

Wood, Bari The Basement

Woods, Stuart Under the Lake

Plus many, many short story anthologies, notably the Norton and Oxford Books of Ghost Stories for the less gory variety.

 
 
      
   
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