That chill you feel down your spine may be more than just the cold autumn breeze. You never know what could be lurking around the corner this time of year. Ghosts and ghouls run amuck, but hopefully they are no more harmful than Casper. For those who want to become besties with a ghost, love a haunted house horror story, or are looking for their next spooky read, it is the perfect time to break out our favorite ghost stories.
An Enchanting Case of Spirits by Melissa Holtz
Alyssa is begrudgingly pulled from her house by her best friends to celebrate her 40th birthday, but with her husband’s passing, she does not feel like celebrating. After one too many cocktails, Alyssa wakes up the next morning with a ghost perched at the end of her bed. With the help of her handsome neighbor, Detective Nick West, she will figure out where this ghost came from, why it is following her, and what it has to do with her husband’s death.
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The Drowning House by Cherie Priest
One day, on a small, cold island in the Pacific Northwest, a house washes ashore, and only one woman knows why. Meanwhile, her grandson, Simon, goes missing, and it is up to his two childhood best friends to figure out what happened. In their desperate search they come up empty, causing a rift. Now, decades have passed, and the mystery remains unsolved, so they decide to put their differences aside to finally find Simon and find out the sinister truth about the house that came ashore.
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Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places by Claire Kann
In a desperate attempt to get her life back on track after getting rejected from grad school twice, the misunderstood parapsychologist Lucky Hart gets a job on a film set at the infamous, and probably haunted, Hennessee House, where she meets Maverick Phillips, and the chemistry is instant. Everyone on set notices their connection, including the house who will stop at nothing to stay in the spotlight.
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Ghost Camera by Darcy Coates
Jenine didn’t even have a second thought when she picked up the abandoned camera and snapped a photo, that is until she looked at it and saw a strange figure in the background creeping closer and closer to her. With the help of her friend Bree, they find out that the camera can capture images of the dead, putting them in danger of an ever-encroaching threat that draws nearer with every flash of the camera.
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Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLuca
To escape her old life, Cassie moves to a small cottage in a Florida town that is a hotspot for ghost tourism. While there, she notices a strange feeling in her house, none of the outlets charge her laptop, and the magnets on the fridge start to move on their own. Confused, she reaches out to the grumpy coffee shop owner, Nick, who shows her around the haunted town and tells her all about its history. Aside from the possibility of ghosts in her house, she has grown incredibly attached to the town and the people who make it so special.
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The Haunting of Moscow House by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
This historical horror novel is set in 1921 when the Goliteva sisters’ home is taken by the Bolsheviks, leaving it to fall into a state of disrepair. The girls decide to join the American Relief Administration where they can get food and necessities to people and help them recover from the war. But when the Russian soldiers living in the house are found dead, everyone is suspicious of the sister and their family. In a pursuit to clear their names, the sisters find out secrets about the house and their family that may point to a death from supernatural causes.
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Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain
In this supernatural thriller set in a small town in Lousisana, Grey knows her best friend Elora’s disappearance was more than strange. In a town full of fortune tellers and psychics, no one seems to know what happened to Elora, so it is up to Grey to solve the mystery. She knows everyone in the town must be hiding something from her, including her mother, whose spirit calls out to her from beyond the grave.
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The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Florence is a ghostwriter for one of the most well-known romance novelists ever. The catch? After her last disastrous relationship, she no longer believes in love. This may be why it has been so hard for her to finish her assignments and get them to her annoyingly attractive boss, and on top of that, she must go back home to her small town for her father’s funeral. Even surrounded by family and love, she can’t help but feel like something is wrong. When she leaves, she sees her boss standing in the doorway as a ghost. Neither of them knows how he got there or why, but he appears to have some unfinished business with Florence he needs to handle before he can pass on.
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Hollowed by Jessica S. Taylor
This is a twist on the classic ghost story of the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hallow. Every year, a sacrifice must be made to The Dullahan, The Headless Horseman, so he will not wreak havoc on the town. Katrina never thought she would be sacrificed as the daughter of one of the most prominent families in the town. In her attempt to escape, she meets the Headless Horseman who tells her the truth about the real horrors of the place she lives. Torn between who to trust and where to run, Katrina ultimately must return home with the Headless Horseman to conquer the evil that lurks.
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My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
Roos has had a ghostly companion Ruth her whole life, so the macabre never really bothered her, but it made her an outcast. One day she meets Agnes, a young widow who is also drawn to the darker things in life. Agnes pulls Roos into her world, starting with her dilapidated estate where an ill woman haunts the halls. The two can feel a strange energy from the house, as well as a strange energy between them, until someone is murdered, and Roos is the main suspect. Fighting with her quickly failing sanity, she will have to prove her own innocence and find the culprit before she loses her mind in the estate.
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The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
In the wake of tragedy, after losing her home and her father in the Mexican War of Independence, Beatriz hastily accepts a proposal from Don Rodolfo Solorzano so she can once again have a feeling of family and a home. Once she starts to settle into her new life, she begins to notice odd things at Rodolfo’s hacienda, like strange voices and visions she only sees at night, the cook bringing incense and making strange markings on the door, and her sister in law’s refusal to stay at the house at night. Beatriz starts to feel like she is being watched everywhere she goes and she knows for sure something is wrong with the hacienda, what she does not know is what happened to Rodolfo’s first wife who died under suspicious circumstances. Is it up to her and a young priest to save her and the hacienda from the evil that lives in it?
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When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen
All Mira wanted to do was leave behind her small southern town and all the terrible memories with it. But when her childhood best friend Celine, one of the few white people in town, is getting married, she returns in hopes of healing wounds of the past, especially with Jesse, a boy she loved who almost went to jail for a murder he did not commit. Now back in town, Mira attends the wedding held at a plantation, turned resort that mockingly tries to cover up its oppressive and racist history. Rumor has it the plantation is haunted by the ghosts of slaves, set on bringing vengeance to the decedents of the plantation owners. As the wedding is underway, Mira, Celine, and Jesse must face their past and the past of their families to save themselves from the curse that is headed their way.
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A House is a Body by Shruti Swamy
This compilation of stories is incredibly sharp and insightful perspective on our fears, desires, and lives. While there may not be any ghostly characters, these stories are sure to leave you feeling haunted with the supernatural elements of each story. They are gripping in their own way; a mother is paralyzed by fear as a wildfire moves closer and closer to her home, a couple discovers the wife’s secret desires after her husband has a professional crisis, and a young painter in San Francisco falls in love with one of India’s biggest celebrities, but this puts a strain on egos and secrets.
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The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
As a daughter of a well respected Chinese family in Malaysia, Li Lan’s family urges her to become a ghost bride for the wealthy Lim family after her father lost his fortune. As a ghost bride, she will be set and taken care of for the rest of her life, but she must marry the Lim’s son who recently passed away under mysterious circumstances. The marriage is designed to help settle his spirit but comes with a terrible price for Lin Lan. She is further drawn into the ghostly Chinese afterlife where she must uncover the truth about her ghost husband’s death and the truth about her family.
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White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Generations of Silver women have been known for their closeness, odd behaviors, and strange house they try to keep closed off from the rest of the world. When Lily Silver, Miranda Silver’s mother, passes away on a road trip, Miranda begins a downward spiral with no help from her father or twin brother, who are too busy running the bed and breakfast they opened in their house. She starts hearing voices in her head that could be her loosing her mind to grief or starvation. One day, she brings a friend over to the house and the hostility of the house physically manifests and changes the lives of everyone living inside it.
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