For those who don’t think the world is scary enough as it is, here’s a selection of our favourite spine-chilling ghost stories. If you want to freak out your children too, we have some for them as well…Enjoy!

The Classic…

• The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (36 pages)
• The Facts in The Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe (24 pages)
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (393 pages)
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (672 pages)
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (128 pages)
• The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde (140 pages)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (488 pages)
• Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell (9 stories – 416 pages)
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (464 pages)
• The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (126 pages)
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (121 pages)

Contemporary…

• The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (388 pages)
• The Living and the Dead in Winsford by Håkan Nesser (320 pages)
• The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (138 pages)
• Affinity by Sarah Waters (352 pages)
• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale (360 pages)

Children’s…

• Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson, 32 pages. (Age 3+)
• Clockwork by Philip Pullman, 96 pages. (Age 8-12)
• A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (multiple books) (Age 8-14)
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, 304 pages. (Age 9-11)
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman, 208 pages. (Age 10+)
• The Witches by Roald Dahl, 208 pages (Age 10+)

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