Ghosts

In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost (sometimes known as a spectre (British English) or specter (American English), phantom, apparition or spook) is the soul or spirit of a dead person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living.

Vigil
A Box Full of Darkness
This House Will Feed
The Witching Hours (The Crows)
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold (Wayward Children, #11)
The Hitch
I, in the Shadows
Ballad of the Bone Road
X Marks the Haunt
Persephone's Curse
Seeing Other People
Cape Fever
The Retired Assassin's Guide to Orchid Hunting
Secrets of the First School (Edinburgh Nights #5)
Dolls Gone Wild (Ghost Cupid #3)
Hidden Pictures
Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
Remain
Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)
Forget You Saw Her (Ask for Andrea, #0)
The Seven Rings (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #3)
The Dead Romantics
A Box Full of Darkness
Middle of the Night
The Hotel Nantucket
Inheritance (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #1)
Soul Searching (Sweetwater Peak, #1)
Incidents Around the House
Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)
The Mirror (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #2)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsAnna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakeAsylum by Madeleine RouxThe Diviners by Libba BrayBad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender
Young Adult Horror: Ghosts
147 books — 192 voters
The Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldIf I Stay by Gayle FormanElsewhere by Gabrielle ZevinBefore I Fall by Lauren OliverA Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
YA Post-Death Novels
191 books — 387 voters

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuHell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph WhiteThe Luminous Dead by Caitlin  StarlingWilder Girls by Rory Power
Queer Horror
684 books — 412 voters
Ghost Tamer by Meredith R. LyonsA Haunting at Hawthorn by Gail Grant ParkThe Body in Brú na Bóinne by Gail Grant ParkWe Are Shadows by Gail Grant ParkInterview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Paranormal Picks
236 books — 165 voters

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda    WilliamsRoom on the Broom by Julia DonaldsonThe Hallo-Wiener by Dav PilkeyScary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin SchwartzThe Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree by Stan Berenstain
Best Halloween Picture Books
755 books — 593 voters
Magic Triumphs by Ilona AndrewsIron and Magic by Ilona AndrewsBurn Bright by Patricia BriggsOcean Light by Nalini SinghArchangel's Prophecy by Nalini Singh
Best New Paranormal/UF Books 2018/2019
188 books — 448 voters

Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
The Graveyard Book
The Haunting of Hill House
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1)
Shadowland (The Mediator, #1)
City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, #1)
The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1)
Girl of Nightmares (Anna, #2)
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1)
A Christmas Carol
The Name of the Star (Shades of London, #1)
The Woman in Black
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
Ninth Key (The Mediator, #2)

Neil Gaiman
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Kelley Armstrong
I let out a laugh that sounded more like the yip of a startled poodle. "Superp-powers? I wish. My powers aren't winning me a slot on the Cartoon Network anytime soon... except as a comic relief. Ghost Whisperer Junior. Or Ghost Screamer, more like it. Tune in, every week, as Chloe Saunders runs screaming from yet another ghost looking for her help." Okay, superpower might be pushing it. ...more
Kelley Armstrong, The Summoning

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