GHOST
Literature with ghosts, hauntings, and similar spectral phenomenon
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'Bring Me a Light!', Mary Hooper (1861, printed in Once A Week, illustrated)
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'Pallinghurst Barrow', Grant Allen (1892, printed in the Illustrated London News - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive)
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'The Dead and the Countess', Gertrude Atherton (1902)
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'The Ghost Club: An Unfortunate Episode in the Life of no. 5010', John Kendrick Bangs (1894, printed in The Water Ghost and Others, illustrated)
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'The Death of Halpin Frayser', Ambrose Bierce (1891, printed in The Wave, illustrated)
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'The Middle Toe of the Right Foot', Ambrose Bierce (1891 printed in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians)
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'The Cold Embrace', Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1861, printed in The Welcome Guest)
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'Eveline's Visitant', Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1867, printed in Belgravia)
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'My Wife's Promise', Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1868, printed in Belgravia, illustrated)
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Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (1847, published in 2 instalments under the pseudonym Ellis Bell)​​
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'The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth', Rhoda Broughton (1873, printed in Tales for Christmas Eve)
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'The Baron's Coffin', Ada Buisson (1869, printed in Belgravia, illustrated)
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'The Ghost’s Summons', Ada Buisson (1868, printed in Belgravia)
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'Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk', Frank Cowper (1889, printed in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)
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'The Doll's Ghost', F. Marion Crawford (1896)
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(1896, printed in The Illustrated London News Christmas Supplement)​
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(1911, printed in Wandering Ghosts)
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'The Screaming Skull', F. Marion Crawford (1908)​
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(1908 original publication source TBC)​
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(1911, printed in Wandering Ghosts)
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'Number Ninety', B. M. Croker (1895, printed in Chapman's Magazine of Fiction)
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'A Sworn Statement', Emma Frances Dawson (1881)
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(1881, printed in The Wasp)​
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(1897, printed in An Itinerant House and Other Stories)
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'Are the Dead Dead?', Emma Frances Dawson (1897, printed in An Itinerant House and Other Stories) ​​
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'A Christmas Carol', Charles Dickens (1843, illustrated)
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'The Signalman', Charles Dickens (1866, printed in All the Year Round)
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'The Trial for Murder' [originally published as 'To be Taken with a Grain of Salt'] (1865)
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(1865, published under the original title, printed in Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions)​
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(1866, printed in Three Ghost Stories)
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'Mr. Justice Hardbottle', Sheridan Le Fanu (1872, printed in In a Glass Darkly, vol. 1)
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'The Vicar's Ghost', Lucy Farmer (printed in Burnley Express and Clitheroe Division Advertiser; part 1, part 2)
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'The Lost Ghost', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated)
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'The Shadows on the Wall', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated)
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'The Southwest Chamber', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated)
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'The Vacant Lot', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated)
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'The Wind in the Rose-bush', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated)
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'Curious, If True​', Elizabeth Gaskell (1860)
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'The Old Nurse's Story', Elizabeth Gaskell (1852, printed in Household Words Christmas edition)
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'The Giant Wisteria', Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1891, printed in The New England Magazine, illustrated)
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'19, Great Hanover Street', Lillie Harris (1889, printed in Sheffield Weekly Telegraph - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive)
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'Bring Me a Light!', Mary Hooper (1861, printed in Once A Week, illustrated)
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'The Memoir', Violet Hunt (1911, printed in Tales of the Uneasy)
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'The Operation', Violet Hunt (1911, printed in Tales of the Uneasy)
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'The Telegram', Violet Hunt (1911, printed in Tales of the Uneasy)
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'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', Washington Irving (1820)
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'The Ghostly Rental', Henry James (1876, printed in Scribner's Monthly)
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'The Romance of Certain Old Clothes', Henry James (1868)
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'Sir Edmund Orme', Henry James (1892, printed in The Lesson of the Master)
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The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (1898, printed in The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End)
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'The Tractate Middoth', M. R. James (1911, printed in More Ghost Stories)
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'Amor Dure', Vernon Lee (1890, printed in Hauntings: Fantastic Stories)
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'Oke of Okehurst; or, the Phantom Lover​', Vernon Lee (1890, printed in Hauntings: Fantastic Stories)
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'A Wicked Voice', Vernon Lee (1890, printed in Hauntings: Fantastic Stories)
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'The Spectral Hand'/'Le Main Gantée', Jean Lorrain (1895)
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Original text in French by Jean Lorrain (1895, printed in Nightmares of an Ether Drinker/Sensations et Souvenirs)​
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'The Ghost of Charlotte Cray', Florence Marryat (1883)
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'The Horla', Guy de Maupassant (1886)
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'Lady Farquhar's Old Lady', Mary Louisa Molesworth
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'Hurst of Hurstcote', E. Nesbit (1893, printed in Temple Bar Magazine)
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'Portent of the Shadow', E. Nesbit (1905, printed in The Index, illustrated)
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'The Lady's Walk', Margaret Oliphant (1882, printed in Longman's Magazine; part 1, part 2)
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'The Open Door', Margaret Oliphant
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'The Black Cat', Edgar Allan Poe (1843, printed in United States Saturday Post)
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'Eleonora', Edgar Allan Poe (1842)
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'The Raven', Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
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'The Tell-Tale Heart', Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
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'A Strange Christmas Game', Charlotte Riddell
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'Nut Bush Farm', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
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'The Old House in Vauxhall Walk', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
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'Old Mrs. Jones', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
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'The Open Door', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
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'Sandy the Tinker', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
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'Walnut-Tree House', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
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'The Tapestried Chamber: or the Lady in the Sacque', Sir Walter Scott (1829, printed in The Keepsake)
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'Crooken Sands', Bram Stoker (1894)
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'A Dream of Red Hands', Bram Stoker (1894)
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'The Judge's House', Bram Stoker (1891)
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'The Secret of Growing Gold', Bram Stoker (1892)
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'To Let', Alice Turner Curtis (1896, printed in Black Cat Magazine)
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'The Wicked Editor's Christmas Dream', Alice Mary Vince (1893, printed in Tamworth Herald - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive)
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'The Red Room', H. G. Wells (1896, printed in The Idler)
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'The Canterville Ghost', Oscar Wilde (1887)
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(1887, printed in The Court and Society Review)​
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(1891, printed in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories)
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'A Mysterious Visitor', Ellen Wood (1857, printed in Bentley's Miscellany)
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