The Canterville Ghost

An 1887 comic ghost story by Oscar Wilde, in which an American minister's skeptical family moves into a haunted English manor and torments its centuries-old resident ghost, Sir Simon, with their practical modern ways.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic horror and the Gothic›Ghost stories and hauntings›Ghost novels and novellas

Reader

Teens›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic horror and the Gothic