Ghost novels and novellas

5 books

The Canterville GhostOscar Wilde · 1887An 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.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Ghost GirlH. De Vere Stacpoole · 1921This1921 novel follows fifteen-year-old Phylice Berknowles, an orphaned Irish girl left alone at the family estate after her father dies suddenly in America. Her future is thrown into question when an American relative arrives bringing the will and claiming a say in her fate.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Thing from the LakeEleanor M. Ingram · 1921A 1921 novel by Eleanor M. Ingram in which a New York man buys a neglected Connecticut farm beside a swampy lake, only to spend his first night there awakening to find himself holding a mysterious braid of a woman's hair, while a strange presence haunts the property.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Turn of the ScrewHenry James · 1898A classic 1898 gothic novella framed as a ghost story told round a fireside on Christmas Eve, in which a woman's manuscript recounts her experiences as governess to two children who may be haunted by apparitions.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering EndHenry James · 1898An 1898 collection of two Henry James novellas. "The Turn of the Screw" is a ghost story told by a former governess about eerie apparitions threatening the children in her care, and "Covering End" completes the volume.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية