The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (Mammoth Books)
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Jackson, Shirley The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
Acclaimed as the most famous haunted house story in literature, it recounts how a psychic researcher invites a group of people to help solve the mystery which seems to lie in the character of the original builder of Hill House.
James, Henry The Turn of The Screw (1898)
Another of the great landmarks of supernatural fiction – allegedly based on a true story told to the author – about a pair of dead, evil servants who return to haunt a house and gain control over the two small children living there.
King, Stephen The Shining (1977)
Author Jack Torrance agrees to look after an old hotel while it is shut up and snowed in for the winter. Soon he and his wife and small son are experiencing strange sights, sounds and inexplicable occurrences as the building takes on a life of its own.
Lindsay, David The Haunted Woman (1922)
Runhill Court is built over the site of an ancient Saxon building and is the focus of supernatural forces which provide the occupants with vivid pictures of the past, as well as putting them in danger of their lives.
Lovecraft, H. P. The Shunned House (1928)
Classic novel of an old house on Rhode Island which destroys the sanity and health of all those who live in it until its terrible secret is revealed.
Lytle, Andrew A Name for Evil (1947)
A run-down rural plantation in the American south is haunted by the ghost of a tyrannical former owner, who returns to prey on his descendants and tries to abduct the wife of one of them.
McGrath, Patrick Asylum (1996)
Set in a top-security mental hospital, this is the story of Stella Raphael, the beautiful wife of the new deputy superintendent, who sets out to possess Edgar Stark, an artist, sculptor and the perpetrator of an unspeakably brutal crime.
Macardle, Dorothy Uneasy Freehold (1941) [USA: The Uninvited]
Famous novel of a young playwright and his sister, who take over a remote house near Bristol where two women died in mysterious circumstances and return to haunt the new occupiers.
Malet, Lucas The Tall Villa (1919)
Romantic story by a member of the Henry James circle about a lonely woman in a villa haunted by the ghost of a nobleman who protects her from an unscrupulous seducer.
Marsh, Richard Tom Ossington’s Ghost (1898)
A young teacher who rents a cottage discovers it is haunted by a restless ghost, but he returns her kindness by showing her the way to a lost fortune.
Matheson, Richard Hell House (1971)
The house has terrible supernatural powers that have defied the investigations of a number of psychic researchers. When a new team arrives to find the source of the phenomena, they are soon confronting the terror that slaughtered their predecessors.
Mills, Weymer Jay The Ghosts of Their Ancestors (1906)
Set in an old New York mansion, the ghost of the owner’s great-grandmother returns to put a wayward daughter in her place with unexpected results.
Nicolson, John Urban Fingers of Fear (1937)
While studying the influence of Elizabethan literature on the American colonies, a professor visits an ancient haunted mansion in Berkshire full of unimaginable horrors and there meets a terrible fate.
Norton, Frank The Malachite Cross (1894)
Occult thriller about a spectacularly haunted house in New York and a curious religious cross, which holds the key to solving the supernatural events.
Pargeter, Edith The City Lies Four-Square (1939)
Gothic novel by the mystery writer better-known as Ellis Peters about a young doctor living in a fine house in the middle of a slum and the interventions of a ghostly victim of a riding accident.
Peck, Richard The Ghost Belonged To Me (1997)
The Armsworth family have pretensions to be among the social elite in a small Illinois town. Alexander, the son, is uneasy about this situation, but things begin to change when he discovers the ghost of a young Creole girl from the Civil War era haunting the barn.
Peeke, Margaret Born of Flame (1892)
The house at Lone Lake is haunted by the ghost of a woman of great paranormal powers as well as her possessions just as she left them – together providing clues about the ancient inhabitants of America.
Priestley, J.B Night Sequence (1932)
A quarrelling husband and wife lose their way while on a night drive and are forced to seek shelter in an old, decaying house inhabited by a weird family and their servants. Filmed as The Old Dark House starring Boris Karloff.
Reid, Forrest Pender Among the Residents (1922)
A man recovering from illness in a haunted house in rural England solves the mystery of the tortured spirit in the living room when he discovers a cache of old letters.
Riddell, Charlotte The Haunted House at Latchford (1872)
The ghost of Crow Hall is a woman whose presence effects the health of the residents, but ultimately leads to the discovery of a skeleton and some hidden jewellery.
Riddell, Charlotte The Haunted River (1877)
When two half-sisters rent semi-decayed Mill House, they are confronted by various supernatural manifestations including the reenactment of a crime which they ultimately solve.
Riddell, Charlotte The Uninhabited House (1875)
River Hall is so badly haunted that no one will live there – until the ghost finally appears to confront its murderer and thereby lifts a terrible curse.
Rives, Amelia The Ghost Garden (1918)
The ghost of a colonial beauty who haunts a Virginia mansion, “vampirises” the suitor of a young woman living on the adjacent estate.
Sampson, Ashley The Ghost of Mr. Brown (1941)
Novel told from the point of a view of a ghost who is trying to discover why he is condemned to haunt a house by making contact with its residents – with fatal results.
Stone, Mary A Riddle of Luck (1893)
A would-be author who stays in a haunted house is invited by the ghost to tell its remarkable story and does so with great success – until the young man refuses to fulfil his part of the bargain with the spirit.
Thorndyke, Russell The Master of The Macabre (1947)
The ghost of a lewd and wicked monk who haunts an old palace is laid to rest by a visitor forced to spend a night in the old man’s cell.
Toye, Nina The Shadow of Fear (1921)
An old abbey where black magic was once practised works its evil on a couple, in particular the neurotic wife.
Wilde, Oscar The Canterville Ghost (1887)
Classic farce about an American family who take up residence in haunted Canterville Chase in Berkshire where the sympathetic young daughter helps the tormented ghost to gain release from his punishment.
Wood, Mrs. Henry The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1863)
The ghosts of two mourners carrying a coffin haunt the ancient family estate of Ashlydyat – their appearance said to herald a death in the family – until the discovery of a skeleton brings events to a dramatic climax.
Young, Francis Brett Cold Harbour (1924)
A famous surgeon and his wife holidaying in Worcestershire learn about the ill-repute of Cold Harbour House and come to suspect that its reputation for being haunted originated from an ancient evil that dates back to Roman times.