Books like Ghostly encounters
Loved Ghostly encounters by Jeff Bahr? Here are 5 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Ghostly encounters →5 books
- 1The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley JacksonA novel of a haunted house and the people who stay in it, built on unease rather than gore.
- 2The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw
Henry JamesA short novel about a governess who believes ghosts are haunting the children in her care, and whose account stays open to doubt.
- 3Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Montague Rhodes JamesA collection of scholarly narrators who stumble onto old, malevolent presences in English churches and country houses.
- 4The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black
Susan HillA novel about a young solicitor sent to a remote house to settle an old estate, where a silent presence seems to watch the village.
- 5Dark Matter
Dark Matter
Michelle PaverA novel about a man who, during a winter expedition, begins to feel that something is watching him in the Arctic.
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