If you like … Ghost Stories

If you like funny stories about spooks and spectres …

The monsters of Morley Manor by Bruce Coville: The contents of the mysterious box were very ordinary until they added water!
The beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson: Some very unusual ghosts turn Clawstone Castle into a tourist attraction.
The ghost and the shutterbug by Duncan Ball: A contest of wills between Arnold the ghost and Tassana the photographer.
The revenge of Samuel Stokes by Penelope Lively: Mysterious smells of roast venison from the washing machine! And tobacco smoke from the TV! Is Tim’s new house haunted?
Johnny and the dead by Terry Pratchett: The council wants to bulldoze the cemetery and the dead are protesting but only Johnny can see them, and so only Johnny can help them.
There’s a dead person following my sister around by Vivian Vande Velde: It all started when Ted’s little sister Vicki began talking to an imaginary friend…

If you like collections of short stories about ghostly goings-on …

The dark-thirty by Pat McKissack: The half hour just before nightfall when shadows play tricks on your mind…
Ghost town by Joan Lowery Nixon: A collection of seven spooky stories from the ghost towns of the Wild West.
Ribbajack by Brian Jacques: What if, with enough imagination and enough hatred, you could create a monster to revenge yourself on your enemies?
Tales of mystery and madness by Edgar Allan Poe: From the master of sinister stories…
That’s ghosts for you edited by Marianne Carus: 13 scary stories including one about how some haunted bagpipes were reunited with their ghostly owner.
A touch of chill by Joan Aitken: Bizarre stories of horror, suspense and fantasy.

If you like stories that make you want to keep the light on …

Blood on snow by Tim Bowler: The terrible events of the past still haunt the future, and only a knife buried centuries ago in a hidden place can put those memories to rest.
Whispers in the graveyard by Theresa Breslin: When workmen uproot a rowan tree in the graveyard, something is disturbed that should have been left alone forever.
Coraline by Neil Gaiman: Through the secret door Coraline finds a counterfeit house, with counterfeit parents, and a terrible quest.
City of shadows by Celia Rees: Davey has never believed that he has Second Sight until now!
Room 13 by Robert Swindells: A nightmare comes true at the stroke of midnight …