Ghost stories books are pieces of fiction that includes a ghost , like Hamlet in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Horror stories have always been an interesting medium that intends to scare, and horrify the readers. A dark house in an isolated land with no-electricity, invisible appearance of a ghost, and heavy-rain in the background, shrill cry of an owl or a black cat around, all set a perfect ghostly mood for the readers and make the story extremely interesting. It distracts the readers from the real world until it is completed. Even when it is over, it seems like something is left. As if the phantoms of the article, have come alive. It creates an eerie feeling in mind that sustains for prolonged period. Ghost stories are written for all-aged booklovers, and it equally affects them all.
Some of the most-read ghost stories
- A Brother's Funeral
- A Gentle Touch
- Late Night Apparitions
- A Vancouver Haunting
- The Deadly Apartment
Some of the early, reputed, Ghost-story books and their eminent authors include
- The Phantom coach by Amelia B. Edwards
- The upper birth by F. Marion Crawford
- The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood
- The Clock by William F. Harvey
Some of the contemporary Horror-story books
- King, Stephen's THE SHINING
- Kipling, Rudyard's THE PHANTOM RICKSHAW
- Michaels, Barbara's HOUSE OF MANY SHADOWS
- Roald Dahl's BOOK OF GHOST STORIES
- Theroux, Paul's THE BLACK HOUSE
Most scary, most read, and most-sold section of English story books are Ghost story books.
