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- Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffeneggerstandalone novel2009
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Her Fearful Symmetry is a horror novel by the American writer Audrey Niffenegger. The book was published on October 1, 2009 and is set in and around London's Highgate Cemetery where, after a year of research for the book, Niffenegger acted as a tour guide.
- The Secret of Crickley Hall
James Herbertstandalone novel2006
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The Secret of Crickley Hall is a 2006 supernatural thriller novel by the British writer James Herbert.
- David Ash
series3 books1988
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David Ash is a professional skeptic, a paranormal investigator who makes his living debunking hauntings until a case in an old English house convinces him something genuinely malicious is at work. James Herbert's Haunted, which began life as a BBC screenplay, launches Ash into a trilogy that continues through The Ghosts of Sleath and Ash, each pitting his hard-won doubt against increasingly undeniable horrors. The character's skepticism is the series' throughline, making each haunting a test of what he's willing to believe.
- Breathe
Cliff McNishstandalone novel2006
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Breathe: A Ghost Story is a novel by English author Cliff McNish published in 2006 as McNish's first stand-alone novel. It is about a group of ghost children trapped inside an old farmhouse by a malignant spirit known as the Ghost Mother. Twelve-year-old Jack, suffering from chronic asthma, has just moved into the old house with his widowed mother, and discovers that the Ghost Mother wants him to herself.
- White Is for Witching
Helen Oyeyemistandalone novel2009
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White Is for Witching is a 2009 novel by British author Helen Oyeyemi. The novel, Oyeyemi's third, won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award. Combining elements of ghost, vampire, and haunted house stories, White Is for Witching concerns a twin named Miranda and her relationship with the sentient, xenophobic house she inhabits. A French translation was published as Le Blanc va aux sorcières in 2011.
- The Shadow Guests
Joan Aikenstandalone novel1980
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Publisher's description: "A young boy arrives at his cousin's home in England unprepared for the supernatural furor his presence unleashes."
- Naomi's Room
Jonathan Aycliffestandalone novel1991
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Naomi's Room is a 1991 horror novel by Northern Irish author Jonathan Aycliffe.
- The Resurrectionists
Kim Wilkinsstandalone novel2000
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The Resurrectionists is a 2000 horror novel by Kim Wilkins. It is the story of Maisie Fielding who, bored with her job and family, returns to England to research her grandmother, who is a "white witch".
- The Hunting Ground
Cliff McNishstandalone novel2011
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When Elliott and his brother, Ben, move into the old and crumbling Glebe House they don't expect to find themselves sharing it with ghosts. But soon sinister events are unfolding. An old diary reveals glimpses of the mansion's past - and of a terrible tragedy. A mysterious woman talks to the dead. And evil lurks in the East Wing - a hideous labyrinth of passageways devised by a truly twisted mind. Can Elliott and his family escape the clutches of Glebe House? Or will they be trapped in the maze of corridors, forever hunted by the dead?
- The Man in the Picture
Susan Hillstandalone novel2007
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The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story, is a novel by English author Susan Hill, first published in 2007 by Profile Books. It has been featured as BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime.
- The Small Hand
Susan Hillstandalone novel2010
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The Small Hand: A Ghost Story is a novel by English author Susan Hill, first published in 2010 by Profile Books. A television film adaptation, Susan Hill's Ghost Story, was broadcast by Channel 5 in December 2019.
- Apartment 16
Adam Nevillstandalone novel2010
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Apartment 16 is a 2010 horror novel by British author Adam Nevill. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2010. Apartment 16 took four and a half years for Nevill to complete, during which time he wrote seventeen drafts. Film rights to Apartment 16 were under option by Blind Monkey Pictures, the horror movie portion of Festival Film & TV, but have since lapsed.
- The Uncanny
Andrew Klavanstandalone novel1998
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A successful Hollywood screenwriter who bases his movies on classic English ghost stories finds himself in the midst of one when he travels to England and meets a mysterious damsel in distress and a seemingly immortal villain.
- The Watch House
Robert Westallstandalone novel1977
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The Watch House is a 1977 fiction book by Robert Westall. The main story is about a teenager called Anne, who is left to spend the summer with her mother's old nanny. While there she explores the watch house, writes a guidebook for the watch house and is haunted by a ghost. It is split up into three parts.
- Lockwood & Co.
series6 books2013
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Lockwood & Co. is a young adult supernatural thriller series by Jonathan Stroud. It follows three young operatives of a psychic detection agency as they fight ghosts in London, England.
- Moon
James Herbertstandalone novel1985
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Jon Childes is considered with suspicion by the inhabitants of the island he moved to. Yet, he has a respectable job in the local school; he misses the daughter, remained with the mother, but he feels free from the past nightmares... Suddenly everything restarts: visions, at first blurred and then clear. Sequences of atrocity and blood go through his mind as he sees the "slaughtering thing" in action, and cannot prevent it. [translated from back cover]
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaimanstandalone novel2013
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A seven year old farm boy becomes friends with an eleven year old neighbor girl, who he discovers is ancient and powerful and intervenes when a nonhuman entity attempts to make a home in earthly reality.
- The Carrow Haunt
Darcy Coatesstandalone novel2018
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"The dead are restless here... Remy is a tour guide for Carrow House, a notoriously haunted building. When she's asked to host seven guests for a week-long stay to research Carrow's phenomena, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous. At first, it's everything they hoped for. Then a storm moves in, cutting off their contact with the outside world, and things quickly become twisted. Doors open on their own. Séances go disastrously wrong. Red liquid seeps from behind the wallpaper. Their spirit medium wanders through the house during the night, seemingly in a trance. Then one of the guests dies under strange circumstances, and Remy is forced to consider the possibility that the ghost of the house's original owner, a twisted serial killer, still walks the halls. But by then it's too late to escape." — quoted from this book's product page on Amazon as of 2018-03-29.
- The House at Phantom Park
Graham Mastertonstandalone novel2022
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- The Godsend
Bernard Taylorstandalone novel1976
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The Godsend is a horror novel by British writer Bernard Taylor. It is his debut novel and was first published in 1976 by Souvenir Press.
- Carnacki
universe102 books1909
Start hereCarnacki, the Ghost-Finder · Start here
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The card arrives without preamble: dinner at 472 Cheyne Walk, and afterward the tale. Thomas Carnacki explains nothing until his four friends are fed and settled by the fire — then, pipe lit, he recounts the thing he has just come back from, and at the last word turns them out into the Embankment dark with a curt "Out you go!" This is the world of the Ghost-Finder: an Edwardian London where a haunting is a case to be worked, and the man who works it trusts neither the credulous nor the smug. William Hope Hodgson raised Carnacki in a slim sheaf of stories — "The Gateway of the Monster," "The Whistling Room," "The Horse of the Invisible" and their fellows, gathered in 1913 and rounded out to nine. Each is a siege: Carnacki barricades himself inside a defended circle, half medieval and half modern — chalk, garlic, water-drawn pentacles and the glass tubes of his own Electric Pentacle humming against the dark — and consults the crumbling Sigsand Manuscript for a rite that may or may not hold. A century on, other hands keep the Chelsea rooms lit: William Meikle, the team of Chico Kidd and Rick Kennett, and editors such as John Linwood Grant, Robert M. Price and Sam Gafford send him after horrors Hodgson never named. What sets the cases apart is Carnacki's refusal to decide in advance. A whistling room may prove a swindle with a trick of plumbing behind it, or a genuine intrusion of the "ab-natural" pressing at the pentacle till the light fails — and until the last page neither he nor you can say which. Begin at the source: read Hodgson's 1913 collection in its own order, "The Gateway of the Monster" first. The later homages are a loose fraternity with no fixed sequence; take them up afterward, as the dark permits.
