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Literature with ghosts, hauntings, and similar spectral phenomenon

'Pallinghurst Barrow', Grant Allen (1892, printed in the Illustrated London News)
'The Dead and the Countess', Gertrude Atherton (1902)
- (1902, printed in The Smart Set)
- (1905, printed in The Bell in the Fog and other Stories)
'The Ghost Club: An Unfortunate Episode in the Life of no. 5010', John Kendrick Bangs (1894, printed in The Water Ghost and Others, illustrated)
'The Middle Toe of the Right Foot', Ambrose Bierce (1891 printed in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians)
'The Baron's Coffin', Ada Buisson (1869, printed in Belgravia, illustrated)
'The Ghost’s Summons', Ada Buisson (1868, printed in Belgravia)
'Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk', Frank Cowper (1889, printed in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)
'The Doll's Ghost', F. Marion Crawford (1896)
- (1896, printed in The Illustrated London News Christmas Supplement)
- (1911, printed in Wandering Ghosts)
'Number Ninety', B. M. Croker (1895, printed in Chapman's Magazine of Fiction)
'A Sworn Statement', Emma Frances Dawson (1881)
- (1881, printed in The Wasp)
- (1897, printed in An Itinerant House and Other Stories)
'A Christmas Carol', Charles Dickens (1843, illustrated)
'The Signalman', Charles Dickens (1866, printed in All the Year Round)
'Mr. Justice Hardbottle', Sheridan Le Fanu (1872, printed in In a Glass Darkly, vol. 1)
'The Lost Ghost', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated)
'The Shadows on the Wall', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated)
'The Southwest Chamber', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated)
'The Vacant Lot', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated)
'The Wind in the Rose-bush', Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1903, printed in The Wind in the Rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural, illustrated)
'The Old Nurse's Story', Elizabeth Gaskell (1852, printed in Household Words Christmas edition)
'The Giant Wisteria', Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1891, printed in The New England Magazine, illustrated)
'19, Great Hanover Street', Lillie Harris (1889, printed in Sheffield Weekly Telegraph - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive)
'The Memoir', Violet Hunt (1911, printed in Tales of the Uneasy)
'The Operation', Violet Hunt (1911, printed in Tales of the Uneasy)
'The Telegram', Violet Hunt (1911, printed in Tales of the Uneasy)
'The Ghostly Rental', Henry James (1876, printed in Scribner's Monthly)
'The Romance of Certain Old Clothes', Henry James (1868)
'Sir Edmund Orme', Henry James (1892, printed in The Lesson of the Master)
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (1898, printed in The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End)
'The Tractate Middoth', M. R. James (1911, printed in More Ghost Stories)
'Amor Dure', Vernon Lee (1890, printed in Hauntings: Fantastic Stories)
'Oke of Okehurst; or, the Phantom Lover', Vernon Lee (1890, printed in Hauntings: Fantastic Stories)
'A Wicked Voice', Vernon Lee (1890, printed in Hauntings: Fantastic Stories)
'The Spectral Hand'/'Le Main Gantée', Jean Lorrain (1895)
- Original text in French by Jean Lorrain (1895, printed in Nightmares of an Ether Drinker/Sensations et Souvenirs)
'The Ghost of Charlotte Cray', Florence Marryat (1883)
- (1883, printed in A Moment of Madness, and other stories)
- (1883, printed in The Ghost of Charlotte Cray, and other stories)
'Lady Farquhar's Old Lady', Mary Louisa Molesworth
'Portent of the Shadow', E. Nesbit (1905, printed in The Index, illustrated)
'The Lady's Walk', Margaret Oliphant (1882, printed in Longman's Magazine; part 1, part 2)
'The Open Door', Margaret Oliphant
'Eleonora', Edgar Allan Poe (1842)
- (1842, printed in The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1842)
- (1845, printed in The Broadway Journal)
'The Raven', Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
- (1845, printed in The Evening Mirror)
- (1845, published under the pseudonym Quarles, printed in The American Review: A Whig Journal)
- (1884, published as a single poem in an illuminated edition)
'The Tell-Tale Heart', Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
- (1843, printed in The Pioneer)
- (1845, printed in The Broadway Journal)
'A Strange Christmas Game', Charlotte Riddell
'Nut Bush Farm', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
'The Old House in Vauxhall Walk', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
'Old Mrs. Jones', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
'The Open Door', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
'Sandy the Tinker', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
'Walnut-Tree House', Charlotte Riddell (1882, printed in Weird Stories)
'The Tapestried Chamber: or the Lady in the Sacque', Sir Walter Scott (1829, printed in The Keepsake)
'Crooken Sands', Bram Stoker (1894)
- (1894, printed in Holly Leaves the Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News)
- (1914, printed in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories)
'A Dream of Red Hands', Bram Stoker (1894)
- (1894, printed in The Sketch, illustrated - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive)
- (1914, printed in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories)
'The Judge's House', Bram Stoker (1891)
- (1891, Holly Leaves the Christmas Number of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News)
- (1914, printed in printed in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories)
'The Secret of Growing Gold', Bram Stoker (1892)
- (1892, printed in Black and White: A Weekly Illustrated Record and Review)
- (1914, printed in printed in Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories)
'The Wicked Editor's Christmas Dream', Alice Mary Vince (1893, printed in Tamworth Herald - this can be accessed via the British Newspaper Archive)
'The Canterville Ghost', Oscar Wilde (1887)
- (1887, printed in The Court and Society Review)
- (1891, printed in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories)
'A Mysterious Visitor', Ellen Wood (1857, printed in Bentley's Miscellany)