Ten Favorite Haunted House Novels

(by request and arranged alphabetically by author; with actual houses (or at least buildings) and actual hauntings (as opposed to merely metaphorical ones); and overlapping a bit with my “Ten Favorite Novels About Ghosts”)

 

  • Ghosts by César Aira

  • The Green Man by Kingsley Amis

  • Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle

  • Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol

  • Coraline by Neil Gaiman

  • With by Donald Harington

  • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

  • Beloved by Toni Morrison

  • Guestbook by Leanne Shapton

  • Softspoken by Lucius Shepard

— August 26, 2022


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