Fiction - Ghost Stories

This short story is set a few months before the events in The Forgotten Child.Riley Thomas can see and communicate with ghosts. But ever since a Ouija board incident gone awry, this ability has always scared more than intrigued her and she has vowed...

Five wonderful stories by Ambrose Bierce, full of vivid characters, precise and evocative language, surprises and suspense. Written more than a century ago, these stories still capture the imagination with vivid, precise language that bites--and may...

The human form is familiar to all of us. We like limbs connected to bodies. Writers of the dark and macabre are not too concerned if that remains the case. Indeed limbs, or rather pieces of the body, sometimes are best written about when not...

The death of a beloved sister initiates the career of the heiress of the Tyrone Estate. Pressured into an advantageous marriage, she finds herself residing in a spectral castle, her husband particularly forbidding her to explore the halls of the south...

Ebenezer Scrooge runs a tight shop with a tight fist and a sharp tongue. On Christmas Eve, he is visited by the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley. Marley relates that in order for Scrooge’s soul to be reclaimed, he must be haunted by three...

This is a brand new recording of Charles Dickens’ timeless story, A Christmas Carol.Ebenezer Scrooge is mean and unpleasant. He dislikes people and Christmas especially but on this particular Christmas Eve he’s visited by the ghost of his business...

Step into the timeless tale of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, a literary masterpiece that transcends generations with its enchanting blend of redemption, holiday spirit, and ghostly apparitions. Immerse yourself in the haunting journey of...

Charles Dickens created the story A Christmas Carol known the world over as the story that helped create the modern Christmas season and in doing so gave the world one of the most recognized characters in literature, the miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge....

“There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.”This presentation of the beloved tale tells he classic story of the long night Ebenezer Scrooge spend with...

Did you know that in Victoriam England, a part of the Christmas celebration was the telling of ghost stories? And the greatest and most beloved of all Christams ghost stories is A Christmas Carol by the great Charles Dickens. Sit back and be prepared...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore are as different as England and America themselves and yet almost two centuries later these two iconic tales remain the most popular Christmas stories ever...

Stranded on some marshes, a gentleman out hunting is forced to spend Christmas Eve inside a rotting, beached shipwreck.A Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the...

A reminiscence of the Christmas tree tradition and the stories told around them. Maybe some of the tales will sound familiar...A Christmas Tree is taken from the Victorian Anthologies series featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky,...

Climate fiction author Richard Friedman takes the reader on a journey from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to the edges of the universe with his collection of short stories.A narcissistic east coast billionaire receives a visit from three ghosts in a...

If, at the end of your life, you got to pick one day to relive, what day would you pick?Walter Zawislak wants none of it. Not a day to relive, not a trip down memory lane through a life he wasted. His wife, Rosie, died twenty years ago, and without...

They say that dead men tell no tales. But when good intentions are twisted to evil ends, and the perpetrators don’t care who gets burned in the process, the truth must come out, and it will take Ann Kinnear’s particular skill to uncover it.Can Ann...

A Ghost of a Chance"Is that you my love, that is haunting my mind and nights," cried Hope, the widow of Chance, the King of Time, "hiding in the shadows and in the back of my mind. Scaring me, thrilling me with your presence again. I fear you, I miss...

Akira has secrets. So does the town of Tassamara.Akira Malone believes in the scientific method, evolution, and Einstein’s theory of relativity. And ghosts.All the logic and reason in the world can’t protect her from the truth — she can see and...

Sylvie swore she'd never go back to Tassamara. She was wrong.At seventeen, Sylvie Blair left her infant son with his grandparents while she went shopping. She never returned. Twenty years later, she’s devastated to learn of his early, untimely death....

From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: A Paranormal Mystery Series about Magic Cats and Modern-day Witches​Cath Greenstone, her cousin Bea, and her hippie aunt Astrid live in Wonder Falls, a small town near the mystical Niagara Falls. They run...

A woman haunted by fate, a child silenced by fear, and a house full of secrets and bells.1918. Stripped of her reputation and haunted by a spirit she failed to protect, the young governess Grace Meadows finds herself out of time and growing more and...

This is the unabridged audio recording of M.R. James' excellent ghost story 'A Neighbour's Landmark'. The author's stories were written with the purpose of being read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. This highly-praised...

The ghost of Ambrose Bierce, American writer and civil war Union soldier, has been displaced from the home he had been haunting. Enlisting the aid of a "haunting agent," he finds a new residence that has the requisite dark history and terrible secret...

This is the unabridged audio recording of M.R. James' excellent ghost story 'A School Story'. The author's stories were written with the purpose of being read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. This highly-praised version,...