Kate Mosse's Top Ten Ghost Stories

gothicangel · Oct 27, 2010

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/27/kate-mosse-top-10-ghost-stories

Feel free to add your own favourites.

My choice is: The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson.

blacbird · Oct 27, 2010

Good list, haven't read some of these. Myself, I'd replace Wharton's "Bewitched" with her "Afterward". And I'm a little disappointed that no story by Oliver Onions made her list, but it was a ten-and-no-more-than-ten list, so some things had to fall aside.

Phaeal · Oct 30, 2010

Throwing in some E. F. Benson, in particular, "How Fear Departed the Long Gallery." And "Caterpillars."

M. R. James. Can't go wrong, but I'll throw in "Number 13" and "Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad." To be nitpicky, Mosse's James pick isn't a ghost story, but one of his inimitable demon stories.

H. P. Lovecraft. A neat little story called "In the Vault." And the more expansive "The Shunned House."

If we're venturing into novels, I'm partial to King's The Shining and Straub's Ghost Story. Hill House goes without saying. It wears the crown.

gothicangel · Oct 30, 2010

Phaeal said:
Throwing in some E. F. Benson, in particular, "How Fear Departed the Long Gallery." And "Caterpillars."

M. R. James. Can't go wrong, but I'll throw in "Number 13" and "Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad." To be nitpicky, Mosse's James pick isn't a ghost story, but one of his inimitable demon stories.

H. P. Lovecraft. A neat little story called "In the Vault." And the more expansive "The Shunned House."

If we're venturing into novels, I'm partial to King's The Shining and Straub's Ghost Story. Hill House goes without saying. It wears the crown.

You should try Adam Nevill's Apartment 16.

Phaeal · Nov 1, 2010

Will do!

Kate Mosse's Top Ten Ghost Stories

gothicangel

Toughen up.

blacbird

Phaeal

Whatever I did, I didn't do it.

gothicangel

Toughen up.

Phaeal

Whatever I did, I didn't do it.