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• The (most Unusual) Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy

  Parrish, Roan

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  2SLGBTQ+, ROMANCE. Jamie is in the ghost business, but doesn't truly believe in them. That is until they meet Edgar who not only makes Jamie believe in ghosts, but in love as well. Published September 2025.

• I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

  a Novel

  Solà, Irene, 1990-

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  MAGICAL REALISM, TRANSLATION. Generations of cursed women haunt the farmhouse Mas Clavell in this folkloric and earthy translation. English translation published June 2025.

• Catherine the Ghost

  Koja, Kathe

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  ADAPTATION, GOTHIC. In Koja's companion novel to Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," the narration alternates between Catherine Linton (née Earnshaw), a restless ghost who yearns to come home, and her living daughter Cathy Linton, newly widowed and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spite House

  Compton, Johnny

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  GOTHIC, HORROR. A father on the run with his young daughters agrees to a paying gig that requires him to live in a haunted house and record proof of paranormal activity. Mysterious goings-on at the house push the father to look deeper into his past.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Motherthing

  Hogarth, Ainslie

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  CANADIAN, HORROR, HUMOUR. When Ralph and Abby move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, Abby hopes to nurture a good relationship with her in-law. Instead, Laura is vicious and cruel and, even after taking her own life, terrorizes Abby as a ghost.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Briefly, a Delicious Life

  a Novel

  Stevens, Nell, 1985-

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  2SLGBTQ+, BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL. Blanca, who died as a teenager in the 15th century, haunts a monastery in Mallorca. More than 300 years later, when George Sand, her lover Frédéric Chopin, and her children overwinter in the same monastery, Blanca…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nuclear Family

  a Novel

  Han, Joseph

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  MAGIC REALISM. Jacob moves to Seoul to distance himself from his family's expectations at home, but is quickly possessed by the ghost of his long-lost grandfather who is using Jacob to try to cross the border into North Korea. Published June 2022.

• The Sentence

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise

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  INDIGENOUS. When Tookie takes a job at a bookstore, she soon finds out that it is haunted by Flora, a past customer. Published in November 2021.

• Inland

  a Novel

  Obreht, Téa

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  HISTORICAL, WESTERN. In this story of two lost souls, Nora is a lone woman on her homestead awaiting the return of her husband and sons, and Lurie is a reformed criminal haunted by ghosts that scatter the West. Published August 2019.

• Tokyo Ueno Station

  Yū, Miri, 1968-

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  TRANSLATION. After dying homeless in the park next to Tokyo Ueno station, Kazu finds himself in an afterlife, but not reunited with loved ones as he had hoped. Instead, he is still in the same park and forced to recall the pivotal moments of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mapping the Interior

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  HORROR, INDIGENOUS. Junior's dead father is slowly rematerializing, not as the deadbeat dad Junior remembers, but as the fancy dancer his father always wanted to be. But Junior can't help noticing that as his father gets stronger, Junior's sickly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lincoln in the Bardo

  a Novel

  Saunders, George, 1958-

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  HISTORICAL, LITERARY. Recently deceased, Willie Lincoln finds the graveyard thronging with ghosts stuck between life and death. Published February 2017.

• Ghost Talkers

  Kowal, Mary Robinette, 1969-

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  HISTORICAL FANTASY. In World War I, the mediums of the Spirit Corps scour battlefields gathering intelligence from the ghosts of the recently killed. Published August 2016.

• The Little Stranger

  Waters, Sarah, 1966-

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  HISTORICAL, HORROR, THRILLER. A country doctor gets pulled into the paranormal mysteries that are happening in a crumbling mansion. Published April 2009.

• Her Fearful Symmetry

  a Novel

  Niffenegger, Audrey

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  HORROR. Sisters Julia and Valentina inherit their deceased aunt's apartment and move in, where they discover that their aunt has never really left. Published September 2009.

• Heart-shaped Box

  Hill, Joe

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  HORROR, SUSPENSE. Judas, a collector of morbid memorabilia, purchases a suit haunted by a murderous ghost. Published February 2007.

• Beloved

  Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019

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  HISTORICAL. Sethe becomes convinced that the spirit living in her house is that of her eldest daughter whom she killed two decades before. Published September 1987.

• The Shining

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  HORROR. Jack takes a job as winter caretaker of a run-down hotel and moves his family in. Evil forces in the hotel unsuccessfully try to possess the young boy Danny, before turning to Jack. Published January 1977.

• The Haunting of Hill House

  Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965

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  CLASSIC, HORROR. Dr. Montague and some volunteers are determined to find out whether or not Hill House is actually haunted. Over a summer, the strange goings-on at the house work away at the residents' sanity. Published October 1959.

• The Turn of the Screw

  James, Henry, 1843-1916

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  CLASSIC, GOTHIC, HORROR. A governess becomes convinced that malevolent ghosts are a danger to the children in her care. Published April 1898.