📚 Ghost Stories

The haunted sentence: ghosts, dread, and the form’s mastery of the almost-seen.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ghost stories in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	Washington Irving	1820	1,017
	The Great God Pan	Arthur Machen	1894	431
	The Haunted House	Charles Dickens	1859	261
	Ghost Stories of an Antiquary	Montague Rhodes James	1904	179
	Three Ghost Stories	Charles Dickens	2008	93
	Topper Takes a Trip	Thorne Smith	1932	77
	Famous Modern Ghost Stories	Dorothy Scarborough	1921	45
	Galápagos	Kurt Vonnegut	1820	41
	Welcome to Dead House	Robert Lawrence Stine	1992	39
	The Haunted Mask	Robert Lawrence Stine	1993	34
	Scary stories to tell in the dark	Alvin Schwartz	1981	32
	A Fine and Private Place	Peter S. Beagle	1960	29
	Scary Stories 3	Alvin Schwartz	1991	28
	The Secret of Terror Castle	Robert Arthur	1964	23
	Widdershins	Oliver Onions	1911	21
	Trigger Warning	Neil Gaiman	2001	20
	Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories	Roald Dahl	1983	19
	The Hollow Boy	Jonathan Stroud	2015	19
	Heart-Shaped Box	Joe Hill	2007	18
	Comes the Blind Fury	John Saul	1980	17
	Grave Peril	Jim Butcher	2001	17
	The Amityville Horror	Jay Anson	1977	16
	Collected Ghost Stories	Montague Rhodes James	1931	15
	Wait till Helen comes	Mary Downing Hahn	1986	15
	Ghostly Gallery	Alfred Hitchcock	1962	13
	Remember Me	Christopher Pike	1989	12
	Tamsin	Peter S. Beagle	1999	12
	The Whispering Skull	Jonathan Stroud	2014	12
	Awful Auntie	David Walliams	1959	11
	Bury Me Deep	Christopher Pike	1991	10

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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