The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (Mammoth Books) (100 page)

Novel, highly regarded by M. R. James, about a ghost who materialises at a house party in Weald Manor and influences all the guests in different ways.

A lone ancient house amidst a new development in Boston is haunted by the ghost of a man and woman, its former owners, who prey on the new residents.

Psychic investigator David Ash risks his sanity when he delves into the mysterious events terrorising a small community in the Chiltern Hills.

Another case for ghost hunter David Ash, when he spends three nights in the terror-ridden house called Edbrook trying to solve its nightmare past.

Two ghosts haunt a German town house, appear at seances and also intervene in the affairs of the residents to prove their actuality.

The maid in a beautiful Regency home learns the secret of two ghosts – a young man and woman – and tries to help them escape their fate.

Acclaimed as the most famous haunted house story in literature, it recounts how a psychic researcher invites a group of people to help solve the mystery which seems to lie in the character of the original builder of Hill House.

Another of the great landmarks of supernatural fiction – allegedly based on a true story told to the author – about a pair of dead, evil servants who return to haunt a house and gain control over the two small children living there.

Author Jack Torrance agrees to look after an old hotel while it is shut up and snowed in for the winter. Soon he and his wife and small son are experiencing strange sights, sounds and inexplicable occurrences as the building takes on a life of its own.

Runhill Court is built over the site of an ancient Saxon building and is the focus of supernatural forces which provide the occupants with vivid pictures of the past, as well as putting them in danger of their lives.

Classic novel of an old house on Rhode Island which destroys the sanity and health of all those who live in it until its terrible secret is revealed.

A run-down rural plantation in the American south is haunted by the ghost of a tyrannical former owner, who returns to prey on his descendants and tries to abduct the wife of one of them.

Set in a top-security mental hospital, this is the story of Stella Raphael, the beautiful wife of the new deputy superintendent, who sets out to possess Edgar Stark, an artist, sculptor and the perpetrator of an unspeakably brutal crime.

Romantic story by a member of the Henry James circle about a lonely woman in a villa haunted by the ghost of a nobleman who protects her from an unscrupulous seducer.

A young teacher who rents a cottage discovers it is haunted by a restless ghost, but he returns her kindness by showing her the way to a lost fortune.

The house has terrible supernatural powers that have defied the investigations of a number of psychic researchers. When a new team arrives to find the source of the phenomena, they are soon confronting the terror that slaughtered their predecessors.

Set in an old New York mansion, the ghost of the owner’s great-grandmother returns to put a wayward daughter in her place with unexpected results.

While studying the influence of Elizabethan literature on the American colonies, a professor visits an ancient haunted mansion in Berkshire full of unimaginable horrors and there meets a terrible fate.

Occult thriller about a spectacularly haunted house in New York and a curious religious cross, which holds the key to solving the supernatural events.

Gothic novel by the mystery writer better-known as Ellis Peters about a young doctor living in a fine house in the middle of a slum and the interventions of a ghostly victim of a riding accident.

The Armsworth family have pretensions to be among the social elite in a small Illinois town. Alexander, the son, is uneasy about this situation, but things begin to change when he discovers the ghost of a young Creole girl from the Civil War era haunting the barn.

The house at Lone Lake is haunted by the ghost of a woman of great paranormal powers as well as her possessions just as she left them – together providing clues about the ancient inhabitants of America.

A quarrelling husband and wife lose their way while on a night drive and are forced to seek shelter in an old, decaying house inhabited by a weird family and their servants. Filmed as
The Old Dark House
starring Boris Karloff.

A man recovering from illness in a haunted house in rural England solves the mystery of the tortured spirit in the living room when he discovers a cache of old letters.

The ghost of Crow Hall is a woman whose presence effects the health of the residents, but ultimately leads to the discovery of a skeleton and some hidden jewellery.

When two half-sisters rent semi-decayed Mill House, they are confronted by various supernatural manifestations including the reenactment of a crime which they ultimately solve.

River Hall is so badly haunted that no one will live there – until the ghost finally appears to confront its murderer and thereby lifts a terrible curse.

The ghost of a colonial beauty who haunts a Virginia mansion, “vampirises” the suitor of a young woman living on the adjacent estate.

Novel told from the point of a view of a ghost who is trying to discover why he is condemned to haunt a house by making contact with its residents – with fatal results.

A would-be author who stays in a haunted house is invited by the ghost to tell its remarkable story and does so with great success – until the young man refuses to fulfil his part of the bargain with the spirit.

The ghost of a lewd and wicked monk who haunts an old palace is laid to rest by a visitor forced to spend a night in the old man’s cell.

An old abbey where black magic was once practised works its evil on a couple, in particular the neurotic wife.

Classic farce about an American family who take up residence in haunted Canterville Chase in Berkshire where the sympathetic young daughter helps the tormented ghost to gain release from his punishment.

The ghosts of two mourners carrying a coffin haunt the ancient family estate of Ashlydyat – their appearance said to herald a death in the family – until the discovery of a skeleton brings events to a dramatic climax.

A famous surgeon and his wife holidaying in Worcestershire learn about the ill-repute of Cold Harbour House and come to suspect that its reputation for being haunted originated from an ancient evil that dates back to Roman times.