Books like The Turn of the Screw
A young governess at a remote English country house becomes convinced that the two children in her care are being visited by the ghosts of two dead servants, or perhaps she is the one who is haunted.
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Ghosts
Ghost stories Wharton gathered at the end of her life, in which old houses, servants' bells and letters from the dead unsettle wealthy, well-mannered people who would prefer not to believe.
The Woman in Black
A young London solicitor travels to a remote market town to settle the papers of a reclusive widow at Eel Marsh House, a building cut off by the tides, and sees a wasted woman in black at her funeral.
Uncle Silas
After her father's death, young Maud Ruthyn is sent to live as the ward of her uncle Silas, a reclusive man still shadowed by an old scandal, in his decaying house in Derbyshire.
The Séance
A young woman who once staged seances to console her grieving mother inherits Wraxford Hall, a decaying Suffolk mansion where a family vanished years before, along with a bundle of papers about what happened there.
The Silent Companions
Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie Bainbridge arrives at her late husband's crumbling country estate, where a locked garret holds a painted wooden figure that looks uncannily like her.
The Little Stranger
In the summer of 1947 a country doctor is called to Hundreds Hall, the decaying Warwickshire house he once glimpsed as a boy, and becomes entangled with the family whose fortunes and nerves are failing.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A lawyer discovers that his respectable colleague harbours a monstrous alter ego, and the duality between them becomes the defining metaphor for Victorian moral hypocrisy.
Gallant
Olivia Prior, a mute orphan at a grim school for girls, receives a letter from an uncle she never knew inviting her home to Gallant, the family estate, but no one there expected her, and the house holds a shadow that only she can see.
White Is for Witching
In a house in Dover that resents strangers, a girl with pica who eats chalk grieves her mother, and the house itself takes a turn telling the story of the women it has kept.
Carmilla
Laura lives with her father in a lonely castle in Styria until a carriage accident leaves a beautiful girl in their care, and the guest's languid affection arrives with a sickness that spreads through the countryside.
The Great God Pan
A doctor performs brain surgery on a young woman so that she can see the god Pan, and years later a string of suicides among London gentlemen leads back to a beautiful woman no one can quite place.
My Cousin Rachel
A young Englishman becomes obsessed with his beautiful cousin Rachel, unable to determine whether she's an innocent widow or the woman who murdered his guardian.