Books like 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.
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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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 Haunting of Hill House
A scholar of the supernatural invites three guests to spend a summer at Hill House, a notoriously haunted mansion, and the house begins to work on Eleanor, the loneliest of them.
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.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Eight ghost stories by the Cambridge medievalist, in which scholars, collectors and clergymen poke into old manuscripts, mezzotints and whistles found in the sand, and wake things that should have stayed asleep.
Don't Look Now
Stories of grief, premonition, and dread, including the title novella of a couple haunted by their dead child in Venice.
The Birds and Other Stories
Stories of ordinary people confronting inexplicable menace, including the famous title story of birds turning on a coastal village.
What Moves the Dead
Retired soldier Alex Easton rides to the crumbling House of Usher to help an old friend whose sister is dying, and finds the tarn, the hares and the fungus around the house acting very strangely.