Tropes Ghosts

Ghosts

The restless dead who can't or won't move on. And the living who must decide whether to free them or be haunted forever.

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    Dark Matter

    Michelle Paver · Horror

    A terrifying 1930s ghost story set in the haunting wilderness of the far north.

    gothic atmosphere · ghosts · survival · psychological thriller · historical fiction

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    Beloved

    Toni Morrison · Literary Fiction

    Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their…

    historical fiction · magical realism · trauma recovery · haunted setting · ghosts

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Bodies of Work

    Clay McLeod Chapman · Horror

    “Clay McLeod Chapman is one of my favorite horror storytellers working today.” — Jordan Peele A murderous artist is haunted by the spirits of those…

    psychological thriller · revenge plot · ghosts · grimdark

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    Ninth House

    Leigh Bardugo · Fantasy

    Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class.

    dark academia · urban fantasy · trauma recovery · ghosts · demons

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Wretch

    Eric LaRocca · Horror

    From rising horror star and award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes a nightmarish, haunting, tech-Gothic thrill…

    dark romance · obsessive love · trauma recovery · gothic atmosphere · ghosts

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    Turn Off the Light

    Jacquie Walters · Horror

    Two women living centuries apart are bound by the same dark secret in this haunting novel that "upends everything you think you know about ghost…

    gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · multiple timelines · ghosts · twist ending

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    A Christmas Carol

    Charles Dickens · Literary Fiction

    A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens.

    redemption arc · ghosts · gothic atmosphere · coming of age

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    Fabulous Bodies

    Chuck Tingle · Horror

    Fashion influencer by day and grave-robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaels—a flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer…

    romantic comedy · found family · ghosts

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Soul Searching

    Lyla Sage · Romance

    Home is where the heart is—and this one is haunted.

    paranormal romance · small town · slow burn · ghosts · trauma recovery

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    When I Was Death

    Alexis Henderson · Horror

    A group of girls does Death incarnate's bidding in this haunting speculative young adult novel by the author of The Year of the Witching.

    coming of age · trauma recovery · found family · ghosts

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Stolen Tongues

    Felix Blackwell · Horror

    A romantic cabin getaway doesn’t go exactly as planned.

    forced proximity · ghosts · gothic atmosphere · paranormal romance · survival

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Winter People

    Jennifer McMahon · Horror

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Invited will shock you with a simmering psychological thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and…

    psychological thriller · haunted setting · ghosts · trauma recovery · multiple timelines

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    The Dead Romantics

    Ashley Poston · Romance

    paranormal romance · slow burn · ghosts · forbidden romance · romantic comedy

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward · Literary Fiction

    **A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD** In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book…

    coming of age · found family · trauma recovery · magical realism · ghosts

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Silent Companions

    Laura Purcell · Horror

    **When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from…

    gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · ghosts · locked room · psychological thriller

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    Hunger

    Joe Hill · Horror

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of King Sorrow, The Fireman, and NOS4A2 comes a chilling new novel about the battle for a country's…

    ghosts · psychological thriller · high stakes survival

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    The Babysitter Lives

    Stephen Graham Jones · Horror

    The Babysitter Lives When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and…

    high stakes survival · haunted setting · ghosts

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    Heart-Shaped Box LP

    Joe Hill · Horror

    Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals .

    psychological thriller · ghosts · obsessive love · revenge plot

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    The Warm Hands of Ghosts

    Katherine Arden · Literary Fiction

    During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this…

    historical fiction · magical realism · quest · ghosts

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Midnight on the Celestial

    Julia Alexandra · Fantasy

    Roe Damarcus has never been afraid of the dead.

    paranormal romance · ghosts · dark romance · high stakes survival

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Tower of the Tyrant

    J.T. Greathouse · Fantasy

    In a terrorized kingdom where the ghosts of the past do not rest in peace, a sorceress comes calling.

    grimdark · gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · morally grey character · ghosts

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    Erin Crosby Eckstine · Literary Fiction

    "A strong-willed enslaved girl is haunted by her sister's ghost as she grapples with circumstances beyond her control, risking her life as the Civil…

    survival · trauma recovery · historical fiction · ghosts

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    A Sea of Unspoken Things

    Adrienne Young · Mystery & Thriller

    "In this captivating atmospheric novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Unmaking of June Farrow, a woman investigates her twin…

    psychological thriller · trauma recovery · ghosts

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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    The Woman in Black

    Susan Hill · Horror

    In the process of settling an estate, Arthur Kipps finds himself confronted with some very unsettling matters.

    gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · ghosts · psychological thriller

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    Masters of Death

    Olivie Blake · Fantasy

    Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire.

    urban fantasy · paranormal romance · slow burn · vampires · ghosts

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit