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Please suggest a good ghost story

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VittysCardigan · 16/11/2017 10:48

I have just finished Thin Air & i loved it!

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Hygge · 12/01/2018 17:17

A Good and Useful Hurt by Aric Davies (I think that's his name).

It's about a tattoo artist who starts to do memorial tattoos using a mixture of ink and ashes from the people who have died.

This gives a way to communicate with the dead people, but also puts the people at the tattoo studio in danger.

LiveLifeWithPassion · 18/12/2017 12:56

This House is Haunted by John Boyne is a good ‘old fashioned’ style ghost story.

BerkInBag · 17/12/2017 20:59

How about The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley. Brilliant. Not a ghost story but definitely supernatural , English rural horror/gothic.

FellOutOfBed2wice · 17/12/2017 19:11

I loved Dark Matter so going to look up some of these!

squirre1 · 17/12/2017 19:06

Ghost story by peter straub

expatinscotland · 16/12/2017 23:01

Heart-Shaped Box was good! So was The Woman in Black.

Schlimbesserung · 16/12/2017 22:54

The turn Of The Screw by Henry James is one of the great classics.

GinIsIn · 16/12/2017 22:53

I found Thin Air so disappointing - it’s just Dark Matter rewritten slightly less well.

Heart shaped Box by Joe Hill is a good one

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VittysCardigan · 09/12/2017 18:06

Have just seen all these replies, thank you!

I have read Woman in Black & the other Susan Hill mentioned.

I have also read Dark Matter. Will have a look at the other suggestions

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totalturmoil · 08/12/2017 22:04

The Silent Companions, jeez WHAT. A read

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 08/12/2017 22:01

M R James - Collected Ghost Stories

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 08/12/2017 22:00

The small hand - Susan Hill
The little stranger - Sarah Waters

FairyAnn · 08/12/2017 21:59

I second The Woman in Black. Very good (unlike the film...)

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 08/12/2017 21:57

Susan Hill wrote some great ghost stories, including the Woman in Black. (The original is NOT the same as the film).

aaahhhBump · 04/12/2017 14:25

Blackhill farm Tim O'rourke

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quirkychick · 04/12/2017 14:23

I was going to suggest Dark Matter, too.

Ulysses · 04/12/2017 14:22

I’m not a huge ghost story fan as I’m a big scaredy cat but I loved The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell. It’s a historical peice split across Victorian and Tudor times. Beautifully written and a nicely done ending and genuinely spine tingly.

YoungYolandaYorgensen39 · 04/12/2017 14:16

Dark Matter by the same author?

Foxjar · 16/11/2017 18:37

Think there was a ghost story thread somewhere.

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