Scary Online Ghost Stories

From time immemorial mankind has amused himself by making and telling stories about what might exist beyond physical death.

Perhaps ghost stories fulfill the need in our safe, civilised lives to sometimes get our pulses racing and adrenaline pumping. Or maybe they give voice to that hidden, inner certainty that we are more than mere flesh and blood.

Short, scary ghost stories offers a growing collection of ghost stories old and new - fictional and real.

Free online ebooks

The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Algernon Blackwood

Famous Modern Ghost Stories Various

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary M R James

Ghostly Tales J S Le Fanu

The Haunters and the Haunted
edited by Ernest Rhys

The Phantom Rickshaw and other Ghost Stories
Rudyard Kipling

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories
Ambrose Bierce

Some Chinese Ghosts Lafcadio Hearn

Stories of Mystery edited by Rossiter Johnson

A Thin Ghost and Others M R James

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Raven Edition
Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3
Volume 4 | Volume 5

Japanese Ghost Stories

WANTED
short, scary ghost stories - fiction or factual - for publication on this site. If published, we will be happy to list author's biographical details and a link back to your Web site. Copyright will remain with authors. Send submissions/outlines to abracad.

Edgar Allan Poe - The Raven

Free Classic Ghost Stories

The Ash-Tree M R James
Canon Alberic's Scrap-book M R James
A Case of Eavesdropping Algernon Blackwood
Casting the Runes M R James
The Coming of Abel Behenna Bram Stoker
Count Magnus M R James
The Empty House Algernon Blackwood
A Ghost Guy De Maupassant
The Judge's House Bram Stoker
Keeping his Promise Algernon Blackwood
Lost Hearts M R James
Martin's Close M R James
The Mezzotint M R James
Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance M R James
The Murder Trial Charles Dickens
Number 13 M R James
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'
M R James
The Rose Garden M R James
A School Story M R James
The Signal-Man Charles Dickens
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral M R James
The Tractate Middoth M R James
The Treasure of Abbot Thomas M R James
The Vision of Tom Chuff J S Le Fanu
The Wood of the Dead Algernon Blackwood

Classic stories in print : movies

Contributed Stories

ABC Cinema Paranormal Investigation www.magic2k.com
Berry Pomeroy Castle www.magic2k.com
Come Here www.magic2k.com
Devil On The Tombstone Cara Swann
Ghost stories from Castle Oliver Nicholas Browne
The Intrusion John Fogarty
The Phantom Dog and Horse Donald Ryles
The Prank Zarir Keki Irani
The Real Hound of the Baskervilles www.magic2k.com
Torn Apart A. Le Sage
Wanstead Hospital T Stokes

Short, scary ghost stories is compiled by abracad. See also New Age Spirituality; Songs and poems