Susan Hill's classic ghost story, The Woman in Black, is a gothic novel about Arthur Kipps, a London lawyer who is summoned to the funeral of Alice Drablow, a reclusive widow, to settle her estate. As ...

Alabama Public Television will soon be released an online series looking at some of the ghost stories from one of the state’s ...

A pair of ill-fated lovers haunting Stephens College and the lingering strains of John William "Blind" Boone's music are among the ghost stories featured in a recent book that aims to take young ...

When Milwaukee-area native Anna Lardinois was an English teacher years ago, she spent her spring breaks travelling to other cities. She loves walking around cities at night, but as a woman traveling ...

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When The Dew Breaker (Knopf; 244 pages), Edwidge Danticat’s book of linked stories, begins, a young artist born in Brooklyn, N.Y.–Haitian, though she’s never been to Haiti–learns from her father how ...

VERA — Georg Kaiser — Alliance ($2.50). This tragi-conundrum, by a famed, pre-Hitlerian German playwright, might be called a ghost story with a live ghost. The story is told by the “ghost,” Boris, in ...

1.The name alone is so marvelously British: Montague Rhodes James. A medievalist and don at Cambridge University, James spent much of his professional life cataloging dusty manuscripts in the ...

Amerie isn’t just pushing her pen in the recording studio. The Grammy-nominated singer and author has announced her new novel, This Is Not a Ghost Story, will release June 10 via William Morrow, an ...

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