Once upon a midnight dreary While you pondered, weak and weary Over many quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While you nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping As if someone gently rapping rapping at your chamber door "Tis some visitor", you muttered, "Here to tell me I ran out of ghost stories to read and nothing more" "Nevermore" quote the raven
Here are thirteen ghost stories to read upon a midnight dreary . In case you too chicken and want something more light hearted. Short story number 5,6, and 7 are fun reads that might get a laugh out of you or warm your heart.
1. The Old Nurse’s Story by Elizabeth Gaskell
Year: 1852
From: Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology
About: An old nurse tells her story about the tragic events that happen during a snow storm.
2. The Tomb of Sarah by F.G. Loring
Year: 1900
From: Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology
About: A small group of brave men gather together to hunt down a vampire that been terrorizing their village.
3. The Open Door by Charlotte Riddell
Year: 1882
From: Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology
Listen to the story on Horror Babble Podcast
About: A man investigates an empty house and try to find out why a door keeps being left open. Is it a ghost?
4. “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” by M. R. James
Year: 1904
From: Horror Babble Podcast
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About: A man who finds a whistle. When he blows it he finds out what happens.
5. The Haunted Mill or, The Ruin Home by Jerome K. Jerome
From: Fun Phantoms: Tales of Ghostly Entertainment
Read story online – I could not find this as a single story
About: A man inherited a mill and every night the ghost would lead him to where the buried treasure is…or not.
6.The Centerville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Common enough to be find in varies anthologies
Year: 1887
About: A ghost tries to scare away an American family that move into his house. Only for it to backfire every time.
7. Sam and the Sea by George Mackay Brown
From: The Walker Book of Ghost Stories
About: A boy join an ancient feast with Vikings.
8. Hop Frog by Edgar Allen Poe
From: The Unabridged Edgar Allen Poe
Year: 1849
About: A jester seeks revenge on his curl master
9. The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chamber
Year: 1895
Common enough to be find in varies anthologies
About: Two friends read the curse play, The King in Yellow from beginning to end. Slowly they descend into madness.
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10. The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
Year: 1907
From: Horror Babble Podcast
About: A short story told from the perspires of the psych medium, the vitim, and the murderer.
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11. The Thing in the Moonlight by H.P. Lovecraft
Year: 1941
From: Horror Babble Podcast
About: A man dreams of a strange thing in the moonlight
12. The October Game by Ray Bradbury
Year: 1948
From Horror Babble Podcast
About: Kids played a game at a birthday party that comes to a dreadful conclusion.
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13. The Temple by Joyce Carol Oates
Year: 1938
From: American Gothic Tales anthology
About: A man discovers a shine to a strange god up in the attic of an old house.
So tell me have you read any of these stories?
Would you read any of these stories?
Let me know down in the comments.