Category Archives: Ghost stories

The Apparition of Mrs. Veal

Account of a ghostly visitation said to have occurred in Canterbury in 1705.

Athenodoros and the ghost

Athenenodorus (c. 74 BCE – 7 AD) was a Stoic philosopher and the subject of the first recorded ghost story.

The Turn of the Screw

Horror novella by Henry James, first published in 1898, about a governess who comes to believe that the house where she works is haunted.

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