Can you name the 100 most famous ghost stories?

Answer 1

That's a tough one. It kind of depends on what part of the world or culture you are thinking of. For example, there may be some very well-known or famous ghost stories in Russia that someone in Brazil has never even heard of.

Ones that come to mind to me, anyway, are stories such as Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Telltale Heart', Shirley Jackson's 'The Haunting of Hill House', Washington Irving's 'The Flying Dutchman on Tappan Sea' (- based on a 1700's ghost story that has had many versions over time), Stephen King's 'The Shining', Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', Henry James' 'The Turn of the Screw', Algernon Blackwood's 'The Empty House' and 'The Willows', Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo's 'Casper the Friendly Ghost' (which began as a children's book), Dan Aykroyd's 'Ghostbusters' original script - which makes for fun reading on its own merits - that the movies and cartoon series were based on, Kelly Link's 'The Specialist's Hat', 'The Damned Thing' by Abrose Bierce, Edith Wharton's 'Bewitched' (not to be confused with the 1960's TV sitcom), F. Marion Crawford's 'The Upper Berth', Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Black Cat', Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Old Nurse's Story', Joseph Seridan Le Fanu's 'An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street', Charles Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol' and 'The Signal-Man', Robert Louis Stevenson's 'The Body Snatcher', Oscar Wilde's 'The Canterville Ghost', Rudyard Kipling's 'At the End of the Passage', M.R. James' 'Lost Hearts', plus so many more.