Classic ghost stories

Scholars and collectors discover supernatural dangers through old books, churches and objects whose histories invite dangerous curiosity.

Houses, rooms and country places become unsettling when visitors sense supernatural presences behind their familiar surroundings.

A governess at an English country house sees figures she believes threaten the orphaned children in her care.

An English house ghost tries bloodstains and rattling chains on an American family determined to remain practical.

A clergyman's invisible pursuer and a cruel judge's haunting bring supernatural fear into intensely private lives.

Apparitions and unexplained encounters interrupt familiar Victorian surroundings, raising doubts about the dead reaching the living.

Recurring nightmares and strange encounters turn ordinary surroundings into sources of supernatural fear across these stories.

An investigator examines suspected hauntings with unusual devices, testing evidence before deciding whether ghosts or tricks explain them.

Historical searches, old objects and quiet landscapes draw curious people into encounters with threatening supernatural forces.

Ghosts, local legends and love reaching beyond death disturb ordinary people in these seven short stories.

Haunted houses, family curses and accusations of witchcraft place people in danger across these unsettling tales.

A haunted steamship cabin and a romance shadowed by fate provide the settings for two supernatural encounters.

A lonely miser receives a ghostly warning on Christmas Eve before spirits confront him with visions of his life.

A doctor investigates frightened people and troubled places where supernatural forces seem to defy ordinary medical explanations.

Ghostly encounters and unseen threats disturb ordinary lives in houses marked by crimes and forests suggesting another presence.

Two canoeists camping on a Danube island sense something beyond human understanding amid wind, water and shifting sand.