I talked about nonfiction ghost books, and now I want to talk about fictional ghosts. Ghosts appear in literature as far back as 2000 B.C.E., and in oral traditions even further. Ghosts play a part in ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Susan Hill's classic ghost story, The Woman in Black, is a gothic novel ...

GHOSTS IN AMERICAN HOUSES (229 pp.) —James Reynolds—Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($12.50). James Reynolds is an author (Fabulous Spain), artist, and friend of ghosts. Some years ago, he set out to paint a ...

Featuring family secrets, spectral visitors, and fabulous women, this book is keen to muddle facile understandings of time ...

THE LADY WHO CAME TO STAY—R. E. Spencer—Knopf ($2.50). The late great expatriate Author Henry James (1843-1916), pontifical in his generation, was fast diffused by death, has become in these days ...

The concept of the kitchen ghosts has been with me for a long time and has appeared in both my fiction and poetry before appearing directly in my nonfiction. But this specific book began with an essay ...