Ghost Stories Books of the 1970s
The 66 most-read ghost stories books first published between 1970 and 1979, led by The Shining (1977), Misery (1978) and Carrie (1974).
This list collects 66 books from the 1970s by 56 authors, published between 1970 and 1979. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
The Shining
Stephen King
Misery
Stephen King
Carrie
Stephen King
The Amityville Horror
Jay Anson
Hell House
Richard Matheson
Ghost Story
Peter Straub
Julia
Peter Straub
McBroom's Wonderful One-acre Farm
Sid Fleischman
The House Next Door
Anne Rivers Siddons
The Ghost Next Door
St. John, Wylly Folk., Wylly Folk St. John
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Penelope Lively
Domino
Phyllis A. Whitney
The headless Cupid
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Ghost Belonged to Me
Richard Peck
The Watch House
Robert Westall
Witch
Barbara Michaels
Haunted House
Peggy Parish
The Ghost stories of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
Cold Hand in Mine
Robert Aickman
Kneeknock Rise
Natalie Babbitt
The Allingham Minibus
Margery Allingham
The Tailypo
Joanna Galdone
Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Washington Irving
Dorrie and the Haunted House
Patricia Coombs
The Whispering Knights
Penelope Lively
Ghost House
Clare McNally
Gus and the Baby Ghost
Jane Thayer
Short Stories
Montague Rhodes James
Ghost That Came Alive
Vic Crume
McBroom's Ghost
Sid Fleischman
Bumps in the Night
Harry Allard, James Marshall
The Ghost of Flight 401
John Grant Fuller
The Red Room Riddle
Scott Corbett
Here Lies the Body
Scott Corbett
The Hounds of Hell
Michel Parry, H.P. Lovecraft
Some Things Strange and Sinister
Joan Kahn, Agatha Christie
Twelve great black cats, and other eerie Scottish tales
Sorche Nic Leodhas
The Airmen Who Would Not Die
John Grant Fuller
Dorrie and the Screebit ghost
Patricia Coombs
The Candy Witch
Steven Kroll
The Greentail Mouse
Leo Lionni
The Ghost in the Swing
Janet Patton Smith
The Haunted House and Other Spooky Poems and Tales
Vic Crume
The house on Parchment Street
Patricia A. McKillip
Come back, Lucy
Pamela Sykes
Barnabas Collins and the Mysterious Ghost
Marilyn Ross
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
R. A. Dick
The World's Most Famous Ghosts
Daniel Cohen
Masters of Shades and Shadows
Seon Manley, Gogo Lewis
Grandpa's Ghost Stories
Flora, James., James Flora
Hauntings
Norah Lofts
Shorecliff
Marilyn Ross
The Thing at the Foot of the Bed and Other Scary Tales
Maria Leach
The Haunted Mansion Mystery
Virginia Masterman-Smith
The Midnight Ghost
Carol Beach York
Chilling Ghost Stories
Bernhardt J. Hurwood
The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House
Mary Chase
Moth Manor
Martha Sherman Bacon
Walk the Night Unseen
Lucinda Baker
The Seventh Armada Ghost Book
Mary Danby
Georgie and the Noisy Ghost
Robert Bright
Classic Ghost Stories
Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Dickens
The Ghost of the Gravestone Hearth
Betsy Haynes
Ghost Stories
Michael Arlen
Ghosts and Grinning Shadows
Helen Adam
Rosalinda
Christopher Leach