Ghost Stories Books of the 1980s
The 128 most-read ghost stories books first published between 1980 and 1989, led by It (1986), Danse Macabre (1980) and The New Girl (1989).
This list collects 128 books from the 1980s by 106 authors, published between 1980 and 1989. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
It
Stephen King
Danse Macabre
Stephen King
The New Girl
Robert Lawrence Stine
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Alvin Schwartz
Works (Carrie / Night Shift / 'Salem's Lot / Shining)
Stephen King
Remember Me
Christopher Pike
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
Alvin Schwartz, Victor Rivas
Fear Street - The Surprise Party
Robert Lawrence Stine
The Dollhouse Murders
Betty Ren Wright
Wait till Helen comes
Mary Downing Hahn
The Doll in the Garden
Mary Downing Hahn
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
The Fifth Child
Doris Lessing
A Dark, Dark Tale
Ruth Brown
Behind the Attic Wall
Sylvia Cassedy
Novels (Carrie / Salem's Lot / Shining)
Stephen King
All That Glitters
Linda Howard
Nancy Drew ghost stories
Leslie McFarlane
Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories
Roald Dahl
The Ghost at Dawn's house. (Baby-Sitters Club no.09)
Ann M. Martin
The Conquest
Jude Deveraux
Something Upstairs
Avi
Christina's Ghost
Betty Ren Wright
Ghost Hunters
Ed Warren, Lorraine Warren
A Tale of Time City
Diana Wynne Jones
Choose Your Own Adventure - Ghost Hunter
Edward Packard
Here I stay
Barbara Michaels
The Time of the Ghost
Diana Wynne Jones
The Scary Stories Treasury
Alvin Schwartz
Nancy Drew ghost stories 2
Leslie McFarlane
Comes the Blind Fury
John Saul
Haunted
James Herbert
Groosham Grange
Anthony Horowitz, Nickolas Grace
The Haunting
Margaret Mahy
La Lluvia Amarilla
Julio Llamazares
The Elementals
Michael McDowell
Grendel
Matt Wagner, Pat McEown
The Haunted
Robert Curran
The Ghostway
Tony Hillerman
The Haunted House
Jamie Suzanne
The Cellar
Richard Laymon
Hershel and the Hanukkah goblins
Eric A. Kimmel
The Mystery of the Galloping Ghost
Kathryn Kenny
The Scariest Stories You've Ever Heard
Mark Mills
House of Danger
R. A. Montgomery
My Friend Walter
Michael Morpurgo
Ghosts Beneath Our Feet
Betty Ren Wright
The Secret Window
Betty Ren Wright
The ghosts of Departure Point
Eve Bunting
The Shadow Guests
Joan Aiken
Nighty Nightmare
James Howe, Leslie H. Morrill
Sweet whispers, Brother Rush
Virginia Hamilton
Short & Shivery
Robert D. San Souci, Katherine Coville
The Oxford book of English ghost stories
Michael Cox, R. A. Gilbert
Graven Images
Paul Fleischman
The Hardy Boys Ghost Stories
Leslie McFarlane
Ghost Abbey
Robert Westall
Haunted Island
Joan Lowery Nixon
The Haunted House
R. A. Montgomery
The Rules of Life
Fay Weldon
Devil's Race
Avi
The ghost of Genny Castle
John Escott
Night Show
Richard Laymon
Ghostly Companions
Vivien Alcock
The Woman in Black
Michael Marland, Susan Ray
Eyes of the Tarot
Bruce Coville
13 Ghosts
Will Osborne
Poltergeist
James Kahn
Agnes Cecilia
Maria Gripe
The Ghost in the Third Row
Bruce Coville
A Forgotten Girl
Elisabeth Ogilvie
Ghost Host
Marilyn Singer
The Haunting Of Grade Three (Lucky Star)
Grace Maccarone
The Ghost-eye Tree
Bill Martin Jr.
The Teeny Tiny Woman
Jane O'Connor
Ghostbusters
Ann Digby, Anne Digby
A Ghost in the Window
Betty Ren Wright
The Pike River phantom
Betty Ren Wright
Caly
Sharon Combes
The Mystery of the Pirate Ghost
Geoffrey Hayes
Possession
Peter James
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Asimov's Ghosts / Asimov's Monsters [24 stories]
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg
Ghost in the Garden
Carol H. Behrman
Haunted Houses
Lynne Tillman, Michelle Tea
Rebel Waltz
Kay Hooper, Lyssa Browne
The ghost of Graydon Place
Dorothy Brenner Francis
The Ghost in the Picture
Meg Schneider
Horror Mansion
J. N. Williamson
Ghost Cat
Beverly Butler
Campfire Chillers
Edith M. Freeman, E.M. Freeman
Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories
Montague Rhodes James
The Boy and the Ghost
Robert D. San Souci
Bat Child's Haunted House
Mercer Mayer
The haunting of Frances Rain
Margaret Buffie
Algernon Blackwood
Michael Ashley
Asimov's Ghosts
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg