The most popular ghost stories books of 2020

Ghost stories are tales of the dead who do not rest. A house with a history, footsteps in an empty corridor, a figure at the window: the pleasure is in the slow chill more than the shock. There are classic hauntings and modern ones, from short tales to full novels. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.

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Seven Deadly Shadows
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Seven Deadly Shadows

Courtney Alameda, Valynne E. Maetani

Published 2020

384 pages

Don't Turn Out the Lights A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
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Don't Turn Out the Lights A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Madeleine Roux, et al, R. L. Stine, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Others, Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Josh Malerman, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl, Brendan Reichs, Barry Lyga, Michael Northrop, D. J. MacHale, Micol Ostow, Brenna Yovanoff, Tonya Hurley, Courtney Alameda, Amy Lukavics

2020 · 2021 edition

416 pages

Blackbird
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Blackbird

Scott Cawthon

Published 2020

256 pages

Scare Me
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Scare Me

K. R. Alexander

Published 2020

224 pages

Yorick and Bones
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Yorick and Bones

Jeremy Tankard, Hermione Tankard

Published 2020

144 pages

Bury Me
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Bury Me

K. R. Alexander

Published 2020

224 pages

Camp Murderface
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Camp Murderface

Saundra Mitchell, Josh Berk

2020 · 2021 edition

368 pages

Brother Wulf
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Brother Wulf

Joseph Delaney

Published 2020

288 pages