Ghost Fiction

L-R, top - bottom: GeGeGe no Kitarō, Ghost Master, Ghost Writer 2019, The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper.

This index is for works that focus on ghosts. Just having a ghost does not qualify. Instead, the ghost should be one of the main characters, the main threat, or otherwise be central to the plot (as in Hamlet, where it's the ghost that kickstarts the story). The work must also make use of at least three ghost tropes. Even if their ghosts are different, if they're central to the plot, add them here.

Also see the related indexes Demon Works, Angel Works, Mummy Media, Vampire Fiction, Werewolf Works, Witch Works, and Zombie Stories. Can sometimes overlap with Psychic Stories, since it's common for psychic characters to be able to see ghosts.

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Works:

Multimedia Franchises

• Amityville
• Beetlejuice
• Bleach
• Child's Play
• Dragon Ball
• Gakkou no Kaidan
• Ghostbusters
• The Haunted Mansion
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• Scooby-Doo (although most of the ghosts are fake but sometimes there are real ones depending on the work)

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Anime & Manga

• Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
• Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales
• Bleach
• Dark Gathering
• Dear NOMAN
• Denjin N
• Dragon Ball
  • Dragon Ball
  • Dragon Ball Z
  • Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound
  • Dragon Ball Z: Broly – Second Coming
  • Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn
  • Dragon Ball GT
  • Dragon Ball Super
• Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
• Eerie Queerie!
• Flame of Recca
• Ghost Hound
• Ghost Hunt
• GeGeGe no Kitarō
• Ghost Stories
• Ghost Sweeper Mikami
• Ghost Talker's Daydream
• Go! Princess Pretty Cure
  • Raise the Curtain! The Longed-For Noble Party!
• Haunted Junction
• Hikaru no Go
• Hungry Marie
• I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die
• Little Ghost Q-Taro
• Lovesickness
• Mail
• Mieruko-chan
• Mitama Security: Spirit Busters
• Mob Psycho 100
• Mokke
• Muhyo and Roji
• My Lovely Ghost Kana
• Natsu no Arashi!
• Natsuyuki Rendezvous
• Occult Academy
• Okko's Inn
• Phantom of the Idol
• Phantom Quest Corp. (a.k.a. Yuugen Kaisha)
• Pokémon Journeys: The Series
• Recently, My Sister Is Unusual
• Re-Kan!
• Ride Your Wave
• RIN-NE
• Sailor Moon
  • "The Summer, The Beach, Youth and Ghosts"
  • "Death of The Sailor Guardians: The Tragic Final Battle ("Day of Destiny")"
• Shaman King
  • Shaman King (2001)
• Shibito no Koe wo Kiku ga Yoi
• Shiori Experience
• Spirit Circle
• Tenmaku Cinema
• There's a Ghost Behind That Gal
• Thriller Restaurant
• Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun
• Tonari no Yōkai-san
• The Unpopular Mangaka and the Helpful Onryo-san
• Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories
• Yurara
• Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
• YuYu Hakusho (appropriately named Ghost Fighter in the Philippines)
• Zekkyou Gakkyuu

Comic Books

• Anya's Ghost
• Brody's Ghost
• Coady And The Creepies
• Cyrus Perkins and the Haunted Taxi Cab
• Deadman
• Ghost
• Ghost Island
• Ghosts (DC Comics)
• Graveyard Shakes
• Haunt
• The Haunted Mansion: Frights of Fancy
• The Haunted Tank
• Louca
• Maya Fox
• Mort the Dead Teenager
• Odd Thomas
• The Spectre
• The Wraith

Fan Works

• Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger
• Mike's New Ghostly Family

Films — Animation

• Casper's Haunted Christmas
• Coco
• Corpse Bride
• Final Fantasy
  • Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
  • Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
• Monster House
• ParaNorman
• Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost
• Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
• Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost
• Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers
• When Marnie Was There

Films — Live-Action

• 100 Feet
• 13 Ghosts
• 1408
• 303 Fear/Faith/Revenge
• The 6th Man
• The Amazing Mr. Blunden
• An American Haunting
• Amityville
  • The Amityville Horror (1979)
  • Amityville II: The Possession
  • Amityville 3-D
  • The Amityville Curse
  • The Amityville Horror (2005)
  • Amityville: The Awakening
• And Now the Screaming Starts!
• Apparitional
• Apartment 143
• The Awakening
• Beetlejuice
  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• The Bermuda Depths
• Black Panther (2018)
• Blackbeard's Ghost
• Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet
• The Boogeyman (1980)
• The Bridge Curse
• Candyman
  • Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
  • Candyman: Day of the Dead
  • Candyman (2021)
• Carnival of Souls
• Carved
• La Casa 3
• Casper
  • Casper: A Spirited Beginning
  • Casper Meets Wendy
• The Changeling
• Charlie St. Cloud
• Children of the Corn: Revelation
• Child's Play
  • Child's Play (1988)
  • Child's Play 2
  • Child's Play 3
  • Bride of Chucky
  • Seed of Chucky
  • Curse of Chucky
  • Cult of Chucky
• A Chinese Ghost Story
• The Conjuring Universe
  • The Conjuring
  • Annabelle
  • The Conjuring 2
  • Annabelle: Creation
  • The Nun
• Crimson Peak
• The Crow (1994)
  • The Crow (2024)
• The Curse of El Charro
• Curse of Pirate Death
• Curse of the Headless Horseman
• Danur: I can see Ghosts
  • Danur 2: Maddah
• Darby and the Dead
• The Dark (2005)
• Dark Night of the Scarecrow
• Dark Water
• Darkness Falls
• Dead Birds
• Dead Friend
• Dead of Night
• Deadtime Stories: Volume 2
• Death on Demand
• Death Ship
• Death Spa
• The Deep House
• The Devil Commands
• The Devil's Backbone
• The Disappointments Room
• The Enchantress — Ur-Example to A Chinese Ghost Story
• The Entity
• Extra Ordinary (2019)
• The Eye
• FeardotCom
• Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
• The Fog
• The Forest (1982)
• The Forest (2016)
• Forget Me Not
• Frankenstein Island
• Fraternity Massacre at Hell Island
• The Frighteners
• From Beyond the Grave
• Full Circle
• The Gallows
• The Ghost (1982)
• Ghost (1990)
• Ghost (2012)
• The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• The Ghost Breakers
• Ghostbusters (1984)
  • Ghostbusters II
  • Ghostbusters (2016)
  • Ghostbusters: Afterlife
  • Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
• Ghost Dad
• The Ghost Dance
• Ghost from the Machine
• The Ghost Goes Gear
• The Ghost Goes West
• Ghost Graduation
• Ghost in the Machine
• Ghost Lab (2021)
• The Ghost of Yotsuya
• Ghost Rock
• Ghosts Can't Do It
• Ghost Shark
• Ghost Ship
• Ghosts of Mars
• Ghosts of War
• A Ghost Story
• Ghost Town (1988)
• Ghost Town (2008)
• Ghost Voyage
• Ghostwatch
• The Gift (2000)
• Good Morning Pakistan
• Gothika
• The Gravedancers
• Grave Encounters
  • Grave Encounters 2
• Grim Prairie Tales
• Gut-Pile
• Hallowed Ground
• Hatchet
• Haunted Forest
• The Haunted Mansion
  • The Haunted Mansion (2003)
  • Muppets Haunted Mansion
  • Haunted Mansion (2023)
• Haunter
• The Haunting (1963)
  • The Haunting (1999)
• A Haunting in Venice
• The Haunting of Whaley House
• Hausu
• Heart and Souls
• Hell House LLC
  • Hell House LLC
  • Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel
  • Hell House LLC 3
  • Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor
• Hello Mary-Lou: Prom Night II
  • Prom Night III: The Last Kiss
• HEX
• High Spirits
• Hour of the Wolf
• House
  • House II: The Second Story
  • The Horror Show
  • House IV
• Housebound
• House Of Bones
• House on Haunted Hill (1959)
  • House on Haunted Hill (1999)
  • Return to House on Haunted Hill
• I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
• I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
• Imprint
• The Innkeepers
• The Innocents
• The Invisible
• In Your Afterglow
• It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To
• Jack Frost (1998)
• Ju On
  • The Grudge
• Just Like Heaven
• Kairo
• Kill, Baby, Kill!
• Killer Toon
• Kuroneko
• Kwaidan
• Lady In White
• Last Night in Soho
• Last Shift
• Left for Dead
• Lemon Tree Passage
• Lizzie Borden's Revenge
• The Locals
• The Lovely Bones
• Malevolent (2018)
• Mama
• The Messengers
• Michael Jackson's Ghosts
• Mr. Harrigan's Phone
• Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait
• Nekrotronic
• Night of the Scarecrow
• Night of the Templar
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
  • Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
  • Freddy vs. Jason
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
• Nightwish
• Nightworld: Lost Souls
• Nine Lives (2002)
• Odd Thomas
• The Oracle
• The Orphanage
• The Others (2001)
• The Pact
• Paheli
• Paranormal Asylum
• Paranormal Prison
• Phone
• Pitfall (1962)
• Pizza
• Poltergay
• Poltergeist (1982)
  • Poltergeist II: The Other Side
  • Poltergeist III
• Practical Magic
• Prison
• The Pumpkin Karver
• R.I.P.D.
• The Ring
  • The Ring Two
  • Rings
• Robo Vampire
• Sadako vs. Kayako
• Scalps
• Scarecrow (2002)
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
• Scream (1981)
• The Screaming Skull
• Scrooged
• Séance
• Shall We Play?
• The Shining
  • Doctor Sleep
• Shutter
• Silent Tongue
• The Sixth Sense
• Sledgehammer (1983)
• Sleepy Hollow (1999)
• Spirited (2022)
• Star Wars
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Return of the Jedi
  • The Last Jedi
  • The Rise of Skywalker
• Stir of Echoes
• The Stone Tape
• Superstition
• Susie Q
• Sweet Home (1989)
• A Tale of Two Sisters
• Tales of Halloween
• Thir13en Ghosts
• Tigers Are Not Afraid
• The Tooth Fairy (2006)
• Topper
  • Topper (1953 Remake)
  • Topper (1979 Remake)
  • Topper Takes a Trip
  • Topper Returns (1941)
  • Topper Returns (1973)
• Tormented (1960)
• Tormented (2009)
• Tower of London (1962)
• Tower of Terror
• Trick or Treat
• Trilogy of Terror
• Truly, Madly, Deeply
• The Turning
• Twice-Told Tales
• Two Thousand Maniacs!
• Ugetsu
• Umma
• The Unborn
• Unfriended
• The Unholy
• Uninhabited
• The Uninvited (1944)
• The Uninvited (2009)
• V/H/S/2
• The Wailing
• A Wakefield Project
• The Ward
• We Are Still Here
• We Have a Ghost
• What Lies Beneath
• Whispering Corridors
• White Noise
• Winchester
• Witchboard
• Witchouse
• The Woman in Black
  • The Woman in Black: Angel of Death

Literature

• Bag of Bones
• The Beaches
• A Boot Stomping a Human Face Forever
• Aunt Dimity
• Best Nerds Forever
• Bone Street Rumba
• "The Canterville Ghost"
• Cemetery Boys
• A Christmas Carol
• Dark Angel (1996)
• Dark Matter (2010)
• Dial-a-Ghost
• Down a Dark Hall
• Duma Key
• Evernight
• Experimental Film
• Expiration Date
• Eyrbyggja Saga
• Factory (published in Instead of Three Wishes)
• ghostgirl
• Ghost Girl (2021)
• Ghostlight
• The Ghost of Philinnion
• Ghosts of the Titanic
• Ghost Squad (1984)
• Ghost Story (The Dresden Files)
• Ghost Story (1979)
• Ghost Roads
• Ghosts Don't Eat Potato Chips
• Ginban Kaleidoscope
• Grave Peril (The Dresden Files)
• The Graveyard Book
• De Griezelbus
• Grounded for All Eternity
• Haunted by James Herbert
  • The Ghosts of Sleath
  • Ash (2012)
• Hanabishi Fusai no Taima-chou
• Haunting Christmas Tales
• The Haunting of Hill House
• Heart-Shaped Box
• Hell House
• Horrorstör
• How to Sell a Haunted House
• InCryptid^note In the same universe as Ghost Roads
• Jade Green
• Joyland
• Lamplight
• "Lenore"
• The Intruders
• "John Charrington's Wedding"
• Kieli
• KOA Campfire Stories
• "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
• The Little Stranger
• Lockwood & Co.
• Look for Me by Moonlight
• The Lovely Bones
• The Magic Cottage
• May Bird
• Mouse (2017)
• Nanana's Buried Treasure
• Night of the Necromancer
• Nina Tanleven
• Odd Thomas
• A Place So Wicked
• Psychic Detective Yakumo
• Rain of the Ghosts
• Remember Me (1989)
• Return of the Living
• "Rip Van Winkle"
• The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
• Sanctuary
  • Scary Stories to Read When It's Dark
• Seance Tea Party
• The Secret of Crickley Hall
• The Shining
• Spellbinder (1996)
• Too Bright to See
• Topper
  • Topper Takes a Trip
• The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus
• The Turn of the Screw
• When Marnie Was There
• When the Angels Left the Old Country
• Whispers From The Dead
• The Woman in Black
• The Wreck of the Lodewijk
• Wuthering Heights

Live-Action TV

• 49 Days
• Afterlife (2005)
• Amazing Stories (2020): "The Heat" centers on two young women, one of whom helps the other out as a ghost upon her death.
• American Gothic (1995)
• American Horror Story: Murder House
• Anjaan: Special Crimes Unit
• Are You Afraid of the Dark?
  • "The Tale of the Phantom Cab"
  • "The Tale of the Lonely Ghost"
  • "The Tale of Laughing in the Dark"
  • "The Tale of the Hungry Hounds"
  • "The Tale of the Prom Queen"
  • "The Tale of Locker 22"
  • "The Tale of the Frozen Ghost"
  • "The Tale of the Whispering Walls"
  • "Tale of the Shiny Red Bicycle"
  • "The Tale of Old Man Corcoran"
  • "The Tale of the Midnight Ride"
  • "The Tale of the Apartment 214"
  • "The Tale of the Dream Girl"
  • "The Tale of the Quicksilver"
  • "The Tale of the Water Demons"
  • "The Tale of the Quiet Librarian"
  • "The Tale of Cutter’s Treasure - part 1"
  • "The Tale of Cutter’s Treasure - part 2"
  • "The Tale of the Room for Rent"
  • "The Tale of the Fire Ghost"
  • The Tale of Train Magic
  • "The Tale of the Dead Man’s Float"
  • "The Tale of the Jagged Sign"
  • "The Tale of Station 109.1"
  • "The Tale of Prisoner's Past"
  • ''The Tale of C7"
• Bedlam
• Being Human (UK)
  • Being Human (US)
• Black
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • "I Only Have Eyes For You"
• Cheo Yong
• Chuck Finn
• Dani's Castle
• Dark Shadows
• Deadbeat
• Dead Boy Detectives
• The Dead Files
• Dead Gorgeous
• Dead Last
• Encantadia
• The Fades
• Ghost Adventures
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• Ghost Hunters
• Ghosts (UK)
• Ghosts (US)
• Ghost Story
• Ghost Stories
• Ghost Stories for Christmas
• Ghost Wars
• Ghost Whisperer
• Ghostwriter
• Ghostwriter2019
• Goosebumps (2023)
• The Haunted Hathaways
• A Haunting
• The Haunting of Bly Manor
• The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
• Hotel Beau Séjour
• Hotel del Luna — a fancy five-star hotel is actually an Afterlife Antechamber
• Julie and the Phantoms
• Ju-On: Origins
• Kambal, Karibal
• Kamen Rider Ghost
• Lockwood & Co. (2023)
• Marley's Ghosts
• The Midnight Club (2022)
• Medium
• My Mother the Car
• Oh My Ghostess
• Part of Me
• Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
• Providence
• Rentaghost
• The Rising
• Saving Hope
• School Spirits
• Sell Your Haunted House
• Six Feet Under
• So Haunt Me
• Spirited
• Supernatural
• Tales from the Crypt
  • Television Terror
• Topper
• The Twilight Zone (1959)
  • "Long Distance Call"
  • "A Game of Pool"
  • "The Grave"
  • "Deaths-Head Revisited"
  • "Showdown With Rance McGrew"
  • "Young Man's Fancy"
  • "The Changing of the Guard"
  • "The Thirty-Fathom Grave"
  • "Night Call"
• Two Sentence Horror Stories
  • "Legacy"
  • "El Muerto"
• The X-Files
  • "How The Ghosts Stole Christmas"

Pinball

• America's Most Haunted
• Ghostbusters

Tabletop Games

• Geist: The Sin-Eaters
• Mysterium
• Orpheus
• Wraith: The Oblivion

Theater

• Blithe Spirit
• Carousel
• Hamlet
• Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol
• Ride the Cyclone
• Ruddigore

Toys

• Monster High

Video Games

• The 7th Guest
• Afterparty
• AMBER: Journeys Beyond
• At Dead of Night
• Avenging Spirit
• Beyond: Two Souls
• The Blackwell Series
• The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation
• Candiesn Curses
• Casper: Spirit Dimensions
• Clandestiny
• Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.
• Danny Phantom Urban Jungle
• Dark Fall
• The Dead Case
• Dead Realm
• Demon's World
• Detention
• DreadOut
• Eastern Exorcist
• Ebenezer and the Invisible World
• Emily Wants To Play
• Fatal Frame
  • Fatal Frame
  • Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
  • Fatal Frame III: The Tormented
  • Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse
  • Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
  • Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir
• Final Fantasy
  • Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
  • Final Fantasy VII
  • Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
  • Final Fantasy X
    • Final Fantasy X-2
• First Encounter Assault Recon
• Five Nights at Freddy's
• The Forest Quartet
• Geist
• Ghostlore
• GhostControl Inc.
• Ghost Hospital
• Ghost Hunter
• Ghost in the Sheet
• Ghostly Matter
• Ghost Master
• Ghost Tales
• Ghost Trick
• Ghostbusters
  • Ghostbusters (1984)
  • Ghostbusters (1990)
  • Ghostbusters: The Video Game
• Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed
• Ghostwire: Tokyo
• Halflight
• Haunting Starring Polterguy
• Lake Ridden
• The Legend of Dragoon
• The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
• The Lost Crown
• Luigi's Mansion (Series)
  • Luigi's Mansion
  • Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
  • Luigi's Mansion 3
• Mansion of Hidden Souls
• Master Detective Archives: Rain Code
• Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Midnight Ghost Hunt
• Mortal Meal
• Ms. Director
• Murdered: Soul Suspect
• Mermaid Swamp
• Onryo (2020)
• Oxenfree
• Pacify
• Pac-Man
• Paper Dolls
• PAGUI
• Paranormal HK
• Parasite Eve
• Phasmophobia
• Pulang Insanity
• The Rewinder
• Scapeghost
• Sense: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story
• Subway Midnight
• Til Morning's Light
• Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom
• What Comes After
• Why Am I Dead At Sea
• World of Warcraft: Shadowlands

Visual Novels

• Corpse Party
• Dark Nights
• Heart of the Woods
• Kindred Spirits on the Roof
• The Letter
• Moonlight Walks
• Perceptions of the Dead
• Saint Maker
• Slay the Princess (in a few of the available routes)
• Somethings Wrong With Sunny Day Jack
• Spirit Hunter: Death Mark
  • Spirit Hunter: NG
• Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters
• Wicked Lawless Love (Nathan's route)

Web Animation

• Dead End
• My Ghost Friend
• Mystery Skulls Animated
• Sonic: Night of the Werehog
  • Ghost Tale^note A standalone spiritual sequel to Night of the Werehog that features the same characters except for Sonic

Webcomics

• The Bathroom Ghost
• Erma
• Ghosts of the Future
• A Ghost Story
• Guardian Ghost
• Homestuck
• Mieruko-chan
• Nightmarish
• Paranatural
• Rise From Ashes
• Soil That Binds Us
• The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn
• Undead Friend
• Unlife Is Unfair

Web Original

• SCP Foundation
• Tall Tales

Web Videos

• Becoming Human
• vintage eight

Western Animation

• The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
  • The Legend of Korra
• Beetlejuice
• Boos in the Nite
• Casper the Friendly Ghost
  • There's Good Boos Tonight
  • Casper and the Angels
  • Casper's First Christmas
  • The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
  • Casper's Scare School
• Dexter's Laboratory
  • Filet Of Soul
• Danny Phantom
• Dude, That's My Ghost!
• Filmation's Ghostbusters
• Frankelda's Book of Spooks
• The Funky Phantom
• The Ghost and Molly McGee
• Ghost Force
• Ghost Wanted
• Ghostbusters
  • The Real Ghostbusters
  • Extreme Ghostbusters
• Hit-Monkey
• Minnie the Moocher
• Obituary: A Grave Beginning

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