Clean Reads discussion

Hello Clean Reads Friends,
I'm looking for a recommendation for our neighborhood book club. In October we read a ghost story. We've read Rebecca and The Thirteenth Tale. Can anyone recommend a good clean ghost story?
Thanks!
Denise

I just finished a cute regency ghost story The Wedding Ghost! It's a lighthearted romance with a busy-body ghost.

I like the Ghost and Mrs. Muir and The Canterville Ghost.

A Curse Dark As Gold, by Elizabeth C. Bunce. YA fantasy, retelling of Rumpelstiltskin--with ghosts--set in England in the late 1700s.

Fire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne Jones. YA fantasy based on the ballads Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer. No ghosts, but there are supernatural happenings, an evil queen of fairies who demands someone's life as a "tithe to hell," and key events take place in October, especially on Halloween itself.

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. I know that may sound odd to read for October when it is set at Christmastime, but it is very much a ghost story.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. No ghosts, but should meet the creepy factor for an October read, plus plenty of philosophical stuff for discussion, and it's short. Some of his short stories are ghost or horror stories, too.

Many of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories are creepy and/or supernatural.

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare. Has witches, Banquo's ghost, and some apparitions summoned by the witches, plus a bunch of murders.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving. Though it's only a short story. Has the supposed ghost the Headless Horseman.

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte. I think there is a ghost--or strong implication of one--in the framing story. Plus the whole story is kind of bleak.

Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen. Not a ghost story per se, but a satire on the gothic novels popular at the time. The heroine's infatuation with those gothic novels lead her to make some erroneous conclusions--because of her overactive imagination--about the "evil" actions of other characters.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is YA fiction about a boy who is raised by the ghosts in a graveyard. I so enjoyed it a couple of Octobers ago.

Dracula is fabulous...creepy but not too horrible. There's a reason it's a classic. I loved it!

Let us know what you choose! I'd love to hear how your book club likes it.

Thank you so much for your suggestions!

"Picture of Dorian Gray" is nice and creepy. I also enjoyed Roald Dahl's "Ghost stories". A compliation of scary stories with just a touch of scare and nothing that was over the top or too gruesome.

There are a few recommendations for ghost stories by age in this post.

http://www.compassbookratings.com/spo...

Good luck!