Books like The ghost behind the wall by Melvin Burgess

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Shirley Jackson’s classic psychological horror, *The Haunting of Hill House*, follows a lonely woman drawn into an abandoned mansion whose malevolent presence ultimately consumes her.

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A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

A young governess in a remote estate discovers that the souls of two children are threatened by the malevolent ghosts of a former governess and her lover.

Three child detectives of a psychic agency in London hunt ghosts that kill adults and can only be seen by kids, using objects linked to spirits to exorcise the dangerous apparitions.

Walter Hartright, a drawing master, becomes entangled with Laura Fairlie, Sir Percival Glyde, and the scheming Count Fosco as questions of identity and madness intertwine in 19th‑century England.

Three teenage friends investigate haunting mysteries, uncover assassins, and welcome a new ally to the paranormal firm Lockwood & Co.

A girl discovers her friends may have been involved in her murder and decides to seek revenge.

When a ruthless crime shakes London's elite, young physician Lockwood enlists paranormal investigator Lucy to uncover hidden sinister truths, thrusting them into a world of dangerous mysteries.

A gripping teen mystery where London is terrorized by murders echoing Jack the Ripper, and a group of school kids take on the challenge of tracking down the killer while confronting chilling supernatural forces.

Set in a crumbling Georgian manor in rural Warwickshire, *The Little Stranger* follows a doctor arriving at a long‑standing family home where a death‑bed patient and chilling supernatural forces intertwine against the backdrop of post‑war Britain.

A young Canadian visitor joins the Alden children as they investigate a missing coin collection in this entry of the Boxcar Children series.

In "The Empty Grave," Lockwood & Co. confronts an unseen menace with the aid of unlikely, ghostly allies, racing toward the moment when the earth‑shattering secret of the ‘problem’ is finally revealed.

**What secrets does the Shadow Market hold?** The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters' world. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past. Follow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Not even Brother Zachariah. This description comes from the publisher. *Ghosts of the Shadow Market* takes place in the Shadowhunter world, the first book of which is *City of Bones*.

A ghost who died in a car crash after stealing $50,000 from a bank communicates with a family through the dreams of a young girl, continuing the chilling tale from "A Secret Window."

A modern children's adaptation of Dickens' classic, where a miserlike figure is visited by three ghosts who recount his past, present, and future, revealing the true spirit of Christmas.

Stoker’s Dracula adapted for the stage, a serious, 19‑century Gothic play that condenses the novel into focused action and dialogue, preserving the original language and horror.

A middle school student moves to a haunted apartment in Ravens Pass, but the town's mysterious past may not be the only thing lurking around.

A ghostly mystery in the coastal town of Spooksville, where a mischievous ghost kidnaps a little boy and causes chaos for Cindy and her brother, Sally's efforts to rescue Neil, and the local villagers who are drawn into the supernatural world of Spooksville.

When the Watson family settles in the coal‑mining town of Stoneygate to care for Kit’s widowed grandfather, his new friend John Askew invites him into the mines, where they play a game called "Death" and confront the ghostly past of generations of miners.

Nora Wilson’s Halloween adventure in her family’s fire‑scarred apartment turns eerie when a new neighbor shares ghost stories, revealing secrets that may be too close to home.

Child psychologist Mina Pearce wrestles with a heatwave and an upcoming marriage while attending a bereavement group. When a grieving journalist asks her to investigate a 13‑year‑old girl's alleged haunting, she trades her cautious research for a chance to gain experience in a remote village steeped in superstition.