# Convince me to read your favorite Ghost story

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 31, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-me-to-read-your-favorite-ghost-story/262462 "2004-08-31T20:37:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-me-to-read-your-favorite-ghost-story/262462/21 "2004-09-15T00:41:37Z")

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For just one page, and not really _about_ ghosts (though they do appear), but supernatural and chilling, look [here](http://www.bartleby.com/126/55.html).

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convince-me-to-read-your-favorite-ghost-story/262462/22 "2004-09-19T23:06:27Z")

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> [@Freejooky](#):
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> Try [House of Leaves](http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/3725375/detail.html) by Mark Z. Danielewski. It’s written as a “report” on the events that “happened,” so it feels so real that it’ll scare the hell out of you. Parts shook me up so bad that I couldn’t read it at night.

Actually, that’s just about the least scary “horror” story I’ve ever read. Only 1 1/2 pages of it are even mildly frightening. I do like that Poe (his sister) has parts of it in song on her Haunted cd, though.

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