Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted

6 best books like Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted (Eric Nuzum): The Swallows, Come Closer, Far From You, The Curiosity Keeper, Beating Heart: A Ghost Story, Out of Skin

The Swallows

Author	Lisa Lutz
ISBN	1984818236

A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences--in a provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files series.

What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want?

It starts with this simple writing prompt...

Come Closer

Author	Sara Gran
ISBN	0425210316

this is short and anything but sweet, somehow managing to pack a whole lot of creepiness into just under 200 pages.

it’s a story of a woman’s disintegration as she is invaded by a demonic presence that insinuates itself into her body and mind, slowly and irrevocably supplanting her free...

Far From You

Author	Tess Sharpe
ISBN	1780621655

Nine months. Two weeks. Six days.

That's how long recovering addict Sophie's been drug-free. Four months ago her best friend, Mina, died in what everyone believes was a drug deal gone wrong - a deal they think Sophie set up. Only Sophie knows the truth. She and Mina shared a secret, but there was...

The Curiosity Keeper

Author	Sarah E. Ladd
ISBN	0718011783

“It is not just a ruby, as you say. It is large as a quail’s egg, still untouched and unpolished. And it is rumored to either bless or curse whomever possesses it.”

Camille Iverness can take care of herself. She’s done so since the day her mother abandoned the family and left Camille to...

Beating Heart: A Ghost Story

Author	A.M. Jenkins
ISBN	0060546077

This house

is mine

and

I am

its beating heart.

She is a ghost: a figure glimpsed from the corner of your eye, a momentary chill, and a memory of secret kisses and hidden passion. He is 17 years old: Evan Calhoun, warm and alive, and ever since moving to this big...

Out of Skin

Author

Emily Carroll

Disturbing. Haunting. Deliciously creepy. The illustrations are beautiful (although now likely to give me nightmares for the foreseeable future) and perfectly fit alongside the sparse text to give off an aura of confusion and terror.

Perhaps not the best thing to read on my own in the dark...