Seaward is Brad Leithauser's 1993 novel about Terry, whose life is transformed when he sees what he believes to be the ghost of his wife, who drowned the previous year. Although Terry is a changed man, he is confused as to exactly what has brought about the change.

Shirley Jackson's 1949 collection, "The Lottery" and Other Stories, is an eerie group of stories set in a world where nothing is at it seems. In the title story—Jackson's most famous work and some say one of the scariest stories of the twentieth century—a small town conducts a frightening and terrible yearly ritual.

Many say that Daphne du Maurier' s 1938 classic novel, Rebecca, is a variation of the Cinderella tale. At the great Cornwall estate of Manderley, the timid second wife of Maxim de Winter lives with the haunting legacy...