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Title Author Year
Haunted Houses Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1858
Mr. Macklin’s Jack O’Lantern David McCord 1952
Lenore Edgar Allan Poe 1850
The Waste Land T. S. Eliot 1922
This Light Marc Harshman 2025
The War Against Birthdays Josh Bell 2025
Spring Louise Imogen Guiney 1884
The Pedlar Charlotte Mew 1921
‘How old is Maggie?’ Jennifer L. Knox 2025
Little soul lost, little shining ghost William Archila 2025
Sai Tells a Ghost Story Soham Patel 2024
Ipswich Eugene Field 1906
Ghosts Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1917
The Crypt Seed Jackie Wang 2024
Ghost (or: Anatta 1) Kareem James Abu-Zeid 2016
A Violet Darkness Najwan Darwish 2024
To measure internal activity while it turns all I know to rubble Rusty Morrison 2024
Dear ghosts, because you are dead and restless Julia Bouwsma 2018
Apparitions Georgia A. Popoff 2024
Your People Will Be My People Patricia Jabbeh Wesley 2024

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