Marley from A Christmas Carol just kind of wants to rattle his chains and hang out.
Moaning Myrtle isn't trying to murder anyone. Not every literary ghost is creepy, to be fair. So here are 13 of the creepiest, spookiest ghosts that literature has to offer. But when you're home alone, late at night, and you think you see a shape just out of the corner of your eye-suddenly ghosts are the most terrifying (and plausible) of things that go bump in the night. They aren't as gross as zombies, and they certainly aren't as annoying as those guys running around dressed as killer clowns. Now, I know that ghosts aren't quite as sexy as vampires or werewolves.
And boy is literature full of ghost stories.
October is the official month of candy corn and creepy ghost stories.
