Psst! I've released the ghosts
A short recording from earlier this year
With All Hallows’ Eve on the horizon…
I’ve unlocked the first podcast I made back when Voracious had half a dozen subscribers (thanks, friends). It’s a short episode about the cluster of middle-grade novels featuring a ghost or haunted object published in Australia last year. Scroll down to listen. And if you have a favourite ghostly tale, let me know in the comments.
But wait, what’s this?
It seems the appetite for ghostly stories continues in 2023. Here are some I’ve spotted.
Listen here:
Books mentioned
Gus and the Starlight by Victoria Carless
A Girl Called Corpse by Reece Carter
The Ghost Locket by Allison Rushby
Honour Among Ghosts by Sean Williams
The Vexatious Haunting of Lily Griffin by Paula Hayes
The Deadly Daylight by Ash Harrier
The Goodbye Year by Emily Gale
Ghost stories for different age groups
Picture Books:
The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon by Aaron Blabey
There’s a Ghost in This House by Oliver Jeffers
Gustavo, the Shy Ghost by Flavia Z. Drago
How To Make Friends With a Ghost by Rebecca Green
Ghosts in the House by Kazuno Kohara
Chapter Books for 5+:
Luna Boo Has Feelings Too: School of Monsters by Sally Rippin
Scaredy-Pug: Diary of a Pug by Kyla May
Novels for 10+:
Spookiest Stories by Paul Jennings
The Turnkey by Allison Rushby
The Endsister by Penni Russon
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Seven Ghosts by Chris Priestly
Graphic novels:
Séance Tea Party by Reimena Yee
Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol
Sheets by Brenna Thummler
Novels for teens:
Razorhurst by Justine Larbalestier
Dreaming of Amelia by Jaclyn Moriarty
Catching Teller Crow by Ambelina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
Non-Fiction:
The Supernatural Survival Guide by George Ivanoff
The World of the Unknown: Ghosts by Christopher Maynard
1980s Nostalgia:
Games by Robin Klein (1987)
The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones (1981)
The Haunting by Margaret Mahy (1982)
Love a cold case?
And while the kids are busy reading those ghost stories, here’s something for us uncanny-obsessed adults: a paranormal cold case called The Battersea Poltergeist (published in 2021, available wherever you get your podcasts).
