#Spookybooksbywomen: Eine kurze Empfehlungsliste zum #spooktober

These are some of my favorite novels about witches and ghosts by female writers:

https://mojoreads.com/book/Living-Alone-Dodo-Press-Stella-Benson/12507525

Stella Benson, Living Alone (1919): set during WW1; a witch stumbles into the meeting of a charitable committee and proceeds to turn the committee members' lives upside down...

https://mojoreads.com/book/Lolly-Willowes-Or-the-Loving-HuntsmanSylvia-Townsend-Warner/12045924

Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes (1926): a middle-aged spinster moves to a country village to escape her controlling relatives and takes up the practice of witchcraft.

https://mojoreads.com/book/ThornyholdMary-Stewart/11942345

Mary Stewart, Thornyhold (1988): a young woman inherits her dead cousin's house as well as her reputation among the local community as a witch. As she soon finds out, this is no normal community...

https://mojoreads.com/book/We-Have-Always-Lived-in-the-CastleShirley-Jackson/1346860

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962): Merricat Blackwood lives alone with her older sister and their ailing uncle in a crumbling mansion after the rest of the family has been poisoned...

https://mojoreads.com/book/The-Little-StrangerSarah-Waters/829448

Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger (2009): a country doctor is called to Hundred Hall, home of the Ayres family, where a poltergeist seems to be in residence.

https://mojoreads.com/book/The-Haunting-of-Hill-House-Movie-Tie-In-Shirley-Jackson/18728923

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (1959): An investigator of the occult assembles a group of people at Hill House in order to find evidence of supernatural phenomena. Soon, strange things start happening...

https://mojoreads.com/book/The-DivinersLibba-Bray/961382

Libba Bray, The Diviners (2012): 1920s New York is haunted by the ghost of a fanatic serial killer; 17-year-old Evie and her friends have to use their psychic powers to stop him from committing more murders...