Essential ghost stories?

>>9841349
Turn of the Screw
Hamlet

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>>9841349

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
>No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box is pretty good desu

Christmas Carol, at the very least as a representation of the genre's origin