You might do well to look up the works of Barbara Michaels, with perhaps Ammie Come Home as a starting point. She is better known nowadays under her other byline, Elizabeth Peters, for her mysteries -- most especially the Amelia Peabody series. Under the Michaels name she published a good many novels of what used to be called "romantic suspense" - about two-thirds involving ghosts and supernatural themes, the other third being historicals. All are excellent, though the ghosts are largely felt rather than seen, these books having been written long before today's paranormal conventions made themselves felt. (There is one novel under the "Elizabeth Peters" byline, Devil-May-Care, that is also in this vein but with a darkly comic touch.)
For a more direct supernatural element, but in a similar overall style, there is a quite readable quartet of novels beginning with Ghostlight under Marion Zimmer Bradley's byline (actually written mostly by Rosemary Edghill). While each of the four stands alone, there's also an overall storyline that develops over the course of the cycle.
One other: not creepy/scary in the least, but one of my all-time favorite ghost stories: The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope, nominally published as a young-adult title a good many years back. The ghosts are from the American Revolution, the "modern-day" plot takes place on a country estate where the nearest telephone is at the general store in town, and the characters are entirely charming. [How can one not be won over by a gentleman-rogue whose given name is Peaceable Drummond Sherwood?]
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Date: 2011-07-20 02:43 am (UTC)For a more direct supernatural element, but in a similar overall style, there is a quite readable quartet of novels beginning with Ghostlight under Marion Zimmer Bradley's byline (actually written mostly by Rosemary Edghill). While each of the four stands alone, there's also an overall storyline that develops over the course of the cycle.
One other: not creepy/scary in the least, but one of my all-time favorite ghost stories: The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope, nominally published as a young-adult title a good many years back. The ghosts are from the American Revolution, the "modern-day" plot takes place on a country estate where the nearest telephone is at the general store in town, and the characters are entirely charming. [How can one not be won over by a gentleman-rogue whose given name is Peaceable Drummond Sherwood?]