TES Global
Tes: Schemes of Work: Prose. Ghost Stories
[Free Registration/Login Required] This series of 13 lessons explores the horror/ghost film genre. Students will culminate the study by writing their own ghost stories.
Nagoya University (Japan)
Nagoya University: Victorian Ghost Stories: "The Body Snatcher"
This Nagoya University site provides the text to Robert Louis Stevenson's ghost story "The Body-Snatcher." Provides other interesting Victorian ghost stories at this site also.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Teaching the Epic Through Ghost Stories
This lesson plan uses the oral tradition of ghost stories (anchored in the Gothic) as a means of explaining the oral tradition of the epics. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of Three Ghost Stories
The complete e-text to the Charles Dickens ghost stories is provided at this site.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
This lesson plan explores the scaring methods employed by Gothic literature and ghost stories. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "My Own True Ghost Story" by Rudyard Kipling
Text of the short story "My Own True Ghost Story" by Rudyard Kipling. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Etext
This famous "Ghost," story is especially popular around Halloween. Read the original version by Washington Irving here.
British Library
British Library: Frankenstein: Discovering Literature Resources
Delve into the science of life and death, take a ghost story writing challenge, watch videos on the Gothic, and even look at locks of the Shelleys' hair with these resources. [PDF]
Crayola
Crayola: Mystery Flip Flap (Lesson Plan)
A great activity where students write their own mysteries-with a creative twist. Provides a list of resources, and adaptations. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with Crayola.com. Registration is free and takes only a few...
Fantastic Fiction
Fantastic Fiction: w.w. Jacobs: Detailed Bibliography
This site provides bibliographies of science fiction writers, and found here is a thorough bibliography of works by W.W. Jacobs, including novels and short stories.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of the Haunted Man
This site provides the complete e-text for the Charles Dickens story, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain.
Other
David Perdue's Charles Dickens Page: "A Christmas Carol"
Part of a larger site dedicated to helping readers understand and appreciate Charles Dickens and his writing, this section is on "A Christmas Carol." Here you'll find not only the plot of the story, but also explanatory notes about some...