Bonnie Jo Campbell Recommends Her Favorite Literary Ghost Stories
As a kid, I got easily spooked. We lived on the edge of a creaking, bubbling, swampy-dark woods; at night, my mom sang “The Unquiet Grave,” a haunting folksong where a young woman begs her dead lover to speak to
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Author's childhood fear
The author, Bonnie Jo Campbell, recalls being easily frightened as a child, growing up near a dark, swampy forest.
Her mother sang a haunting folk song called The Unquiet Grave, where a woman begs her dead lover to speak to her.
The song’s eerie effect left a lasting impression.
Campbell later became a skeptic, believing real dangers come from living people, not ghosts.
Despite this, she became a fiction writer, focusing on realistic stories about plausible characters and situations.
Her latest novel, The Spirits (W.W.
Norton, 2026), explores themes of guilt and memory, set during a Christmas Eve gathering on the ninth anniversary of a family tragedy.
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