A gaggle of ghosts from literature

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Nothing adds more excitement to a story than a ghost or two! All of the literary works featured in our quiz include a spectral presence, to give you the shivers!

See if you can correctly identify each ghost from the clues given.

1. In the Canadian classic Anne of Green Gables, Anne imagines that a nearby wood is haunted by this ghost.
2. In Thomas King’s novel Truth and Bright Water, this young ghost is an actual historical figure, the last survivor of the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
3. This Shakespearean ghost appeals to his son to avenge his death.
4. The ghost in this bestselling British series haunts the bathrooms of her former school.
5. This ghost (or his impersonator) frightens a schoolmaster out of town.
6. This ghost carries off a singer and holds her captive in his underground realm.
7. This ghost visits an old miser on Christmas Eve, in the tale by Charles Dickens.
8. In a novel by Jules Verne, this ghost and another character are both in love with La Stilla, an Italian singer.
9. This ghost, who haunts a castle purchased by the Otis family, fails to frighten them, despite his best efforts!
10. After a car accident, this doctor falls into a coma and leaves her body. The man renting her old apartment is the only one who can see her.
  
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