The Ghost of Guir House — Charles Willing Beale

If you like your hauntings with a heavy dose of philosophy thrown in, try the spooky but cerebral novella The Ghost of Guir House by American author Charles Willing Beale. A Mr. Henley receives an unusual request for assistance and decides on a whim to try to help out the writer of the letter. That decision leads him to Guir House, a mysterious manse full of strange characters.