Literature
- Banquo from William Shakespeare's 1606 play Macbeth
- Hamlet's father from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
- The Flying Dutchman, originally from A Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) by George Barrington.
- The Canterville Ghost of Oscar Wilde's popular short story of the same name.
- Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol (The Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Jacob Marley)
- The Dead Men of Dunharrow in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; arguably also the Nazgûl in the same work.
Read more about this topic: List Of Ghosts
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