Halloween is upon us! My picks for the Top 10 ghost stories for the first half of the 19th century. You can read them in my annotated anthology: The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849 https://www.andrewbarger.com/best-ghost-stories-1800-1849 10. The Ghostly Visiter; or, The Mysterious Invalid (1833) This anonymous ghost story was published in a "penny dr eadful" magazine in 1833. It is one of the most chilling ghost stories in relation to an incapacitated person for this fifty year