1. Washington Irving’s The Headless Horseman (1820 short story)
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- The Headless Horseman (1922)
- Disney’s The Adventure of Ichabod (1949)
- Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (1999)
- Headless Horseman (2007)
2. Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera (1909 novel)
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- Phantom of the Opera (1925)
- Universal’s The Phantom of the Opera (1943)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
- The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
3. Haunted Houses
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- The Uninvited (1944)
- The Innocents (1961)
4. Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959 novel)
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- House on Haunted Hill (1963) (Vincent Price)
- The Haunting (1999)
5. Stephen King’s Ghost Stories
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- The Shining (1980)
- Doctor Sleep (2019)
6. Poltergeist
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- Poltergeist (1982)
- Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
- Poltergeist III (1988)
- Poltergeist (2015)
7. Ghostbusters
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- Ghostbusters (1984)
- Ghostbusters II (1989)
- Ghostbusters (2016)
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
8. The Conjuring
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- The Conjuring (2013)
- The Conjuring 2 (2016)
- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)