The Girl Who Played with the Ouija Board – William Malmborg
Penny’s porn-star mother dies in a car accident and Penny moves in with her fanatical Catholic aunt. Penny is desperately unhappy until she starts accompanying her cousin Olivia to wild parties full of sex, alcohol, and drugs, without her aunt’s knowledge.
Touching the Ouija board at one of those parties proves to be even worse for Penny than either the loss of her mother or having to live with her fanatical aunt.
“Something was coming for her in the dark, something that she couldn’t get away from.”
Darkness, Tell Us – Richard Laymon
Six college kids are at a party and someone suggests they use the Ouija board. The one that Corie hid in her closet and swore never to touch again after what happened last time.
A spirit called Butler contacts them and promises them a treasure if they follow his directions and go to an isolated place in the mountains.
“Doris said in her menacing voice, “No good can come of it.” Then she chuckled.”
Intersections: Six Tales of Ouija Horror – Various
Sometimes the dead should be left to rest in peace. These six stories are a reminder of that.
In Ghosted, Keisha communicates with her first love through a custom Ouija board. Conrad is trying to help her find someone to replace him in her life.
In Blood Born, Tori is stranded during a deadly snowstorm with her newborn. She’s forced to seek shelter with a strange family in a desolate house. The matriarch uses a Ouija board to talk to her lost love and to rule over her sons.
In Sounds in Silence, angels and demons have turned the world into a scorched battlefield. A mute woman, Lily, finds a Ouija board that offers her protection from the chaos.
In Gallow’s Grove, a psychic uses a Ouija board to contact the victim of a grisly murder. Persephone is determined to debunk the psychic and expose the Ouija board as a hoax.
In The Next Big Thing, a con artist steals a Ouija board that teaches her that messing with dark forces can lead to unexpected consequences.
In Shady, souls are being refused entry to the afterlife. Newly-dead Molly is summoned by a Ouija board and joins with the ghost of a girl she killed in her own car accident to escape Mr Shady, a spirit trying to build his own ghostly army.
“The planchette catapulted from the board like a rocket, and smashed into Brady’s mouth. It split his lip and cracked into his front teeth but didn’t break them.”
Ouija – James Melzer
When Billy Tanner turns 18, his grandmother gives him a Ouija board for his birthday. Billy starts talking to an entity called Sam who gives him the confidence to talk to the girl he’s been pining for and to stand up to his bullies.
But Billy finds out everything has a price.
“One more,” his grandmother said, handing him her gift. It was larger than all the rest, and shaped like a rectangle. Albeit a thin rectangle.
Ouija – Katharine Turner
Elaine thinks the Ouija board is just a game she played with her best friend Debbie. When Debbie says she’s starting to hear strange noises and then dies horribly, Elaine starts using the Ouija board to find out what happened.
This YA novel is also a movie.
“Laine sniffed, staring at the old-fashioned lettering on the board in front of her. This was not her idea of a fun sleepover…”
Ouija – Douglas Lebeck
A mix of teenagers, beer, and a Ouija board results in Kyle Everett being charged with manslaughter. He spends ten years in prison, then the next forty years living in abandoned buildings in the city.
Fifty years after that fateful game, a sadistic murder takes place in a high rise in the city and a suspicious suicide happens in the suburbs. As the bodies start to pile up, Dino Fratelli is on the trail of a serial killer that can do things no human should be able to do.
Is Kyle the killer or the key to solving the mystery?
“H…E…L…L…O, the indicator spelled out, moving slowly from one letter to the next, but picking up speed as it went along.”
Bonus: Jap Herron: A Novel Written From The Ouija Board – Emily Grant Hutchings
A 1917 novel by self-proclaimed medium Emily Grant Hutchings who claimed it was written by Mark Twain, seven years after his death.
Hutchings said that the novel was dictated to her and medium Lola Hays from beyond the grave by the deceased Twain through use of a Ouija board.
Read it free on Project Gutenberg.
