"The Boys' Toilets" by Robert Westall

“The Boys’ Toilets”
By Robert Westall
From Ghost Stories (1988)
Chosen by Robert Westall

Tagline: A haunting collection of supernatural tales.

This is a story about Rebeccah who attends an all-girl school.  When the heat breaks down in the school, Rebeccah and her friends must travel across town to the empty Harvest School across town. The Harvest School used to be a boys school and it is old and super creepy.

The girls are prepared to deal with this inconvenience until, one by one, the girls learn the bathroom is haunted. Rebeccah is the daughter of a minister and has some ideas about how to sort out this ghost.  She confronts it in the stall after it has turned itself into a toilet paper mummy!

"He Walked By Day" by Julius Long

"He Walked By Day" 

by Julius Long

From Spooky Campfire Stories

Edited by Amy Kelley

Tagline: Spooky outdoor tales for all ages.

I’ve returned to Spooky Campfire Stories because this story was very cool.  This type of ghost is not one I have really seen in ghost fiction. 

Karl Rand shows up at a worksite where some men are tarring a road and he asks for work.  He is tall, thin, sickly and scares everyone but he proves to be super strong.  He can work for long hours without a break and he never eats.  The workers call nickname him Shadow and, naturally, they want to know what his deal is. He tells them, very frankly, he’s a ghost.  He needs money for his mom who is very ill.  The workmen aren’t sure if they believe him because he appears real enough but he is so freakin’ creepy!