Needing Ghosts is a novella written by Ramsey Campbell. It was first published as a chapbook in 1990. It was reprinted in the 1993 collection Strange Things and Stranger Places, in the 2002 anthology Keep Out the Night, edited by Stephen Jones, in the 2019 anthology The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories, edited by Jones, and in the 2021 collection The Village Killings & Other Novellas.