This essay is a narratological analysis of the tropes and features of three ghost stories, all from the Victorian era. It examines how each is used for the purposes of literary realism, more precisely to illustrate the socio-historical context of their creation. These narrative aspects consist of perspective, characters, locations and finally ghosts. The end goal of performing this kind of analysis is to prove two points. Firstly, that a narratological examination is possible on such an unconventional subject matter as the ghost story, and secondly, and more importantly, that literary realism can be conveyed by this seemingly non-realist literary genre.