The Haunting is a low fantasy novel for children written by Margaret Mahy of New Zealand and published in 1982, including a U.K. edition by J. M. Dent. Atheneum published the first U.S. edition in 1983. Mahy won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. The Haunting of Barney Palmer, a New Zealand movie based on the book, was released in 1987.