"The Green Man" by Kingsley Amis is funny. It's also a ghost story with a mystery to solve. Originally published in 1969, the novel still feels current to me. The main character is likable in that crazy distant relative sort of way where he is fun to watch, but you don't want to get too close. Maurice Allington, the owner of an old inn, appears to be going through a mid-life crisis where his main goal is to have sex with as many of the local women as possible. Unfortunately, his plans get tangled up when the ghost of a seventeenth-century practitioner of the black arts makes his appearance. In the end, Allington's life gets turned upside down. Read it.
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