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Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Long before Charles Dickens and Henry James popularized the tradition of supernatural horror, the shadowy nights of winter have been a time for people to gather together by the flicker of candlelight and experience the intoxicating thrill of a spooky tale. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors--all of them master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre--bring the tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding new collection of original spine-tingling...
82) Skeleton hiccups
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ghost tries to help Skeleton get rid of the hiccups.
Author
Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
±Cuando Carlos salió del cuarto me acerqué a la cama, me senté a su lado y me incliné sobre él: sus ojos suplicantes se cruzaron con los míos por última vez. ¿Qué me quería decir? ¿Que lo ayudara a vivir? ¿O que lo ayudara a morir? A vivir, por supuesto, él nunca quiso morirse». Metáfora de la muerte, conciliábulo de espectros y fantasmas, El desbarrancadero cuenta el fin de una casa en medio de un país que se desmorona. Si no la...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Glennon McCue moves into a lighthouse on a mysterious island not found on any maps, he must figure out why those who visit are never heard from again before he and his family fall victim to the island's curse"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Karen Brown's most hypnotic novel to date--gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift. On the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by escaping to an inland college town. There, she is absorbed by a budding romance, relieved by separation from an unstable sister, and disinterested in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences under starry skies. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma's, this is a collection to treasure.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In the late summer of a long-ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. In the space of a few months, Alton Turner Blackwood brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family. Two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino, who stopped Blackwood when he was fourteen, knows his family is the copycat's...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After being visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve, Holly Chase chooses not to mend her spoiled ways, and upon her death discovers her selfishness has caused her to work for eternity as a ghost of Christmas past.
Author
Series
Great illustrated classics volume 226-1
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the story about a miser whose life is changed by Christmas.
94) Ghostcloud
Author
Series
Ghostcloud volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Forced to shovel coal underground in a half-bombed power station, 12-year-old Luke Smith-Sharma discovers his own innate powers with the help of a ghostly girl and is determined to save himself and his friends from a cruel and sinister scheme orchestrated by an evil woman.
95) The other side
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A collection of five romantic novellas involving ghosts includes J. D. Robb's "Possession in Death," in which Lieutenant Eve Dallas is possessed by a victim who is determined to exact revenge against her killer through Eve.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ater Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the- century world by going through a hole in the hedge.
Author
Series
Tom Hawkins novels volume 1
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1727. Tom Hawkins is damned if he's going to follow in his father's footsteps and become a country parson. Not for him a quiet life of prayer and propriety. His preference is for wine, women, and cards. But there's a sense of honor there too, and Tom won't pull family strings to get himself out of debt--not even when faced with the appalling horrors of London's notorious debtors' prison: The Marshalsea Gaol.Within moments of his arrival in the...
Author
Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things.
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