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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 25 cm
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...
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The ghost story has long been a staple of world literature, but many of the genre's greatest tales have been forgotten, overshadowed in many cases by their authors' bestselling work in other genres. In this spine-tingling anthology, little known stories from literary titans like Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton are collected alongside overlooked works from masters of horror fiction like Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A timid boy named Tom reluctantly agrees to help professional ghostbuster Hetty Hyssop dispel an IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) from an old house.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the scariest book ever! Or so claims its melodramatic ghost narrator. You can go ahead and turn the page, but don't expect him to come with you. He is a big scaredy-cat!"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Fred the ghost is perfectly happy haunting his ramshackle New Orleans house until Pierre and his daughter Marie move in and turn the house into a restaurant.
Author
Series
Rose (Holly Webb) volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With help from a mysterious ghostly mirror which once belonged to her mother, Rose seeks to discover who her real family is. Were they full of magic too, like her?"--
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and chilling night. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing doctor. When she finally arrives, shaken, at the hall she is greeted by the two children in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There are no parents, no...
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 57
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
114 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sammy Jacobs is very interested in ghosts and science fiction much to the dismay of his parents who are research scientists, but when he somehow acquires an invisible friend, he realizes that the supernatural is not all that much fun.
51) Nightspell
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sent by her father, the king of Raellia, who is trying to forge an empire out of warring tribes, Darri arrives in Ghostland and discovers that her sister, whom she planned to rescue, may not want to leave this land where the dead mingle freely with the living.
52) Old devil Wind
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
1993.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
On a dark and stormy night one object after another joins in making eerie noises in the old house.
54) Ghost stories
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 5
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tiffany Aching, the witch of the Chalk, seeks her place amid a troublesome populace and tries to control the ill-behaved, six-inch-high Wee Free Men who follow her as she faces an ancient evil that agitates against witches.
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