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Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shares facts about the locations where calamitous historical events occurred, covering topics ranging from the Tower of London and the torture methods used there, to dungeon life for prisoners, and the most popular poisoning methods.
22) Animus
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The residents of a quiet Japanese neighborhood have slowly come to realize that inauspicious, paranormal forces are at play in the most unlikely of places: the local playground. Two friends, a young boy and girl, resolve to exorcise the evil that inhabit it, including a snaggle-toothed monster. In Animus, a beautiful but spooky young adult graphic novel of everyday hauntings, Antoine Revoy delivers an eerie tale inspired by the Japanese and French...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Verity Long would really like a day off. Between uncovering the culprit who capped her gangster ghost housemate and dodging the bomb her boyfriend just dropped on their relationship, her spiritual calling has gotten complicated. But when she steps out for a little fun at a church fundraiser, she has another mystery on her hands when a family friend plunges from the bell tower. With her pet skunk and a spectral mobster buddy in tow, Verity charges...
27) Cursed grounds
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents eleven cursed places around the world, including a ruined city people are afraid to enter, a rocky creek where a dead woman's spirit is said to drown swimmers, and the frozen grave of a man who lived more than 5,000 years ago.
Author
Series
Publisher
Moose Island Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Southern girl Verity Long, friendship means sitting down to stories and sweet tea on the front porch. For her gangster ghost housemate, it means dragging Verity out to a remote haunted asylum during a raging thunderstorm to do a favor for a long-dead mob boss. But Verity is always ready to help out a friend, even one as eternally eccentric as Frankie. And in the case of Mint Julep Manor, the stakes are too high to refuse. The criminally insane...
Author
Series
Publisher
Moose Island Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just because she can see the dead doesn't mean Verity Long wants to spend her days hunting ghosts. Instead, she's over the moon to land a marketing job at the local bank ... until she finds her new boss dead in the vault. Even her ghost friend, Frankie, knows that's no way to start a career. Glad to let the police take charge, Verity steps aside, bound and determined to keep her ghost sightings to herself. But when she learns the main suspect in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Hayley gets the lead role in a new TV show called Sadie Solves It, she's so excited...even if there are rumors of hauntings surrounding the Silver Screen Studios. It's LA, she thinks--there are ghost stories everywhere! But to her surprise, strange things actually start happening as production ramps up. Lights flicker, cold blasts of air come out of nowhere, and one day the electricity is cut to the studio entirely with no clear cause. Can...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed "The Lost Village," since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left-a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn-have plagued her. She's gathered a small crew of...
32) Scarewaves
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The small town of Beacon Point has always been plagued by eerie local phenomena. It's a town where disappearances are common, strange creatures have been sighted with unnerving frequency, and a ghastly secret lurks in the woods. The adults in town are oblivious to these strange occurrences. Others prefer not to talk or even think about them. But over the course of several terrifying nights, a group of kids will come face to face with the horrors hiding...
34) Southern spirits
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When out of work graphic designer Verity Long accidentally traps a ghost on her property, she's saddled with more than a supernatural sidekick -- she gains the ability to see ghosts. It leads to an offer she can't refuse from the town's bad boy, the brother of her ex and the last man she should ever partner with"--Page 4 of cover
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Love to tell scary stories around the camp fire? Like to solve mysteries? Brave enough to hear the truth about some pretty freaky phenomena? Then cuddle up with this spooky spine-tingler, filled with delightfully frightful true stories of real-life monsters, doomed domains, menacing mysteries, strange disappearances, and so much more. Meet ghosts, ghouls, and zombies. Go inside haunted houses, hidden graveyards, and deadly secret passages. The Fright-o-meter...
36) Sanctum
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Plagued by nightmares from their summer in the Brookline asylum, Dan, Abby, and Jordan return to New Hampshire College for a prospective students weekend, only to find themselves caught in a dark and dangerous mystery"--
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