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"Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan -- merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded vicar's daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family's lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin Adam one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados, a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned. When...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's The Unwritten Book explores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. Each chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the forest, the towering library of all those books we'll never...
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Sometimes Verity Long would like to forget that she lives with the ghost of a 1920s gangster. But the reluctant housemates must once again work together when a dead detective blackmails Frankie into helping him solve a Great Gatsby-era cold case. Before she can say "bathtub gin," Verity is dragged straight into a raging, otherworldly house party. Worse, every guest is hiding something. Meanwhile, Ellis Wydell, Verity's living, breathing boyfriend...
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Ghost hunter Verity Long is overdue for a little R & R (rest and romance) with her boyfriend, Ellis, and a vintage train trip through the Tennessee mountains seems like just the ticket. The Sugarland Express carries history and nostalgia in every compartment, and Verity is determined to enjoy it--without ghostly interference. But the ghosts have other plans. On a dark, desolate night nearly a century ago, the train was stranded in the mountains, and...
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Scarier and stranger than any multiplex horror movie, Weird Encounters features more than 75 supernatural stories contributed by writers from across the country. This chilling anthology tells of "Historic Haunts, " and "Hostel Environments" and conjures up a host of phantasms, paranormal pranksters, and devilishly destructive spirits - like the deceased owner of an Illinois inn whose ghost gets fresh with his female patrons and the bridge in Mississippi...
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Boxcar children volume 141
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"In the town of Sleepy Hollow, the Aldens discover an old legend that's come back to life! Their friend's ghost-tour business is being disrupted by a spooky figure on horseback who throws pumpkins in the streets and frightens everyone. Has the headless horseman returned to haunt the town? The Boxcar Children must find out before the ghost tours are ruined!"--Jacket flap.
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Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
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v, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"From one of the most popular web series on the internet, Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara's BuzzFeed Unsolved Supernatural includes 101 of the spookiest locations in the USA, including exclusive content brand-new to the book"--
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Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2015]
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121 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.
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English
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When you answer a classified ad for help wanted at a warehouse that stores movie props, little did you know that the phrase "graveyard shift" referred to more than the hours you'd be working. Facing innumerable bloodthirsty ghosts as well as the FBI employees who hunt them, it is up to you to make sure you make it through the summer to another semester!
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"A haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe ... even a dead someone ... must have witnessed a crime. Her ghostly sidekick Frankie warns her to stay out of it. The very alive, very handsome deputy sheriff, Ellis Wydell, inadvertently places her directly in the middle of it. And her ex-fiancé, Ellis's brother, is back with an agenda...
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Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
97 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 36 cm.
Language
English
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"Join famous monster hunter Van Helsing on a trip around the globe to find haunted castles, restless spirits, terrifying dragons, wicked witches, and more. Learn the defining characteristics of each beast, where it can be found and--most importantly--how to defeat it."--Provided by publisher.
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Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
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127 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Kaz and Claire take a trip downtown, hoping to find Kaz's long-lost uncle. Instead, they meet a group of ghosts who live in the movie theater. But soon the ghosts start mysteriously disappearing! Who or what is chasing them away? And can Kaz and Claire bring the ghosts back?"--
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English
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Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to turn-of-the-century Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin. When the clues she finds lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a postmortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However, she never expected her personal quest would reawaken the...
56) The dark
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the outskirts of a small town lies Devil's Den, a mysterious tract of woods where many have entered but no one has ever left. The local rumor is that the spirit of a young girl who was horrifically murdered there haunts and hunts in this dense forest, brutally slaying anyone who dares to step into her terrain. When a man with a dark past crosses her path, a series of events are set in motion that may lead to a peculiar kind of redemption for two...
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Publisher
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
vii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the farmer who finds a Cavern of Skulls to a moonshiner who makes a deal with a water demon, and the Half Shaved ghost seeking vengeance to the first (and only) meeting of the Asheville Ghost Club, the Great Smoky Mountains and its foothills abound with spooky tales"--
58) The dead end
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Poison apple books volume 1
Language
English
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"Casey Slater can't believe her bad luck. Instead of the perfect summer vacation she'd planned, Casey is in a remote country town, where her parents are restoring an old, creaky, creepy house. Worst of all, everyone in town thinks the house is haunted. Soon Casey thinks so, too--a vase explodes, a china cabinet falls over on its own--and it seems like the ghost doesn't want them there. Casey thought she'd be dying of boredom, but now she's scared...
59) Creepy castles
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Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the eleven creepy castles in this book, meet the spirit of a queen who carries her head as she wanders, a deadly prince who kills his enemies by piercing them with sharp poles, and other nefarious characters and situations.
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