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"In the town of Night Vale, there's a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone's home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from... until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe, a nautical adventure with...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James is an unlikely producer of ghost-stories. An eminent scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic surroundings of Eton and Cambridge, his classic supernatural tales have lost none of their power to unsettle and disturb. They draw on the terrors of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings...
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Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 4
Language
English
Description
Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.
5) The Clackity
Author
Series
Blight Harbor volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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To rescue her aunt from the ghost of a serial killer, twelve-year-old Evie Von Rathe embarks on a journey into a strange world filled with hungry witches, ghosts, and a story thief, all while trying to fulfill her deal with the Clackity.
6) Pony
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English
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Twelve-year-old Silas is awoken in the dead of night by three menacing horsemen who take his father away. Silas is left shaken, scared, and alone, except for the presence of his companion, Mittenwool...who happens to be a ghost. When a pony shows up at his door, Silas makes the courageous decision to leave his home and embark on a perilous journey to find his father. Along the way, he will face his fears to unlock the secrets of his past and explore...
8) Storm
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Frances - you can call her Frankie - was not a happy baby. She was born amidst chaos, to two loving but unprepared parents. On a beach. In a storm. No wonder she's always had a temper. And you know what did nothing to quell her anger? Dying dramatically in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town. As a ghost, it's not so easy for Frankie to hide her rage, especially when suspicious visitors to her ruined home seem to have a keen and...
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Copper Inskeep holds Windydown Vale's deepest and darkest secret: he is the ghoul that haunts the Vale, donning a gruesome costume to scare travelers and townsfolk away from the dangers of the surrounding swamps. When a terrified girl claims she and her father were attacked by a creature--one that could not have been Copper--it threatens not just Copper's secret, but the fate of all Windydown"--
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"When 12-year-old Max is sent to live with his eccentric grandfather for the summer, he finds himself on an unlikely quest to uncover an enchanted book that contains the key to defeating an unearthly nemesis."--
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Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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The Lake District, 1899. The Earl is dead and cruel Cousin Clarence has inherited everything. Twelve-year-old Lady Agatha Asquith is cast out of Gosswater Hall to live in a tiny, tumbledown cottage with a stranger who claims to be her father. Aggie is determined to discover her real identity, but she is not alone on her quest for the truth. On the last day of the year, when the clock strikes midnight, a mysterious girl of light creeps through the...
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Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A creepy, mysterious dollhouse takes center stage in this atmospheric middle-grade mystery for fans of Doll Bones and Small Spaces. Alice's world is falling apart. Her parents are getting a divorce, and they've cancelled their yearly cottage trip -- the one thing that gets Alice through the school year. Instead, Alice and her mom are heading to some small town where Alice's mom will be a live-in nurse to a rich elderly lady. The house is huge, imposing...
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Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 20
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Desmond and best friend Andres attend the town's birthday celebration with a petting farm, bumper cars, cotton candy machines, and ghosts, but mostly this Kersville Town Clown Extravaganza is full of creepy clowns of all kinds.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 15
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Desmond and Andres find themselves in a sticky situation when a new type of bubble gum starts to consume Kersville--literally!
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Thirty-two short stories chosen from the tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America, featuring witches, walking dolls, hungry skeletons, skinwalkers, and other supernatural beings.
18) Friends for life
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Francis Meredith is a boy who is interested in fashion and costuming, which has made him a target at school, but when he meets Jessica and Andi his life begins to change--Andi is an athletic girl with a reputation for fighting and family in the fashion business, and Jessica is a ghost who has no idea how she died.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Jane has lost everything: job, mother, relationship, even her home. A friend calls to offer an unusual deal―a cottage above the crashing surf of Big Sur on the estate of his employer, Evan Rochester. In return, Jane will tutor his teenage daughter. She accepts. But nothing is quite as it seems at the Rochester estate. Though he’s been accused of murdering his glamorous and troubled wife, Evan Rochester insists she drowned herself. Jane is skeptical,...
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Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 14
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the ice cream man takes a vacation during a very hot summer in Kersville, best friends Desmond and Andres search for a substitute, with frightening results.
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