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Nancy Holder
The It Girl meets The Exorcist in this chilling, haunted boarding school tale New-girl Lindsay discovers all is not right at the prestigious Marlwood Academy for Girls. Ethereal, popular Mandy and her clique are plotting something dangerous. Lindsay overhears them performing strange rituals, and sees their eyes turn black. It doesn't help that the school itself is totally eerie, with ancient, dila
Say Her Name
James Dawson, Juno Dawson · 284 pages
Roberta 'Bobbie' Rowe is not the kind of person who believes in ghosts. A Halloween dare at her ridiculously spooky boarding school is no big deal, especially when her best friend Naya and cute local boy Caine agree to join in too. They are ordered to summon the legendary ghost of 'Bloody Mary': say her name five times in front of a candlelit mirror, and she shall appear ... But, surprise surprise
The Turning
Francine Prose
"A teen boy becomes the babysitter for two very peculiar children on a haunted island in this modern retelling of The Turn of the Screw"--
The Forest Demands Its Due
Kosoko Jackson · 432 pages
Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints
Cullen Bunn · 152 pages
Young Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts and monsters -- the countless haints of Harrow County. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures -- and to the land itself -- in ways she never could have imagined.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
William L. Hedges · 358 pages
Originally entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", this collection of essays, sketches, and tales established Washington's reputation as America's foremost professional author. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are classics of American fiction and display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture. This volume also contains a number of gently ironic
The House of Lost Souls
F.G. Cottam · 343 pages
The spookiest novel you will read this year - a thrilling masterpiece. Not to be read before going to sleep!.
The Ghost Prison
Joseph Delaney · 92 pages
"Fifteen-year-old Billy guards a castle prison. But it isn't just criminals he'll be guarding--the ghosts of executed prisoners haunt the place"-- Fifteen-year-old Billy guards a castle prison but soon realizes that it isn't just criminals he's guarding because the ghosts of executed prisoners haunt the place.
The Invited
Jennifer McMahon · 399 pages
The Dreaming, Vol. 2
Queenie Chan · 192 pages
Greenwich Private College grinds to a complete halt after the discovery of Millie's body. As gloom and despair sets in, most of the students leave the school. But Jeanie's curiosity keeps her on campus, and when she's led down the path of the Greenwich's dark history, has she awakened a ghostly curse?"Effectively creepy..." - animefringe.com"Rated: Must Read. The Dreaming is worth the cover price
The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
Sarah Monette · 253 pages
An unwilling foray into necromancy makes Booth attractive to the creates who roam the darkness of the world. Ghouls, ghosts, and incubi single him out as one of their own in these ten stories.
Ghosts by Gaslight
Peter S. Beagle, Terry Dowling, Garth Nix, Gene Wolfe, Margo Lanagan, Sean Williams, Robert Silverberg, John Harwood, Richard Harland, Marly Youmans, Theodora Goss, Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Paul Park, Jeffrey Ford, James K. Morrow, John Langan · 389 pages
A collection of steampunk and supernatural tales that breathes new life into the Victorian and Edwardian ghost story for a new generation of readers.
The Black
D.J. MacHale · 405 pages
Cooper Foley, who has a knack for getting into trouble, ends up in the middle of a border war between the worlds of the living and the dead, trying to find out about the mysterious Morpheus Road.
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert · 504 pages
The Winter Spirits
Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley, Jess Kidd, Andrew Michael Hurley, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Catriona Ward, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-Chapman · 464 pages
THE DAZZLING SECOND GHOST STORY COLLECTION FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON, NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.'Terrific - every bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANFeaturing new and original stories from:Bridget Collins Imogen Hermes Gowar Kiran Millwood Hargrave Andrew Michael Hurley Jess Kidd Natasha PulleyElizabeth Macneal Laura Purcell Susan Stokes-Ch
The Haunted and the Haunters
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Ghost Hunt, Vol. 2
Shiho Inada, Fuyumi Ono · 208 pages
The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
E.F. Benson, Richard Dalby · 624 pages
A collection of horror stories - not only ghosts - by one of the early masters of the genre. Most are set in southern England, but there are stories also set in Scotland, the Alps and Egypt.
House of Shadows
Darcy Coates · 282 pages
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
William Hope Hodgson · 134 pages
An English Ghost Story
Kim Newman · 315 pages
A dysfunctional British nuclear family seek a new life away from the big city in the sleepy Somerset countryside. At first their new home, The Hollow, seems to embrace them, creating a rare peace and harmony within the family. But when the house turns on them, it seems to know just how to hurt them the most, threatening to destroy them from the inside out--Page 4 of cover.
Cold Moon Over Babylon
Michael McDowell · 256 pages
16-year-old Margaret Larkin is found murdered: tied to her own bicycle and drown in the Styx River where her parents died in an accident ten years before. Her murderer, wealthy and insane Nathan Redfield, believes he got away with the crime. But soon he begins to see not only the ghost of Margaret, but other watery spirits that pursue him. The fever of a guilty conscience? Encroaching insanity? Or
The Haunted School
R.L. Stine · 120 pages
Tommy Frazer, a new student at Bell Valley Middle School, gets lost while trying to find his way back from the art room and stumbles onto a horrifying secret that has been hidden in the school for fifty years.
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
Martyn Waites · 336 pages