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Ghost stories

  • Where the ghosts are : a guide to Nova Scotia's spookiest places
    Author:
    Vernon, Steve
    Summary:

    If you're from Halifax, you've probably heard that the Five Fisherman Restaurant is supposedly haunted, and that Georges Island is overrun with ghosts. If you're from Nova Scotia, you probably know about rumours of buried...
  • The turn of the screw
    Author:
    James, Henry
    Summary:

    A governess is hired to look after two orphaned children living at their absentee uncle’s grand estate and soon becomes convinced that her charges are controlled by the ghosts of the former governess and her lover. Famous for its rich...
  • The Turn of the Screw
    Author:
    James, Henry
    Summary:

    One of the most daunting ghost stories to ever be written, Henry James' The Turn of the Screw follows the transformation of Miles (age 10) and Flora (age 8) from well-behaved children to deceitful liars. When a governess comes to their...
  • The Truth Against the World
    Author:
    Stevenson, Sarah Jamila
    Summary:

    When Olwen Nia Evans learns that her family is moving from San Francisco to Wales to fulfill her great-grandmother’s dying wish, she starts having strange and vivid dreams about her family’s past. But nothing she sees in her dreams of...
  • The swallow : a ghost story
    Author:
    Cotter, Charis
    Summary:

    In 1960s Toronto, two girls retreat to their attics to escape the loneliness and isolation of their lives. Polly lives in a house bursting at the seams with people, while Rose is often left alone by her busy parents. Soon they discover...
  • The skeleton in the closet : the southern ghost hunter mysteries, volume 2
    Author:
    Fox, Angie
    Summary:

    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 someone… even a dead someone… must have witnessed the crime. Her...
  • The secret keepers
    Author:
    Yee, Paul
    Summary:

    In this novel set in San Francisco`s Chinatown before and after 1906, young Jackson Leong has to not only cope with the ghost of his brother who died in the earthquake, but also the mysterious ghost of a young woman who is haunting the...
  • The scream museum
    Author:
    Zindel, Paul
    Summary:

    Tom the janitor has been accused of murdering the head biologist at New York City's Museum of Natural History. But teenaged sleuths P.C. Hawke and his partner Mackenzie know Tom couldn't be the real killer, so they begin...
  • The scarlet tide : book 3
    Author:
    Osborne, Stephen
    Summary:

    Sequel to Animal Instinct A Duncan Andrews Thriller, Book Three Duncan Andrews, a private detective who specializes in paranormal cases, is back, along with his usual gang. Robbie Church, his boyfriend, is a ghost. Gina, a centuries old...
  • The next room
    Author:
    HARRISON, Sarah
    Summary:

    Fee's new life is plagued by unexpected events and "happenings". Who is the mysterious baby with the dark curly hair? Who or what was holding her hand at the museum? Is someone watching her every move?
  • The mystery of Ireland's eye
    Author:
    Peacock, Shane
    Summary:

    Dylan is twelve years old and embarking on his first ocean kayaking trip with his parents. He has spent the last year convincing them that he is ready for the challenging-and very dangerous-adventure. In fact, he has been determined to...
  • The mirror
    Author:
    Ellis, Bell
    Summary:

    When Vic Ledore buys an antique mirror only to find it’s haunted, his initial fear turns to intrigue when he realizes he and the ghost wear the same face. The mirror is possessed by Philippe Montmarche, a vagrant who lived in early-...
  • The legend of Sleepy Hollow
    Author:
    Irving, Washington
    Summary:

    Washington Irving weaves a bewitching tale with hints of the gothic to expose a darkness pervading social stratification in 19th-century America. In Irving’s best-known short story, a teacher vying for the hand of a wealthy socialite...
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    Author:
    Irving, Washington
    Summary:

    The most beloved and oft-adapted work by Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow follows a love triangle in the New York countryside in 1790. Sleepy Hollow, a supposedly haunted glen on the outskirts of Tarry Town, is home to a...
  • The haunting of Maddy Clare
    Author:
    St. James, Simone
    Summary:

    Sarah Piper is sent to assist ghost hunter Alistair Gellis, who has been summoned to investigate the spirit of nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare. Soon Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle, for Maddy’s ghost is real, she is angry...
  • The haunted heist : the southern ghost hunter mysteries, volume 3
    Author:
    Fox, Angie
    Summary:

    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...
  • The ghost
    Author:
    STEEL, Danielle
    Summary:

    Charles Waterston's marriage ends abruptly and he is sent to work in New York. He visits the country before his job starts, and ends up staying in a haunted chateau where he learns to let go of the past and move into a liberating...
  • The elevator ghost
    Author:
    Huser, Glen
    Summary:

    When Carolina Giddle moves into the Blatchford Arms, no one knows what to make of her sequin-sprinkled sneakers and her trinket-crusted car. But the parents are happy there’s a new babysitter around, and Carolina seems to have an...
  • The Dead Kid Detective Agency
    Author:
    Munday, Evan
    Summary:

    Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town, short on friends, and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher. Naturally, she spends most of her time in the Sticksville Cemetery, which just happens to border her backyard...
  • The bone collector's son
    Author:
    Yee, Paul
    Summary:

    Thirteen-year-old Bing-wing Chan must conquer his fear of ghosts as his father’s gambling debts force him to dig for human bones in a graveyard and then to work as a houseboy in a haunted house. Set in Vancouver’s Chinatown The Bone...

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