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The Night Strangers
by Chris Bohjalian
After he crashes his plane into Lake Champlain, killing most of the passengers, Chip Linton moves into a new home with his wife and twin daughters and soon finds himself being haunted by the dead passengers, all while his wife wonders why the strange herbalist denizens of the town have taken such an interest in her daughters.
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Deep Down
by Deborah Coates
A sequel to Wide Open finds Hallie Michaels confronting visions of harbingers from the underworld that reveal harrowing dangers from deputy Boyd Davies's past and threats to Hallie's own safety, a situation that compels her entry into the realm of Death.
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Maybe This Time
by Jennifer Crusie
Entreated by her ex-husband to help with two orphans recently placed in his custody, closure-seeking Andie discovers the task to be much harder than anticipated in light of the orphans' delinquent antics, a haunting and Andie's rekindled feelings.
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True Love
by Jude Deveraux
After inheriting a nineteenth-century Nantucket house, Alix Madsen gets drawn into the unsolved disappearance of a woman two hundred years ago and begins to have feelings for Jared Montgomery, who lives in the property's guesthouse.
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Snowblind
by Christopher Golden
Twelve years after a horrible blizzard that tore families apart, a New England town faces the approach of another deadly winter storm in this new ghost story from the best-selling author of The Myth Hunters.
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Phantom Evil
by Heather Graham
Heading a group of paranormal investigators for the government, Jackson Crow--part English, part Cheyenne--uses his link to the realm of spirits to help solve the mysterious death of a senator's wife with the help of Angela Hawkins, a police officer with paranormal intuition.
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The Ghost Writer
by John Harwood
Plagued with unpleasant memories of his mother's death, shy Gerard Freeman is obsessed with the manuscript of a century old ghost story written by his great-grandmother and entrusted to his care.
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The Séance
by John Harwood
Growing up with a distant father and a mother in perpetual mourning for a lost child, Constance Langton takes her mother to a séance in the hope of helping her find peace, only to confront the tragic consequences of that decision as she is left alone to deal with a legacy of a decaying mansion in rural England and the mysterious disappearance of a family at the estate.
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Heart-Shaped Box
by Joe Hill
A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, from a cannibal cookbook to a used hangman's noose, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet, which turns out to be the vengeful spirit of his late girlfriend's stepfather.
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20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill
The winner of the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and International Horror Guild Awards, a compilation of imaginative, surreal, and macabre short fiction by the author of Heart-Shaped Box includes the tales of Imogene, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater, and Francis, an unhappy, hopeless human turned giant locust seeking revenge on his Nevada hometown.
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The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story
by Susan Hill
A new tale by the author of the Simon Serrailler mysteries follows a Cambridge professor's revelation of a mysterious painting's eerie secret and power to demonically possess the minds of people who stare at it.
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The Mist in the Mirror: A Ghost Story
by Susan Hill
In an attempt to learn more about the great pioneering traveler Conrad Vane, gentleman adventurer Sir James Monmouth sets off for the remote Kittiscar Hall where the supernatural takes hold and binds their lives together in a way he could have never imagined.
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The Woman in Black
by Susan Hill
A classic ghost story set in a small English community follows the experiences of an up-and-coming solicitor who while endeavoring to settle a deceased client's affairs is haunted by bizarre phenomena before he is approached by a ghostly figure.
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The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
Dr. Montague, an occult scholar, and his team--Theodora, his assistant; Eleanor, a fragile young woman with a close acquaintance with the paranormal; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House--conduct an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
The classic ghost story about a high-strung governess and the two young children who may--or may not--be plotting with the diabolical Peter Quint.
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Collected Ghost Stories
by M. R. James
A complete collection of James published ghost stories includes "Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad" and "Casting the Runes" as well as three previously uncollected tales, in an anthology that offers insight into the writer's background, three short articles about the ghost story genre and discussions of his literary references.
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First Grave on the Right
by Darynda Jones
Using her ability to see ghosts in her work as a private investigator, Charley Davidson begins experiencing intense sensual dreams about a mysterious entity that has been following her throughout her life. The first novel in a series.
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The Uninvited Guests
by Sadie Jones
While fighting to save their family home, Charlotte prepares for an elaborate birthday celebration for her daughter Emerald--an event that unexpectedly turns into a dramatic evening that forever changes all of their lives.
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Bag of Bones
by Stephen King
Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, grieving widower Mike Noonan returns to his former Maine getaway, only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations.
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Duma Key
by Stephen King
After suffering a crippling accident and ending his marriage, Edgar Freemantle rents a house on the Florida coast, where he creates works of art that lead him to discover unsettling elements from his landlady's enigmatic family history.
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Joyland
by Stephen King
In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
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The Shining
by Stephen King
Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them. Followed by Doctor Sleep.
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The Talisman
by Stephen King
A hardcover re-release of the iconic collaboration by the best-selling genre masters finds 12-year-old Jack Sawyer embarking on a fantastical quest in a menacing parallel world, where he searches for a mystical Talisman and encounters twin counterparts of the people he knows in his own universe.
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What's a Ghoul to Do?: A Ghost Hunter Mystery
by Victoria Laurie
When medium M. J. Holliday and her partner Gilley are hired by gorgeous Dr. Steven Sable to investigate his grandfather's apparent suicide at the family lodge, they discover a vast array of ghostly witnesses--all of whom have a story to tell. First in a series.
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A Cold Season
by Alison Littlewood
Moving to the bucolic village of Darnshaw after the battlefront death of her husband, website designer Cass bonds with a substitute teacher and is dismayed by local hostility and her teenage son's growing animosity during an increasingly savage winter that pits her against incomprehensible dark forces.
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Floating Staircase
by Ronald Damien Malfi
To Travis and Jodie Glasgow, the house in the idyllic small town seems perfect, the surrounding woods and lake like a postcard. But soon after they move in, things begin to change. Strange noises wake Travis at night. His dreams are plagued by ghosts. Barely glimpsed shapes flit through the darkened hallways--shapes bearing a frightening resemblance to a little boy. Footprints appear. Strangest of all are the wooden stairs rising cryptically from the lake. The more Travis investigates, the more he uncovers the house's violent and tragic past and the more he learns that some secrets can't be buried forever.
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Graveminder
by Melissa Marr
When her grandmother Maylene, who always gave tender attention to the dead with unusual rituals, dies mysteriously, Rebekkah Barrow returns home and discovers that Maylene was murdered and that there was good reason for her odd traditions.
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The Ghost of the Mary Celeste
by Valerie Martin
Writing a short story inspired by the unsolved disappearance of a merchant vessel's crew, unproven young writer Arthur Conan Doyle stirs up a sensation involving a Philadelphia medium, a journalist who would expose the medium as a fraud, and the ship captain's grieving family.
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Hell House
by Richard Matheson
Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newspaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death. Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.
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The Winter People
by Jennifer McMahon
Coming of age in an old farmhouse, 19-year-old Ruthie begins a search for her agoraphobic mother and discovers the century-old diary of the farmhouse's long-ago resident, a grieving mother who died under mysterious circumstances. By the best-selling author of Island of Lost Girls.
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The Bones of You
by Gary McMahon
Adam Morris moves into a cheap rental property in the suburbs. He's divorced and now only sees his daughter, Jessica, every other weekend. He's a broken man trying to start a new life. When strange events start to occur in the run-up to Halloween, Adam suspects there's a link to the old, abandoned house next door. Soon he learns about a dead killer named Katherine Moffat and the terrible things she did to her victims in the cellar. As Adam uncovers more details regarding past events in the house next door, he realizes that he and Jessica might be in real danger. Before long, he is caught up in a mortal struggle to prevent the lingering influence of 'Little Miss Moffat' from destroying everything he has tried so hard to protect. This is a story about ghosts, a dead serial killer, and a man struggling to be a good father to his young daughter.
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The Winter Ghosts
by Kate Mosse
Traveling through the French Pyrenees to process the horrors of World War I, Freddie meets a lovely young woman also in mourning with whom he exchanges stories that unravel a centuries-old mystery. By the award-winning author of Labyrinth.
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Delia's Shadow
by Jaime Lee Moyer
An award-winning ethereal romance follows the story of Delia Martin, who hides an ability to interact with ghosts and who is inundated by help-seeking spirits after the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 before meeting the desperate ghost of a man whose serial murderer has never been caught.
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Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel
by Audrey Niffenegger
After they inherit a London flat near Highgate Cemetery from their aunt Elspeth Noblin, two American twin teenagers, Julia and Valentina, move in and get to know their quirky neighbors, but they soon discover that much is still alive at Highgate, including, perhaps, their aunt, who can't seem to leave her old apartment or life behind. By the best-selling author of The Time Traveler's Wife.
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Rooms: A Novel
by Lauren Oliver
After Richard Walker dies, leaving behind a vast country estate, his estranged family arrives for their inheritance, while long-dead former residents bound to the house observe the family and reminisce about their past lives--until both the human and spirit worlds collide.
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Doomed
by Chuck Palahniuk
A follow-up to the best-selling Damned continues the afterlife adventures of snarky Madison Spencer, who wanders Earth as a ghostly spirit in search of her do-gooding celebrity parents while fighting the influence of Satan, encountering her grandfather at a fetid highway rest stop and confronting her destiny on a plastic Pacific continent known as Madlantis.
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Relic
by Douglas J. Preston
Investigating a series of savage murders that are disrupting a massive new exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, graduate student Margo Green finds a clue in a failed Amazonian expedition.
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The Demonologist
by Andrew Pyper
Winning acclaim for his expertise in demonic literature including Milton's Paradise Lost, Columbia professor David Ullman travels to Italy and witnesses a startling phenomenon that challenges his skepticism before his 12-year-old daughter is targeted by a demonic enemy that would claim him as a messenger. By the award-winning author of Lost Girls.
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Greywalker
by Kat Richardson
Small-time PI Harper Blaine's revival after being clinically dead due a savage assault leaves her with the strange ability to see vampires, ghosts, and other creatures, a power that drags her into a sinister supernatural world in this novel from a national best-selling author.
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Help for the Haunted
by John Searles
Struggling with the loss of her parents, who helped haunted souls find peace, Sylvie Mason pursues the mystery, moving closer to the truth of what happened that night as she comes to terms with her family's past and uncovers secrets that have haunted them for years.
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The Lovely Bones: A Novel
by Alice Sebold
The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened. A first novel.
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Sinister Entity
by Hunter Shea
The Leigh family is terrified. They’ve been haunted by the ghostly image of their young daughter, Selena. But how can that be, when Selena is alive and well, and as frightened as her parents? With nowhere else to turn, the Leighs place their hopes in Jessica Backman, who has dedicated her life to investigating paranormal activity. Accompanied by a new partner who claims to able to speak to the dead, Jessica will soon encounter an entity that scares even her. And a terror far worse than she imagined.
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Best Ghost and Horror Stories
by Bram Stoker
Readers can sample Stoker's mastery in this treasury of fourteen spine-tingling stories. Not all the selections deal with the ghostly and supernatural, but they are always bizarre, and some—like "The Squaw" and "The Burial of the Rats"—are equal to Poe at his best. In addition to these two masterly tales, the collection includes "The Crystal Cup," "The Chain of Destiny," "The Castle of the King," "The Dualists" (probably Stoker's most horrifying story), "The Judge's House," "The Secret of the Growing Gold," "A Dream of Red Hands," "Crooken Sands," "Dracula's Guest," and three more.
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Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
Questions arise concerning the connections between a strangely detached young girl's captivity in a seedy Florida motel, a death that occurs at a party for a visiting actress, and a young California instructor's obsession with one of his students.
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Mrs. God
by Peter Straub
Published for the first time in a stand-alone volume, this haunted-house tale from the best-selling author of Mystery, Shadowland and The Talisman finds a professor rethinking his invitation to study private poetry manuscripts at the not-quite-right Esswood House.
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The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
by Diane Setterfield
Having spent six decades creating a series of alternate lives designed to bring her fame and fortune while hiding the truth about her tragic past, reclusive and enigmatic Vida Winter finds herself torn by young Margaret Lea's simple request for the truth about her own birth. A first novel.
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The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
After being summoned to treat a patient at dilapidated Hundreds Hall, Dr. Faraday finds himself becoming entangled in the lives of the owners, the Ayres family, and the supernatural presences in the house.
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Return to Tradd Street
by Karen White
Struggling to complete renovations on her house on Tradd Street before the baby arrives, single mother and psychic realtor Melanie Middleton seeks help from the man who broke her heart when a series of hauntings plaguing her house turn violent.
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The Diviners
by Libba Bray
The award-winning author of Beauty Queens presents an evocative mystery in New York City of the Roaring 20s, where Evie O'Neill immerses herself in the world of glamorous Ziegfield girls and speakeasies before helping her uncle, a folklore museum curator, solve a rash of occult-based murders.
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Anya's Ghost
by Vera Brosgol
Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school, but when she falls down a well and makes friends with the ghost there, she thinks she's found just what she needs--or has she?
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The Presence: A Ghost Story
by Eve Bunting
Haunted by memories of the car accident that ended her best friend's life, 17-year-old Catherine seeks reassurance from a mysterious medium until she discovers that nobody else seems to see him and that he is connected to a string of disappearances.
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Texas Gothic
by Rosemary Clement-Moore
Struggling to separate herself from her family's heritage of witchcraft, Amy Goodnight visits her eccentric aunt's ranch during a summer that becomes marked by ghosts, suspicious deaths and a gorgeous cowboy neighbor whom she seems to encounter everywhere she goes.
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Unraveling Isobel
by Eileen Cook
When seventeen-year-old Isobel's mother marries a man she just met and they move to his gothic mansion on an island, strange occurrences cause Isobel to fear that she is losing her sanity as her artist father did.
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Give up the Ghost
by Megan Crewe
Sixteen-year-old Cass's only friends are her dead sister and the school ghosts who feed her gossip that she uses to make students face up to their bad behavior, but when a popular boy asks for her help, she begins to reach out to the living again.
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Wherever You Go
by Heather Davis
Feeling lost after the accidental death of her boyfriend, Rob, 17-year-old Holly eventually pursues a tentative relationship with Rob's best friend, unaware that Rob's jealous ghost is watching over them and communicating to her through her Alzheimer's-stricken grandfather.
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The Blue Girl
by Charles De Lint
Having moved to a new town, Imogene is determined to make things go well for herself in her new town and find friends to help her in her mission, but when she is befriended by a ghost named Adrian and becomes haunted in her dreams, Imogene must turn to friend Maxine and Pelly for help in ridding her nights of dark visions.
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Notes from Ghost Town
by Kate Ellison
Contacted by a ghost who implores her to solve his murder, a girl receives clues on notes that bring her closer to home than she expected and force her to make a terrifying choice. By the author of The Butterfly Clues.
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Monstrous Beauty
by Elizabeth Fama
In alternating chapters, the story tells of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with a ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.
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The Unquiet
by Jeannine Garsee
Hoping for a fresh start at a new high school, bipolar Rinn is accepted into a popular circle and falls for cute boy-next-door Nate before learning a local legend about a ghost girl, a story that tempts Rinn to discontinue her medications so that she can discern the truth from the spectral voices she hears.
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School Spirits
by Rachel Hawkins
A spin-off story from the best-selling author of the Hex Hall series features feisty monster-fighting heroine Izzy Brannick, who relocates to a new town after the work-related disappearance of her older sister only to tackle a bizarre series of hauntings at her new high school, where she develops a crush and resists trusting new friends.
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Daylight Saving
by Edward Hogan
Expecting little from a forced sports vacation with his depressed alcoholic father, Daniel is unexpectedly entranced by a smart-talking fellow guest who bears mysterious cuts and bruises and with whom Daniel is targeted by a mysterious ghostly figure.
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Ghostgirl
by Tonya Hurley
After dying, high school senior Charlotte Usher is as invisible to nearly everyone as she always felt, but despite what she learns in a sort of alternative high school for dead teens, she clings to life while seeking a way to go to the Fall Ball with theboy of her dreams. The first book in a series.
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Beating Heart: A Ghost Story
by A. M. Jenkins
Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old Evan moves with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a teenager who died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover.
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The Name of the Star
by Maureen Johnson
Rory, a teenager from Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved in the highly unusual investigation. Followed by Madness Underneath.
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Shattered Souls
by Mary Lindsey
When a Texas high school student starts hearing voices, she assumes she is schizophrenic like her father, but instead she finds out that she is a "Speaker," who can communicate with the dead in order to help their troubled souls find resolution.
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Drawing the Ocean
by Carolyn MacCullough
A gifted artist, Sadie is determined to fit in at her new school in Connecticut, but her deceased twin brother Ollie keeps appearing to her, seeming to want something. By the author of Stealing Henry.
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Velveteen
by Daniel Marks
Velveteen, who was murdered at sixteen, has difficulty adjusting to her current existence in purgatory, preferring to plot revenge against her killer, which could have dire consequences for purgatory and for her.
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Lightbringer
by K. D. McEntire
Possessing an ability to see the restless ghosts of young people, Wendy forfeits friendships and her own well-being to help an increasing number of souls and eventually meets Piotr, a Guardian of the Lost who spent decades in a dangerous invisible world where ghosts reclaim their power while feeding dark forces.
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Hourglass
by Myra McEntire
Developing an ability to see ghosts after the deaths of her parents, Emerson despairs of receiving professional help and is disturbed by a ghost who knows frightening things about her until Emerson's brother calls in Michael Weaver, a consultant from a mysterious organization called the Hourglass.
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Beyond: A Ghost Story
by Graham McNamee
Everyone thinks 17-year-old Sara has attempted suicide more than once, but Sara knows the truth: her shadow is trying to kill her.
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Far Far Away
by Tom McNeal
After his mother left and his father became a recluse, Jeremy Johnson Johnson (whose mother and father both had the same last name) was left to support the family, but he's been aided by the ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of the infamous Brothers Grimm writing duo, and when provocative local girl Ginger Boultinghouse takes an interest in Jeremy (and his unique abilities), a grim chain of events is put into motion.
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The Turning
by Francine Prose
Enduring a summer babysitting job on an isolated island without Internet or cell phone service, Jack struggles to retain his sanity in the face of dark revelations and malevolent dangers that only he can see. By the author of the National Book Award Finalist, Blue Angel.
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Asylum
by Madeleine Roux
A tale presented in the style of an integrated photo-novel finds intellectual misfit Dan arriving at a summer college prep program for gifted students and being required to sleep in a crumbling former psychiatric hospital, where he and his friends uncover disturbing secrets about the asylum's dark past. By the author of Allison Hewett Is Trapped.
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Bellman & Black: A Ghost Story
by Diane Setterfield
Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.
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Intertwined
by Gena Showalter
Reluctantly hosting the souls of four supernatural beings in his mind, midwesterner Aden Stone struggles for a normal life before befriending three fellow teens, including a girl who helps him to quiet his powers, a werewolf shape-shifter, and a vampire princess. The first book in a series.
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Shade
by Jeri Smith-Ready
Teenaged Aura of Baltimore, Maryland, reluctantly works at her aunt's law firm helping ghosts with wrongful death cases file suits in hopes of moving on, but it becomes personal when her boyfriend dies and persistently haunts her. The first in a series.
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The Raven Boys
by Maggie Stiefvater
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix
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The Dream Thieves
by Maggie Stiefvater
While Ronan struggles with intensifying and pervasive dreams triggered by the resurrected ley lines around Cabeswater, Ganey's search for clues to a local puzzle is threatened by dangerous adversaries.
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The Hollow
by Jessica Verday
High-school junior Abbey struggles with the loss of her best friend Kristen, who vanished on a legendary bridge, but her grief is eased by Caspian, an attractive and mysterious stranger she meets in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery. The first book in a series.
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The Black Butterfly
by Shirley Reva Vernick
Penny's skepticism about ghosts, love, and family change when her ghost-hunting mother sends her to a "friend's" inn in Maine for Christmas, where Penny confronts her own supernatural gift, an alluring boy, and staggering family secrets.
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Ashes to Ashes
by Melissa Walker
The first entry in a two-part story follows the experiences of Callie, whose life is cut short by a tragic accident and whose spirit travels to an ethereal plane where a striking ghost guides her efforts to bring peace to her loved ones and where she uncovers a dark secret about the agendas of malevolent spirits who are willing to do whatever it takes to stay on Earth.
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Absent
by Katie Williams
Seventeen-year-old Paige Wheeler died in a fall off the high school roof and now her spirit seems bound to the school grounds, along with Brooke and Evan, two other teen ghosts who died there—but maybe if she can solve the mystery of her apparent suicide they will all be able to move on.
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In the Shadow of Blackbirds: A Novel
by Cat Winters
In San Diego in 1918, as the deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, 16-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must consider if ghosts are real when her first love, killed in battle, returns.
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Paper Valentine
by Brenna Yovanoff
Haunted by the ghost of the best friend who died six months earlier, Hannah reluctantly investigates a mysterious string of murders during a spooky summer season also marked by Hannah's romance with petty criminal Finny Boone. By the best-selling author of The Space Between.
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The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier
Irish orphans Molly, 14, and Kip, 10, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and the secrets of the cursed house. By the author of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes.
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Doll Bones
by Holly Black
Playing an endless make-believe game about pirates, mermaids and warriors under the rule of a formidable Great Queen china doll, best friends Zach, Poppy and Alice find their bond tested when Zach is compelled to give up their shared adventures and Poppy begins having dreams about the doll. By the co-author of the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles.
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Honk!
by Dotti Enderle
Ten-year-old Malcolm's favorite day is when his science magazines arrive and in one of them, he spies an advertisement for an Ecto-Handheld-Automatic-Heat-Sensitive-Laser-Enhanced Specter Detector. With their gadget, Malcolm and his best friend Dandy meet ghosts and ghouls all around their neighborhood and begin their new careers as Ghost Detectors!
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Ghost Knight
by Cornelia Caroline Funke
Relocating to a new boarding school only to be confronted by a group of vengeful ghosts, Jon and his friend, Ella, team up to uncover a centuries-old murder and summon the ghost of a medieval knight who they are not sure can be trusted.
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The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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Picture the Dead
by Adele Griffin
After Jennie Lovell's fiancé, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.
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All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
While spending the summer at their grandmother's Vermont inn, two prankster siblings awaken young ghosts from the inn's distant past who refuse to "rest in peace."
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The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
by Mary Downing Hahn
Anticipating a better life in the English countryside manor house of her aunt and uncle, 12-year-old orphan Florence is astonished to discover the ghost of her cousin, who concocts a plan to use Florence to achieve murderous goals. By the author of Closed for the Season.
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The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Diana and her brother Georgie have been living a cursed existence in the woods behind the old Willis place, but when a new caretaker comes to live in the decrepit mansion, Diana will dare to reveal herself in an effort to make a new friend and free herself and Georgie from their predicament.
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Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
In his great-aunt's old house, Andrew Joseph Tyler's fantasies of ancestors and ghosts become real with the appearance of another Andrew, who died young at the beginning of the century, and whose life Andrew Joseph may be able to prolong--at some risk to himself.
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The Haunting of Granite Falls
by Eva Ibbotson
When twelve-year-old Alex MacBuff's Scottish castle of Carra is sold, dismantled, and moved to Texas at the request of Helen Hopgood, the daughter of American millionaire Hiram C. Hopgood, the ghosts that raised Alex from a child have difficulty relocating.
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The Girl behind the Glass
by Jane Kelley
Moving from Brooklyn to a house in the country strains the relationship between twins Hannah and Anna, a situation made worse by the ghost of a girl who is trapped in the house because of problems with her own sister years before.
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The Screaming Staircase
by Jonathan Stroud
When London is overrun by malevolent spirits, a talented group of young psychic detectives compete against other ghostbusting agencies in the debut of a new series that finds three intrepid colleagues investigating one of England's most haunted houses.
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The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing
by Sheila Turnage
When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, the Desperado Detectives—aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale—open a paranormal division to discover the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash.
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The Whispering House
by Rebecca Wade
When the Price family moves into Cowleigh Lodge while their home is being repaired, 14-year-old Hannah discovers that the ghost of a girl who died there at the age of 11 wants help unraveling the mystery of her 1877 death.
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Graveyard Shift
by Chris Westwood
In an alternative London, Ben Harvester is recruited by a secret organization responsible for shepherding lost souls to the afterlife, but soon learns there is a more sinister soul-hunting organization that now considers him an enemy
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The Moonlight Man
by Betty Ren Wright
When their father moves them for the seventh time in the five years since their mother's death, Jenny and her younger sister hope to stay in this latest house and try to find out about the malevolent ghost who seems bent on getting revenge on their elderly neighbors.
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Ghost of the Southern Belle: A Sea Tale
by Odds Bodkin
A young boy must challenge LeNoir, the ghost of a sunken ship's captain, in order to save other ships from being raced to their doom in the stormy seas.
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Haunted Houses Handbook
by Mónica Carretero
A descriptive, creatively illustrated storybook for curious youngsters imagines the qualities of a haunted house and what it might be like to live in one, sharing a range of engaging thematic activities. By the award-winning creator of The Pirates Handbook.
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Skeleton Hiccups
by Margery Cuyler
Skeleton has a severe case of hiccups and cannot get rid of them no matter what he tries, yet his friend, Ghost, has one last suggestion that he is sure will scare them right out of his boney system.
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Three Little Ghosties
by Pippa Goodhart
Three mischievous ghosts, who love scaring little children, find the tables turned when the children decide to take matters into their own hands.
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How to Get Rid of Ghosts
by Catherine Leblanc
Describes different way to handle ghosts, including weaving big spider webs to trap them, punishing them by making them write lines, and blowing them away with a hair dryer.
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Woo!: The Not-So-Scary Ghost
by Ana Martín Larrañaga
Tired of being told what to do, a young ghost runs away, but after a scary day, he decides that he is happier at home.
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Ghost in the House
by Ammi-Joan Paquette
Slip-sliding his way through a haunted house, a little ghost is joined by a shuffling mummy, a happy little monster and other ghoulish friends before discovering the scariest creature in the house.
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Never Say Boo!
by Robin Pulver
When Gordon, a ghost, moves to a new school, everyone is afraid of him until they learn that he is not as scary as they thought he was.
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