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We have always lived in the castle
by Shirley Jackson
Deeply unsettling, this novel about a perverse, isolated and possibly murderous family follows their dramatic struggle with the arrival of a unexpected visitor who interrupts their unusual way of life.
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Scary stories to tell in the dark
by Alvin Schwartz
Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings
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The lottery and other stories
by Shirley Jackson
Twenty-five horror stories feature a town's annual ritual of evil, a woman's search for her fiancee who has disappeared without a trace, a kleptomaniac neighbor, and a tourist living a nightmare in New York City
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The turn of the screw and other ghost stories
by Henry James
"In 'The Turn of the Screw,' one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. It is accompanied here by several more of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all exploring ghosts and the uncanny"
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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 graveyard book
by Neil Gaiman
After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own
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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
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
At the great Cornwall estate of Manderley, Maxim de Winter and his frightened new wife try to live with the haunting legacy of Maxim's first wife, the beautiful and cold Rebecca, who died in a sailing accident
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No one goes alone
by Erik Larson
"Pioneering psychologist William James leads an expedition to a remote isle in search of answers after a family inexplicably vanishes. Was the cause rooted in the physical world...or were there forces more paranormal and sinister at work?"
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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. Reprint. A best-selling novel.
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