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61) Deadly gift
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
An outsider in a world of extraordinary wealth, Caer Donahue must learn who can be trusted - and who should be fearedCaer is spending this Christmas among strangers. Brought to Newport, Rhode Island, from her native Ireland to nurse ailing millionaire Sean O'Riley, she's living a life few can imagine. But money can't hide the tension between O'Riley's trophy wife, his paranoid daughter, the eccentric aunt in the attic and the staff members who run...
62) Gallant
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother's journal--which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home--to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn't matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Olivia knows that Gallant...
Author
Series
Scooby-Doo readers volume 20
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
480L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's Halloween in Coolsville and Scooby and the gang are invited to a super-groovy Halloween party!"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After crossing the dry Arizona desert, Sam Flintlock is flat-out desperate. For food. For work. For lodgings. Luckily he finds all three in the country. A very young and pretty heiress, Lucy Cullen, has an unusual proposition for the bounty hunter. She will pay him cold, hard cash to spend one full week in the gothic mansion of her murdered uncle. What's the catch? The place is haunted... Flintlock ain't afraid of the dead. It's the living he's more...
Language
English
Description
Jim Evers is a real estate agent whose latest project is to find a buyer for a huge but dilapidated old house in New Orleans. However, when Evers and his family visits the property before their family vacation, he discovers it's already inhabited by 999 ghosts, none of whom are interested in sharing the space. As the spirits make their displeasure known, Evers and his family, with the help of an eccentric medium named Madame Leota, try to get the...
66) Ghost walk
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Nikki DuMonde's newest employee is standing at the end of her bed at four o'clock in the morning begging for help. It's a joke, right? Besides, as manager of a successful New Orleans haunted-tour company, Nikki doesn't scare easily. But in the light of day, harsh reality sets in as a police officer informs her that Andy was brutally murdered -- at the exact time Nikki swears the distraught woman was in her room. No one believes her except Brent Blackhawk,...
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Sammy gets to be in charge of the family's haunted house next Halloween, he gets right to work, but his family isn't sure they can take a full year of Sammy's spooky tricks.
68) Scent of roses
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elizabeth doesn't believe in ghosts.
But this time she has no choice.
Family counselor Elizabeth Conner isn't sure what to think when Maria Santiago comes to her for help. Pregnant and terrified, Maria claims to be visited each night by the ghost of a little girl, warning her to flee. Her husband, Miguel, a migrant worker at Harcourt Farms in the San Joaquin Valley, dismisses her fears as hormonal changes.
...69) Scary Godmother
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
207 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
While trick-or-treating on Halloween night, Hannah Marie meets her Scary Godmother and a host of creepy creatures who make her welcome on the Fright Side on later Halloweens as well.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Moving to the reputedly haunted Hampton Court Palace of Queen Victoria when her father's untimely death renders her penniless, Indian princess Alexandrina is befriended by three eccentric widows before her faithful lady's maid, Pooki, is wrongly accused of murder.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After his mother's death, eleven-year-old Marcus is sent to live on a small South Carolina island with his great aunt, a reclusive painter with a haunted past. Aunt Charlotte, otherwise a woman of few words, points out a ruined cottage, telling Marcus she had visited it regularly after she'd moved there thirty years ago because it matched the ruin of her own life. Eventually she was inspired to take up painting so she could capture its utter desolation.The...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Much like the hero of his frightening gothic adventure stories, well-known English author Grayson Sherbrooke has his own share of run-ins with peculiar supernatural beings, both good and evil. From his home on the northern coast of England, Sherbrooke leaps into these otherworldly mysteries to find the truth with the help of his son, Pip; his beautiful neighbor, Miranda, and her daughter, P. C.; and an orphan named Barnaby.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists. A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company. It's the perfect venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends, brought back together to celebrate a wedding. A night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare as secrets...
Author
Series
Goosebumps Slappyworld volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
480L
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Riley Shiner is obsessed with a video game based on a real haunted house in his neighborhood. He has played the game so often he knows it by heart, but there's a level he just can't seem to beat. Riley and his twin sister Scarlet know the haunted house is full of monsters and evil spirits, but decide to spend the night there anyway.
Author
Series
Captain Awesome volume no. 8
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Halloween nears, Captain Awesome and Nacho Cheese Man set out to protect Sunnyview from monsters, but when they encounter what may be a real haunted house, they suddenly remember they have homework to do.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Angel Sullivan falls in love with her family's new home--the house at Black Creek Crossing in Roundtree, Massachusetts. But things change as Angel learns a shocking secret about the house: a double murder took place there, and no one has lived at Black Creek Crossing since. As she and her family confront the mounting perils in the house, bizarre events occur in Roundtree: terrible storms strike; inexplicable "accidents" transpire; and rumors...
Author
Series
Twisted journeys volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Your worst fears come true when you're trapped in a very haunted house! Every Twisted Journeys® graphic novel lets YOU control the action by choosing which path to follow. Which twists and turns will your journey take?
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 1
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Little Simon paperback edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When supernatural things start happening in the house timid Andres and his parents just moved into, next-door-neighbor Desmond Cole, eight, comes to the rescue.
80) Batty for black
Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A haunted house contains many black things.