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Are you afraid of the dark? volume 1
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Everyone in Southridge knows about the legend of the Gravemother. They know how to leave offerings by the abandoned house she was supposedly murdered in to pacify her. They know better than to trespass on her property. But not everyone believes in the tale--especially not fourteen-year-old Rhett, who lives around the corner from the old mansion. Then it's announced that the Gravemother's place is one of several to be demolished to give way for new...
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IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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HORROR & GHOST STORIES, CHILLERS. In this eerie ghost story, a cruel and greedy man is pursued by an unseen stalker. He can hear the hooves of the specter's horseclippity-cloppity, clippity-cloppity. The faster he rides, the faster the ghost follows, until at last he arrives home. Is he safe at last, or is Ol' Clip-Clop gonna SWALLOW HIM WHOLE?!!!!!. Ages 5+
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Ghost stories by Henry James, M.R. James, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Taylor, Oliver Onions, Saki, Elizabeth Bowen, W.F. Harvey, Shirley Jackson, V.S. Pritchett, Muriel Spark, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Marghanita Laski, Ann Bridge, Penelope Fitzgerald, John Cheever, A.S. Byatt, and Philip Graham.
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"Loxley Fiddleback can see the dead, but the problem is... the dead can see her. Ghosts have always been cruel to Loxley Fiddleback - but none more than the spirit of her only friend, alive only hours earlier. Loxley isn?t equipped to solve a murder: she lives near the bottom of a cutthroat, strip-mined metropolis known as (3z(BThe Hole,(3y(B suffers from crippling anxiety and can't cope with strangers. Worse still, she?s haunted. Loxley swears to...
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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.
10) Hell House
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"For more than 20 years, Belasco House has stood empty. Its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable horror and depravity. All previous attempts to probe its mysteries have ended in murder, suicide, or insanity. But now a new investigation has been launched, bringing four strangers to the Maine mansion in search of the ultimate secrets of life and death. A wealthy publisher, brooding over his impending death, has paid a physicist and two...
11) A shining
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"A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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"When ghost boy Kaz's haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, he meets a real girl named Claire, who lives above the town library with her parents and her grandmother. Claire has a special ability to see ghosts when other humans cannot and she and Kaz quickly form a friendship."--Amazon website.
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Shades of London volume 1
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
14) Glass house
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"From Paul Jessup, best-selling video game designer and award-winning short fiction writer, comes a haunted house novel that opens a door into a world filled with blood and madness."--Publisher's description.
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Laurel Gray Hawthorne's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--until everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
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An inveterate traveller, Sir James Monmouth has spent most of his life abroad. He arrives in England on a dark and rainy night with the intention of discovering more, not only about himself but about his obsession with Conrad Vane, an explorer. Warned against following his trail, Sir James experiences some extraordinary happenings.
19) Ghost girl
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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"Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. And Zee is seeing frightening things: large, scary dogs that talk and maybe even . . . a ghost. When she tells her classmates, only her best friend Elijah believes her. Worse, mean girl Nellie gives Zee a cruel nickname: Ghost Girl. But whatever the storm washed up...
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