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By Jill Murphy. 1974
By John Bellairs. 1993
Mrs. Zimmerman, the kindly neighbourhood witch, invites Rose Rita on a trip to discover the meaning of a puzzling deathbed…
letter. The trip becomes a nightmare as the two are drawn into a dark world where not even Mrs. Zimmerman's powers of witchcraft can help them. Sequel to "The Figure in the Shadows" (EB69292). Followed by "The ghost in the mirror" (EB69286.) Grades 5-8. 1976.By Isobelle Carmody. 1996
Nathanial's sick of hearing that Cheshunt's a place where nothing bad ever happens. So why does it seem so sinister?…
No one else thinks the curfew strange, the school subdued or the haunted look in people's eyes out of the ordinary. But then Nathanial's new. He has to be initiated in the ways of the town. Once that's done, he won't be causing any more trouble. Junior high readers.By John Bellairs, Brad Strickland. 1993
In this sequel to The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring (EB69285), Rose Rita Pottinger and Mrs. Zimmermann, the kindly…
neighbourhood witch, are transported back to 1828. There they attempt to save the Weiss family from being destroyed by a wicked wizard. Grades 5-8. 1993.By Joe Hill. 2017
"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug…
who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump, and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero’s island of roiling vapour that seems animated by a mind of its own in "Aloft." Short horror stories that deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life. Bestseller. 2017. Snapshot -- Loaded -- Aloft -- Rain. Uniform title: Novels.By Elizabeth Peters. 2005
Egypt, 1922. Archaeologist Amelia Peabody Emerson and her family are at their house on the Nile when author Magda Petherick…
arrives with an ancient statue she believes is cursed. When Magda is murdered, Amelia and her husband and son investigate the crime as well as the relic's history. Bestseller 2005. (Amelia Peabody mystery ; 17)By Elizabeth Levy. 2002
While 11-year-old Sam is playing chess online with 12-year-old Vlad Clinciu in Bucharest, Romania, Sam's annoying cousin Mabel prattles on…
about vampires and Count Dracula. Then Vlad and his family come to New York for a chess tournament, and Sam is astounded and annoyed to find that his friend is not a chess beginner at all. Meanwhile, Mabel and Sam's brother Robert find all sorts of reasons to believe that Vlad really is a vampire. Grades 3-6. 2002. (Sam and Robert Bamford books ; 4)By Judith Allnatt. 2016
Rosie Milford inherits a house in an old silk factory after her mother’s death and moves there with her young…
children. The discovery of a shocking truth about her own childhood, fills her with distrust and fearfulness. Then she starts seeing a strange child, wandering in the garden. In 1812, orphan Beulah Fiddement works as a bobbin winder and has secrets that her master would go to any lengths to get. Beulah’s story of guilt and bravery will echo down two centuries and change Rosie’s life as she struggles to overcome the hand of her own past and find redemption. 2016.By John Harding. 2014
New England, the 1890s. A man calling himself Doctor John Shepherd arrives at an isolated women's mental hospital to begin…
work as assistant to the owner Dr Morgan. As Shepherd struggles to conceal his own dark secrets, he finds the asylum has plenty of its own. Who is the woman who wanders the corridors by night with murderous intent? Why does the chief nurse hate him? And why is he not allowed to visit the hospital's top floor? Shocked by Morgan's harsh treatment of the patients, and intrigued by one of them, Jane Dove, a strange amnesiac girl who is fascinated by books but cannot read, Shepherd embarks upon an experiment to help her. 2014.By Poppy Z Brite. 1998
Jared Poe counts the days on Louisiana's Death Row. He has been condemned to die for killing his lover. Can…
he clear his name and find the real killer in time? No. For we are in the dark realm of The Crow, and Jared must feel the cold shudder of Death before proving his innocence.By Joseph Delaney. 2006
Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding…
Anglezarke Moor. But he soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "Curse of the bane" (EB74300), followed by "Attack of the fiend". 2007. (The last apprentice ; 3) Uniform title: Spook's secretBy V. C Andrews. 1980
The children who survived the horror of being locked in their grandmother's attic for years are now free and set…
on exacting revenge. Cathy now possesses the feminine powers inherited from her mother, and is determined to use them to show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic days cannot be forgiven. Sequel to "Flowers in the attic". 1980.By Joseph Delaney. 2006
The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, deal with the dark. Together they rid the county of witches, ghosts, and…
boggarts. But now there's some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. Deep in the catacombs of the cathedral lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat; a force so evil that the whole county is in danger of being corrupted by its powers. The Bane! As Thomas and the Spook prepare for the battle of their lives, it becomes clear that the Bane isn't their only enemy. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "Revenge of the witch" (EB74301), followed by "Night of the soul stealer" (EB74610). 2006. (The last apprentice ; 2) Uniform title: Spook's curseBy John Harding. 2010
1891. In a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle and banned…
from reading. By night, she sleepwalks the corridors like one of the old house's many ghosts and is troubled by a recurrent dream in which a mysterious woman appears to threaten her younger brother Giles. After the sudden violent death of the children's first governess, a second teacher, Miss Taylor, arrives, and immediately strange phenomena begin to occur. Florence becomes convinced that the new governess is a vengeful and malevolent spirit who means to do Giles harm. Against this powerful supernatural enemy, and without any adult to whom she can turn for help, Florence must use all her intelligence and ingenuity to both protect her little brother and preserve her private world. Followed by "The girl who couldn't read". 2010.By Joseph Delaney. 2008
Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. But now a new…
danger is threatening Tom's world: the witches are rising and the three most powerful clans are uniting in order to conjure an unimaginable evil. Tom and the Spook set out to stop the witches before they unleash the demon. But when Tom finds himself on his own, he wonders if he has the courage and cunning to defeat the most powerful enemy he has ever encountered. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "Night of the soul-stealer" (EB76101), followed by "Wrath of the bloodeye". 2008. (The last apprentice ; 4) Uniform title: Spook's battleBy Valerie Hoffman. 2006
Andrew Craven, a vampire, was awakened from a catatonic state by love's passion. While he had been asleep, his demonic…
half-brother had launched a plan to take over the United States and the world. Only Andrew can stop him, but Andrew has one vulnerability - the newly formed love of his life. Contains explicit descriptions of sex and violence. 2006.By R. L Stine. 1992
Something is very wrong with Greg's camera -- the photographs keep turning out wrong. The pictures appear to foretell the…
future, like the snapshot of his father's new car that shows the car mangled. Sequel to "Monster Blood". Followed by "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb". Grades 4-7. 1992. (Goosebumps ; 4)By Margaret Buffie. 1987
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie McGill having a difficult time: her parents have divorced and her dad is gone; her mother has remarried…
but things aren't going well; her trip to her grandmother's cottage for the summer will be difficult because the whole family is coming along. To get away from everything, Lizzie starts exploring nearby Rain Island, finds a pair of old spectacles, and begins seeing things and people who aren't there. Are they connected to her family's past? For junior and senior high readers.By Lynne Markham. 2003
By Terence Blacker. 2002
Matthew has always wanted a new computer. But, now that he has been given one for his birthday, something strange…
and frightening is happening. It seems that someone is trying to contact him from cyberspace - someone who died fifty years ago. For junior high readers. 2002.