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The haunting of Alaizabel Cray
By Chris Wooding. 2004
Thaniel, a 17-year-old wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to destroy the terrible creatures that infest the alleys…
of London's Old Quarter. Their lives become entwined with that of Alaizabel Cray, a woman who may be either mad or possessed. Murderous, nonhuman creatures and power-hungry villains abound in this alternative London of the past. Descriptions of violence and some strong language. For junior high and older readers. 2004.The haunting of Lamb House
By Joan Aiken. 1991
A young boy in the 18th century records his experiences with ghosts and family tragedy in a journal. A century…
later, the journal is found by the manor tenant, Henry James, whose attempts to publish the writings are thwarted. Now the manor is occupied by E.F. Benson who inadvertently brings the whole business into the open. 1991.The haunting of Hill House
By Shirley Jackson. 1985
Hill House, an ugly, abandoned old mansion, attracts four strangers to its haunted domain. Dr. Montague, an occult scholar, visits…
the house with three other people to find evidence of haunting. At first, they find little of interest beyond some odd noises, but the House is gathering its powers to make one of them its own. 1985, c1959.The haunted toolshed (Joe Sherlock, kid detective ; #1)
By David Keane. 2006
Fourth-grader Joe Sherlock aspires to follow in the footsteps of the famous Sherlock Holmes by solving local mysteries for $10…
a day. He bumbles toward the solutions but manages to solve the cases in the end. Here he attempts to discover who has been stealing things from his neighbour's house, including a glass eyeball and a bundt cake. Grades 3-6. 2006. (Joe Sherlock, kid detective ; 1)The healer
By Greg Hollingshead. 1998
Tim Wakelin, a recently widowed writer, heads to Canadian Shield country in search of a story about a healer named…
Caroline Troyer. When he enters her world, the landmarks of his own world disappear as their lives become intertwined. Strong language and some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. c1998.The green man
By Michael Bédard. 2012
Teenaged O – never call her Ophelia – is about to spend the summer with her aunt Emily, a poet…
and the owner of an antiquarian book store, The Green Man. A proud, independent woman, Emily’s been made frail by a heart attack, and O will be a help to her. Just how crucial that help will be unfolds as O first tackles Emily’s badly neglected home, then the chaotic shop. But soon she discovers that there are mysteries and long-buried dark forces that she cannot sweep away. For senior high readers. 2012.The guests on South Battery (Tradd Street series. #5.)
By Karen White. 2017
With her extended maternity leave at it's end, Melanie Trenholm is less than thrilled to leave her new husband and…
beautiful twins to return to work, especially when she's awoken by a phone call with no voice on the other end - and the uneasy feeling that the ghostly apparitions that have stayed silent for over a year are about to invade her life once more. But her return to the realty office goes better than she could have hoped, with Jayne Smith, a new client, eager to sell the home she recently inherited on South Battery. Despite her stroke of luck, Melanie can't deny that spirits both malevolent and benign have started to appear to her again. One is shrouded from sight, appearing whenever Jayne is near. Another arrives when an old cistern is discovered in her backyard on Tradd Street. Melanie knows nothing good can come from unearthing the past. But some secrets refuse to stay buried. Sequel to "Return to Tradd Street". 2017.The green mile: a novel in six parts
By Stephen King. 1996
At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers await death, whilst their…
guards watch over them. Good or evil, innocent or guilty, none of them have ever seen the likes of brutal new prisoner John Coffey, seemingly a devil in human form. Strong language. 1998, c1996.The ghost of Captain Briggs (Sam, dog detective.)
By Mary Labatt. 1999
Sam thinks the old stone mansion where he, Beth, and Jennie are spending their vacation, is haunted. She comes to…
his conclusion by witnessing the not-so-friendly housekeeper, weird notes, and funny noises coming from the attic. Could it be true? Grades 3-6. c1999. (Sam, dog detective)The girl from the well (Girl from the well series. #1.)
By Rin Chupeco. 2017
Whenever there's a monster hurting a child, Okiku's spirit is there to deliver punishment. But one boy draws her like…
no other. Something evil writhes beneath his skin. Can Okiku protect him? Followed by "The suffering". For senior high readers. 2017.The girl next door
By Jack Ketchum. 2016
Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns, and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage…
Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, damp basement of the Chandler house, Meg and Susan are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distant aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons and finally the entire neighbourhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, torturous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make. 2016.The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection
By Edgar Allan Poe. 2000
Presents twenty of Poe's best-known poems and tales. 2000. To -- Alone -- The City in the sea -- The…
Fall of the house of Usher -- The pit and the pendulum -- The Masque of the red death -- The Tell-tale heart -- The Black cat -- The Raven -- The facts of the case of M. Valdemar -- The cask of Amontillado -- The bells -- Annabell Lee -- Eldorado -- Ligeia -- The imp of the perverse -- Morella -- Berenice -- The gold bug.The Dunwich horror and others (Collected Lovecraft Fiction Ser. #Vol. 1)
By S. T Joshi, H. P Lovecraft, August William Derleth. 1963
Collection of macabre tales by the first master of supernatural terror who wrote during the early 1900s. Lovecraft created this…
new form of literature which is neither fantasy nor science fiction, but that combines elements of both.The doll-master: and other tales of terror
By Joyce Carol Oates. 2016
In “Equatorial,” set in the exotic Galapagos, an affluent American wife experiences disorienting assaults upon her sense of who her…
charismatic husband really is, and what his plans may be for her. In “Gun Accident,” a teenage girl is thrilled when her favourite teacher asks her to house-sit, but when an intruder forces his way into the house, the fate of more than one life is changed forever. And in the title story, a young boy becomes obsessed with his cousin’s doll after she tragically passes away from leukemia. As he grows older, he begins to collect “found dolls” from the surrounding neighbourhoods and stores his treasures in the abandoned carriage house on his family's estate. But just what kind of dolls are they? 2016. Uniform title: Short stories.The double human
By James O'Neal. 2010
In the near future, the U.S. is approaching full-scale anarchy, with Miami becoming a prisonlike wasteland. Police detective Tom Wilner…
catches a murder case, but he soon realizes there's a serial killer at large, and to catch him, Tom will need to go into Miami. And if that's not scary enough, the killer is not human - he's the undead. Sequel to "The Human Disguise". Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2010.The doll who ate his mother
By Ramsey Campbell. 1987
It was a freak accident. The man suddenly stepped into the road. The brakes failed and Clare could only steer…
wildly, the car finally crashing into a tree. Now her brother Rob was dead, slumped against the passenger door. But his right arm is missing - severed but no longer to be found. Someone has taken it! 1987.The door to December
By Dean R Koontz. 1985
Six years after her husband, Dylan, disappears with their three-year-old daughter, Melanie, child psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey is summoned by the…
police. They have found Dylan and two others brutally murdered. The three had been holding Melanie prisoner and conducting cruel behaviour modification research on her. Melanie is in a trance, terrified of the door to December and the thing that lurks behind it. Strong language and descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 1994, c1985.The Dodd, Mead gallery of horror
By Charles L Grant. 1983
The doll in the garden: a ghost story
By Mary Downing Hahn. 1989
Ten-year-old Ashley Cummings and her mother move into an apartment on the top floor of an old house. At eighty-eight,…
its owner, Miss Cooper, has become a grumpy old woman. She doesn't like cats and even though most of her lawn is very neat, there is a patch at the back that is overgrown with weeds. It isn't long before Ashley discovers why. Grades 4-7. 1989.The doomsday key: a Sigma Force novel (Sigma Force novel #6)
By James Rollins. 2009
At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in…
St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. Three murder victims on three continents, linked by a pagan Druidic cross burned into their flesh. Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force have only days to solve an apocalyptic puzzle dating back centuries. Violence and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009. (Sigma Force novels ; 6)