Catalog Search Results
Author
Description
Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits. Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
282 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
While staying with her family in Louisiana's Laurel Oaks Plantation, purported to be one of the most haunted places in America, thirteen-year-old Lila is contacted by the ghost of a slave girl unjustly convicted of murder. Story inspired by the author's visit to the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana.
Author
Series
Dragonbreath volume 5
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
201 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
Not only must Danny and Wendell trick-or-treat with skeptical classmate Christiana, school bully Big Eddy dares them to enter a haunted house on Halloween night, where they may have to sacrifice their candy to a ghost.
7) October ogre
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
68 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
After a condemned man cursed Colonel Pyncheon from the scaffold during an execution for witchcraft, the Colonel's fate seemed to affect all of his descendants in the crumbling mansion until "young Phoebe Pyncheon from the country breathed fresh air and sunshine into the mouldering lives and rooms."
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 1
Description
"Josh and Amanda just moved into the oldest and weirdest house on the block. It might even be haunted. But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. So Josh and Amanda do. But these creepy new friends are not exactly what Mom and Dad had in mind. Because they want to be friends--forever"--P. [4] of cover.
10) House
Author
Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xiii, 481 p. (large print) : 22 cm.
11) Widow's tears
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
ix, 292 pages ; 24 cm
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Shielded by his mother and sisters from his father's obsessive construction of a haunted house attraction, young Noah considers an ultimate sacrifice when he chooses to acknowledge a monster that his family members have tried to ignore.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Struggling to maintain her sanity in the haunted corners and memory-laden passages of her decaying ancestral home, Sam takes in her pregnant sister before the appearance of a knife-wielding ghost boy reveals dangerous family secrets.
17) Zombie dog
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
161 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Becky suspects that something dangerous lives in the abandoned house next door, and when her parents start blaming her dog for the damage in their yard, Becky knows she must stop the mysterious creature before it is too late.
Author
Series
Chickadee court mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When nine-year-old Alex and his friend Yasmeen investigate the disappearance of cats in their neighborhood, they stumble onto a larger mystery involving a haunted house and a ghostly cat.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title