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...

"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.

Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.

Explores whether ghosts and haunted houses are real, or not, using scientific research.

Simon Lester Henry Strauss is not in the least afraid of any haunted house, but there is something else that terrifies him.

When a little mouse accidentally tickles a dragon's snout during a winter night in a haunted house, it sets off a series of cumulative actions which throw all of the creatures into a frenzy.

Adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, this psychological thiller tells the story of four people who come to the house to study its supernatural phenomena. Dr. Markway, a trained anthropologist with a special interest in psychic research, wants to try what he hopes will be a true exercise in terror. He's heard about the reputation of Hill House, which claimed the lives of several of its young inhabitants, and wishes to explore...

A homeowner offers five strangers ten thousand dollars if they can last out the night in his house.

"Engaging images accompany information about ghosts in mansions. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--