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Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
To claim her inheritance, Helen Vaughan must spend one year in her ancestral home, Harrowstone Hall, and with her life and sanity at stake, she must unravel Harrowstone's secrets, an endeavor that forces her to question everything she knows about her family and herself.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
pages cm
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"Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow. Now, on the eve of the book's release, the terrible story within begins to unfold in real life"--
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 39
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
177 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
"Sam and Asha. Asha and Sam. Their friendship is so long established, they take it for granted. Just as Asha takes for granted that Donnybrooke, the mansion that sits on the highest hill in Coreville, is the best house in town. But when Sam is accepted into snobbish Castleton Academy as an autistic 'Miracle Boy,' he leaves Asha, who is also autistic, to navigate middle school alone. He also leaves her wondering if she can take anything for granted...
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Halle dreams of becoming a scream queen. She practices her loudest scream every day and has learned a lot from studying the horror movies of her favorite director, Maximus Price. Maximus lives just outside town, and when the chance to go to his home arises, Halle grabs it with both hands. She doesn’t realize that real life horrors await her at Price Manor. Paisley and Argyle, Maximus’s twin children, think that the creepy, squid-like creatures...
7) Night music
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Description
Isabel Delancey, a classical violinist, has always taken her comfortable life for granted. But when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her with a mountain of debt, she and her two children are forced to abandon their home and move to the Spanish House, a now-dilapidated manor Isabel inherited in the English countryside. With the house falling down around them, and the last of her savings disappearing fast, Isabel turns to her neighbors for help, not...
8) Mousehunt
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Down-on-their luck brothers Lars and Ernie Smuntz don't think much of the crumbling old mansion they inherit until they discover that their dilapidated estate is actually worth millions. But before they can cash in, they've got to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant: a tiny and tenacious mouse. What might seem like child's play becomes an epic battle of hysterical proportions.
9) Mrs. God
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Formats
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"Esswood House. Home and estate of the Seneschal family, aristocratic patrons of the literary arts for well over a hundred years...There was always talk of a hidden secret in Esswood's past-and the Seneschal children were often so pale and sickly-but don't all English manor houses have a few ghost stories to call their own?" -- from cover.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, c1995
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Description
From the initial plans in 1918 to the commencement of all-access tours, examines the 165-room mansion overlooking the California countryside, commissioned by media mogul William Randolph Hearst.
Author
Series
Victorian village mystery volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 270 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Kate Hamilton's plans for recreating Asheboro, Maryland as a Victorian village and tourist attraction are progressing nicely, and most of the townspeople have become supporters. There's only one problem: money. Kate had laid out what she thought was a reasonable plan, and had built in a financial cushion in her estimates, but the over-runs had exceeded everybody's expectations, and the town coffers are empty, while the opening date looms closer and...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sally Hurst is going to Rhode Island to live with her father Alex and his new girlfriend Kim in the nineteenth-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the estate, Sally finds a hidden basement and accidentally lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house's bottomless depths. Before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all, Sally must convince Alex and Kim that it's...
13) The Murder House
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multi-million-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty, and rumored to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance. Detective Jenna Murphy used to consider herself a local, but she hasn't been...
Publisher
Slingshot Entertainment ; Vista Point Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000=6, c1998.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gives the history and shows film footage of Hearst Castle, the vision of newspaper publisher, William Randolph Hearst, who was inspired by his many trips to Europe's finest castles. From this unique blend of European influence rose an architectural masterpiece which Hearst furnished with priceless art, surrounded by gardens, terraces, pools and walkways spanning 127 acres.
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
303 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Description
This book allows us to enter some of the most exceptional of England's historic houses that are lived in and decorated for today by their imaginative owners and designers. Jeremy Musson and Hugo Rittson Thomas have assembled a stunning collection of twenty charming homes that reveal a remarkable wealth of taste and style inspiration, both inside and out, ranging from traditional and classic to contemporary and bohemian, with examples including Haddon...
18) Lea and Camila
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
169 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
When she invites her friend Camila to St. Louis for spring break, Lea rescues a stray kitten and makes a mysterious discovery while visiting a crumbling mansion that makes her forget to be a good host.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Maud Drennan is a dedicated caregiver whose sunny disposition masks a deep sadness. A tragic childhood event left her haunted, in the company of a cast of prattling saints who pop in and out of her life like tourists. Cathal Flood is a menace by all accounts. The lone occupant of a Gothic mansion crawling with feral cats, he has been waging war against his son's attempts to put him into an old-age home and sent his last caretaker running for the...
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