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Ask the Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World
A collection of scary folktales from countries around the world including China, Russia, Spain, and the United States.
145 p. 1999
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Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories.
A selection of unsettling stories by such authors as Ray Bradbury, Patricia McKissack, Jack Prelutsky, William Sleator, Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl, Jane Yolen, Alvin Schwartz, Shel Sliverstein and Mr. Stine himself.
214 p. 2002
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Seriously Spooky Stories
There are thrills and chills galore in this spine-tingling collection of stories about ghosts, ghouls, and haunted happenings. Young readers will shiver with delight at stories by favorite writers such as Ruskin Bond, Adele Geras, and Tony Ross.
160 p. 2007
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The August House Book of Scary Stories : Spooky Tales for Telling Out Loud
An anthology of spooky stories drawn from folklore, local history, and the storytellers' imaginations, and divided into the categories Just Desserts and Lessons Learned, Ghostly Guardians, Dark Humor, Urban Legends and Jump Tales, and Fearless Females.
144 p. 2009
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The Book of Ghosts
A collection of classic ghost stories adapted from such legendary writers as, Edgar Allen Poe, Washington Irving, and Oscar Wilde.
140 p. 2009
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Allison, Jennifer
Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower. First of the books about Gilda Joyce.
321 p. 2005
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Avi
Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a Black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
120 p. 1988
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Bell, Cathleen Davitt
Slipping
Thirteen-year-old Michael and an unlikely group of allies journey to the river of the dead to help Michael's grandfather release his hold on a ghostly life and, in the process, heal wounds that have kept Michael's father distant.
215 p. 2008
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Bruchac, Joseph
Skeleton Man
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life. Sequel: The Return of Skeleton Man.
114 p. 2001
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Buckingham, Royce
Demonkeeper
When Nat, the weirdest boy in Seattle, leaves for a date with the plainest girl in town, chaos breaks out in the houseful of demons of which he is the sole guardian.
216 p. 2007
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Charles, Veronika Martenova
Don't Open the Door
Having been warned not to open the door for anyone while Mom goes to help a neighbor, the three boys try to outdo each other by telling scary stories about strangers at the door. By the time they have finished, they have scared themselves under the bed. Stories in this book come from Bohemia, the Guyanas, and Peru and are based on the universal theme of not opening the door to strangers.
2007
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DeFelice, Cynthia C.
The Ghost of Fossil Glen
Allie Nichols' friend Karen doesn't want to hear the story of a ghost calling for Allie's help and then falling to her death. As Allie discovers that her role is to avenge a murder, she also learns something about friendship, false and true. First of the Allie Nichols books.
167 p. 1998
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Del Negro, Janice
Passion and Poison : Tales of Shape-shifters Ghosts and Spirited Women
Contains eight short stories about female ghosts, all authored by Janice Del Negro.
64 p. 2007
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Delaney, Joseph
Revenge of the Witch
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties. For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. Now his time is coming to an end. But who will take over for him? Thomas Ward is the last hope. But will he learn the difference between a benign witch and a malevolent one? And what will happen if Thomas accidentally frees Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the county? Book 1 of The Last Apprentice.
344 p. 2005
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Fleischman, Paul
Graven Images : Three Stories
A collection of three stories about a child who reads the lips of those who whisper secrets into a statue's ear; a daydreaming shoemaker's apprentice who must find ways to make the girl he loves notice him; and a stone carver who creates a statue of a ghost.
116 p. 2006
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Funke, Cornelia Caroline
Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost
A timid boy named Tom reluctantly agrees to help professional ghostbuster Hetty Hyssop dispel an IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) from an old house. First in the Ghosthunters series.
135 p. 2006
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Gaiman, Neil
Coraline
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
162 p. 2002
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Galdone, Paul
The Teeny-tiny Woman
Retells the tale of the teeny-tiny woman who finds a teeny-tiny bone in a churchyard and puts it away in her cupboard before she goes to sleep.
30 p. 1984
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Going, K. L. (Kelly L.)
The Garden of Eve
Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.
234 p. 2007
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Grabenstein, Chris
The Crossroads
When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.
325 p. 2008
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