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Includes some of the classics and some new works in the genre. Includes tales by Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Willa Cather, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Mark Twain and Washington Irving.
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Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts--a tale of tragedies, loves found and lost, and a family haunted for generations. 1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him... Graphic designer Sonya...
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Mary W. Chase died on Nantucket Island just over one hundred years ago, but she is still there, in the house she once lived in, and she wants to keep it that way--but first she must somehow contact a group of children who are interested in preserving historic homes on the island.
106) Chaos in Mudbug
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"Jadyn St. James hopes that the two-week quiet period in Mudbug means things in the small bayou town are back to normal...whatever that is. But when a fisherman finds a sunken shrimp boat, and the boat captain is missing, Jadyn wonders if the damage to the boat was caused by a storm, or it something far more nefarious happened. Colt Bertrand has been fighting his attraction to the sexy game warden since he first laid eyes on her. Once more, their...
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When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary, just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day when he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned to the orphanage, two...
108) One Grave at a Time
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Having narrowly averted an (under)world war, Cat Crawfield wants nothing more than a little downtime with her vampire husband, Bones. Unfortunately, her gift from New Orleans' voodoo queen just keeps on giving-leading to a personal favor that sends them into battle once again, this time against a villainous spirit. Centuries ago, Heinrich Krammer was a witch hunter. Now, every All Hallows Eve, he takes physical form to torture innocent women before...
109) The ravenous dead
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"When Keira woke in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: she can see ghosts, and frightening, mask-wearing men were hunting her. She thought she would be forever haunted, but now, with the help of unexpected new allies, she's coming into her own. Yet the dead still whisper to Keira at night, and soon she'll be faced with an insatiable darkness-a powerful ghost fueled by rage and a dreadful, dangerous hunger that can never be quenched"--...
110) Tree girl
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Despite the warnings of the old man with whom she has always lived, nine-year-old Rowanna is drawn to the forest and a huge tree she can just barely see from her home at the edge of the sea-especially after she befriends a bear who is much more than he seems.
111) Harvest house
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"Deftly leading readers to the literary crossroads of contemporary realism and haunting mystery, Cynthia Leitich Smith revisits the world of her American Indian Youth Literature Award winner Hearts Unbroken. Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an "Indian maiden," a ghost inspired...
112) The Little Stranger
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The Little Stranger follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in declineits masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable...
113) Bridge of souls
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Cassidy Blake and her ghostly friend Jacob have survived the ghosts of Edinburgh and Paris, but New Orleans is a haunted city in a class by itself. That's the current stop for her parents' TV show, but there's something a lot scarier than ghosts here. The Emissary of Death is after Cassidy, and to defeat it she will need the help of the Society of the Black Cat, and she will also be faced with a terrible choice: lose one of her two friends--either...
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Three years after her return from the Ever After, May Bird, now thirteen, draws her scattered friends--Pumpkin, Fabbio, Beatrice, and Lucius--out of hiding to take a final stand against Evil Bo Cleevil, as May herself makes ready to live up to the prophecy that placed the fate of the Ever After, and her own world, in her hands.
115) Wild orchids
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The story of a famous mystery writer, recently widowed and still devastated by his wife's death, and his lively and beautiful young assistant. As the assistant rekindles the writer's penchant for excitement and passion, the two are drawn to the mysteries presented by a legendary ghost story that still haunts the small North Carolina town where they live.
116) Ghost knight
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Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft and new friend Ella summon the ghost of Sir William Longspee, who may be able to protect Jon from a group of ghosts that threatens him harm from the day he arrives at Salisbury Cathedral's boarding school. Includes historical notes.
117) A wee dose of death
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A second dose of Scottish charm from the author of A Wee Murder in My Shop.
While business is booming at the ScotShop in Hamelin, Vermont, proprietor Peggy Winn doesn’t have time to toast her good fortune thanks to her hot-tempered, fourteenth-century Scottish companion. Being thrust into the modern world hasn’t been easy for Dirk, but Peggy is at her wit’s end trying to keep the ghostie galoot...
While business is booming at the ScotShop in Hamelin, Vermont, proprietor Peggy Winn doesn’t have time to toast her good fortune thanks to her hot-tempered, fourteenth-century Scottish companion. Being thrust into the modern world hasn’t been easy for Dirk, but Peggy is at her wit’s end trying to keep the ghostie galoot...
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"Bailey Ruth's supervisor, Wiggins, is worried about a dear old friend. The ghost of elegant Lorraine Marlow haunts Adelaide's college library. Known as the Lady of the Roses, she plays matchmaker, using the fragrant flowers to pair up students. But someone's making mischief after hours, leaving roses strewn about the library, destroying a gargoyle, and stealing a valuable book. Concerned with Lorraine's reputation among the living, Wiggins dispatches...
119) Doomed
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"The continued adventures of Madison, the heroine of DAMNED, who escapes Hell and comes back to Earth"--After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory-or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet shes invisible to everyone whos still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they walk right through her as well. The upside is that, no longer...
120) Johnny Angel
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Killed in a car crash after his senior prom, Johnny is sent back to earth as an angel to fix certain problems left unresolved at the time of his death.