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Summary: Collection of four stories of strange and unexplainable circumstances. A headless horseman haunts Sleep Hollow. At least that's the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won't stop the town's new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing through the Hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side. Will Ichabod win over his beloved or discover that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION IRVSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1991
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCHAlender, Katie
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Point 2015
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Summary: "Once a year, a road appears in the forest. And at the end of it, the ghost of Lucy Gallows beckons. Lucy's game isn't for the faint of heart. If you win, you escape with your life. But if you lose.... Sara's sister disappeared one year ago--and only Sara knows where she is. Becca went to find the ghost of Lucy Gallows and is trapped on the road that leads to her. In the sleepy town of Briar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Summary: When Stu hears a voice calling him late at night, follows it to the haunted house down the road, and sees the ghost of a boy who was murdered fifty years before, he feels compelled to find out why the ghost is reaching out to him--even if it means risking his own life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2017
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WALSummary: A collection of thirteen original ghost stories, some in rhyme, by Blaise Hemingway and Jesse Reffsin, accompanied by illustrations by Chris Sasaki and Jeff Turley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GHOSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.25 SCHSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death, they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories, collected and retold by folklorist Alvin Schwartz. These horrific tales are guaranteed to raise goosebumps. Let the faint of heart beware. Pull up a chair, find a hand to hold, and prepare to be horrified. Includes: Scary Stories to Tell in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA SCHWhite, Andrew Joseph
Summary: "London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he'll be married by the end of the year. It doesn't matter that he's needed a decade of tutors to hide his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WHIBlake, Kendare.
Summary: Months after Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell and sacrificed herself for seventeen-year-old ghost hunter Cas Lowood, persistent visions of Anna being tortured cause Cas to decide to save her as she once saved him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Teen 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLAMalinenko, Ally
Summary: "Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. And Zee is seeing frightening things: large, scary dogs that talk and maybe even . . . a ghost. When she tells her classmates, only her best friend Elijah believes her. Worse, mean girl Nellie gives Zee a cruel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: And here we are…again…as the ominous air jolts the autumn leaves from their branches and urges their delicate tints of dusky orange, dim yellow and dark reds to the ground. The skies over Michigan are dark and overcast as fog envelops the somber forests and depleted corn fields. Pumpkin patches are at full capacity and cider mills are working overtime growing the ghoulish gourds and crafting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wicked Harvest Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMESmelker, Jerrod S.
Summary: Welcome to the Wicked Harvest: Michigan Monsters & Macabre spooky short stories books. Inside you will read 10 chilling haunts of encounters with terrifying creatures, cursed fountains, the undead, an abandoned asylum and other creepy and frightening things. All stories take place in and around Michigan cities and towns and transpire during the delightful season of fall and the greatest holiday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wicked Harvest Books 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMEStroud, Jonathan.
Summary: "Lockwood & Co. are hired to investigate Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead, while Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in a ghost jar"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STRRiggs, Ransom
Summary: After fleeing an army of terrible monsters, Jacob Portman and his peculiar friends find themselves lost at sea, and the only person who might be able to get them ashore safely, their illustrious headmistress Miss Peregrine, is stuck in the form of a bird! Hoping to find a way to get Miss Peregrine back to normal -- or as normal as a peculiar can get -- the children journey to London. But no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIGSummary: Scary and dark, these stories will make you want to pull the covers up that little bit higher...You may need to locate the nearest duvet before you start to listen to this truly 'haunting'collection, as you are goin to need it for hiding under as you listen to terrifying stories of rats and ghouls, amongst other dastardly creatures of the night...be prepared to be scared!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 0000
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CLAStine, R. L.
Summary: Harry and his brother Alex are at Camp Spirit Moon. The jokes the old campers love to play on the new campers are serious, creepy, scary ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC STIHahn, Mary Downing
Summary: From ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn, an assortment of eerie short stories to thrill and chill young readers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HAHSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.25 SCHTremblay, Paul
Summary: When her fourteen-year-old son disappears during a summer sleepover at Devil's Rock, Elizabeth and other residents of the town begin to see his ghost throughout the town, which leads her to believe that he is dead. She tries to maintain a sense of calm to help her younger daughter, Katie, but her anxiety builds when she begins to find crumpled pages of Tommy's journal which contain disturbing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016