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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet, which turns out to be the vengeful spirit of his late girlfriend's stepfather.
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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On Christmas Eve in a rural house in England, as his family begins telling ghost stories around the fire, middle-aged Arthur Kipps cannot help but remember a horror-filled episode in his past. In his early twenties, he had been sent by the legal firm for which he worked to a remote part of the country to represent the company at the funeral of one of its clients and subsequently to go through the deceased's private papers.
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Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (356 pages : chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
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Death is a lot less peaceful than it used to be - and infinitely more dangerous. At least, that's the case for Elisa Cameron. Someone in the corrupt metropolis of Arcadia had her killed, but Elisa rose as Ghost, a beautiful but lethal specter intent on unraveling the mystery of her demise... and escorting those responsible to the other side. But being a ghost, it seems, is no protection from the dark forces that infest Arcadia, who are out to prove...
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English
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One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall, the residence of the Ayres family for more than two centuries. Its owners, mother, son and daughter, are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as conflicts of their own. But the Ayreses are haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life.
6) The grownup
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Language
English
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"A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the 'psychic' visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of...
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Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (96 pages)
Language
English
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Regarded as the Victorian era's greatest writer of ghost stories, J. Sheridan LeFanu (1814-73) gave expression to the fears and dread that often haunt sensitive individuals. This collection contains four of his finest ghost stories, each crafted with remarkable ingenuity and storytelling skill. The title story offers a petrifying account of an English cleric's bouts with a malignant spectral presence; "Squire Toby's Will" recounts a sibling rivalry...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works... full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused...
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English
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"Everyone knows about Ashburn House. They whisper its old owner went mad, and that restless ghosts still roam the halls. But when Adrienne inherits the crumbling old mansion, she only sees it as a lifeline...until night falls. As she uncovers more of the house's secrets, Adrienne begins to believe the whispered rumors may be horrifyingly true. Chasing the threads of a decades-old mystery, Adrienne realizes she's become the prey to something deeply...
Author
Publisher
FalconGuides
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
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"Inside Campfire Tales you'll find 17 original and classic tales bursting at the seams with ghosts, graveyards, and things that go bump in the night"--
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Language
English
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Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel's life seems neatly on track—a passionate marriage,...
12) White horse
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to...
14) Apartment 1303
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
A modern ghost story which turns a love hate relationship between mother and daughter into a tale of horror.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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When the ghost of Lara's great-aunt Sadie--a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance--mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems--which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they're after?
16) Eclipse: a novel
Author
Series
Alexander Cleave trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he cannot discern the spectral from the real.
When renowned actor Alexander Cleave was a boy living in a large house with his widowed mother and various itinerant lodgers, he encountered a strikingly vivid...
When renowned actor Alexander Cleave was a boy living in a large house with his widowed mother and various itinerant lodgers, he encountered a strikingly vivid...
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Publisher
Publishing by Rebecca J. Vickery
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
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Brona lives in an isolated house on the cliffs which overlook the sea. She arrives home to find the door ajar. Her husband is out of town and her sister, who is staying with her, has disappeared. Blood-stained floors appear and disappear, low whispering voices greet her, and a storm outside rages causing the lights to flicker. Brona must put her fears behind her and unravel the mystery that haunts this house. --Provided by publisher.
18) Dead Sky Morning
Author
Series
Experiment in terror novel volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (419 p.)
Language
English
Description
"With the Experiment in Terror show finding some success, amateur ghost hunters Perry Palomino and Dex Foray embark on their most terrifying investigation yet. A tiny, fog-shrouded island in the rough strait between British Columbia and Washington State has held a dark secret for decades: It was a former leper colony where over forty souls were left to rot, die and bury each other. Now a functioning campground, Perry and Dex spend an isolated weekend...
19) The Doll House
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Publisher
Necro Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
WELCOME TO THE PATTEN MANOR HOUSE. It's a horror house, a slaughter house, a devil house. And it's something else, too:A doll house. Reginald Lympton collects doll houses, and now that he's acquired the rare Patten Doll House, he can boast the most preeminent collection in the world. But after visions too abominable to reckon, and nightmares blacker than the most bottomless abyss, he discovers in short order that his acquisition is not a prized collector's...
20) Grave Alice
Author
Publisher
Danielle Q. Lee
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1909, eighteen-year-old Alice Winters awakens in unfamiliar surroundings, paralyzed by a horrific accident that has claimed both her parents. Alice, mute and unable to move anything but her eyes, finds herself at a pretentious health retreat for the rich. After months of recovery with little improvement, she is informed her inheritance can no longer cover the cost of her care and she will be relocated to a government asylum known for...
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