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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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"First published in 1959, [this book] has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a 'haunting'; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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After a condemned man cursed Colonel Pyncheon from the scaffold during an execution for witchcraft, the Colonel's fate seemed to affect all of his descendants in the crumbling mansion until "young Phoebe Pyncheon from the country breathed fresh air and sunshine into the mouldering lives and rooms."
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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...
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Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Josh and Amanda just moved into the oldest and weirdest house on the block. It might even be haunted. But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. So Josh and Amanda do. But these creepy new friends are not exactly what Mom and Dad had in mind. Because they want to be friends--forever"--P. [4] of cover.
6) The grownup
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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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"Leigh Harker is certain her house is haunted. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms outside her bedroom door at night, watching her...waiting for her to finally let down her guard and fall asleep. Despite appearances, despite all logic, Leigh knows she's no longer alone. Pushed to her limits but unwilling to abandon her beloved home, Leigh's determined to find answers. But the more she digs, the more she begins...
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
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A true classic of suspense, this spooky, campy tale tells the story of five strangers who are offered {dollar}10,000 each by an eccentric millionaire to spend the night in a haunted house. As the night develops, it becomes clear that these strangers' selection was no accident--and a few have some diabolical schemes of their own! Starring horror legend Vincent Price, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL is sure to thrill hard-core horror and classic film fans of...
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Milo and Jazz mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Amateur detectives Milo and Jazz try to figure out if the haunted house they are building for the school fair has a real ghost.
11) Amulet
Author
Series
Amulet (Kazu Kibuishi) volume 0
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2008-
Edition
1st edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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After chasing after the tentacled monster that kidnapped their mother, Emily and Navin find themselves in a magical but dangerous world of man-eating demons and shadowy enemies, where they must learn to control a powerful amulet given to them by their inventor grandfather.
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"As the daughter of spiritualists, Mara's childhood was filled with séances and scam mediums. Now she's ready to start over with her fiancé, Neil, far away from the superstitions she's learned to loathe . . . but her past isn't willing to let her go so easily. And neither is Blackwood House. When Mara and Neil purchased the derelict property, they were warned that ever since the murder of its original owner, things have changed. Strange shadows...
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 37
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
440L
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English
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Loving Hill House, an enormous tourist attraction that is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old headless boy, Duane and Stephanie decide to search for the ghost's head and get the biggest scare of their lives.
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It was expecting them.
Conrad and Joanna Harrison, a young couple from Los Angeles, attempt to save their marriage by leaving the pressures of the city to start anew in a quiet, rural setting. They buy a Victorian mansion that once served as a haven for unwed mothers, called a birthing house. One day when Joanna is away, the previous owner visits Conrad to bequeath a vital piece of the house's historic heritage, a photo album that he claims "belongs...
16) Deadly gift
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Flynn brothers trilogy volume 3
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English
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An outsider in a world of extraordinary wealth, Caer Donahue must learn who can be trusted...and who should be feared
Caer is spending this Christmas among strangers. Brought to Newport, Rhode Island, from her native Ireland to nurse ailing millionaire Sean O'Riley, she's living a life few can imagine. But money can't hide the tension between O'Riley's trophy wife, his paranoid daughter, the eccentric aunt in the attic and the staff members who...
Caer is spending this Christmas among strangers. Brought to Newport, Rhode Island, from her native Ireland to nurse ailing millionaire Sean O'Riley, she's living a life few can imagine. But money can't hide the tension between O'Riley's trophy wife, his paranoid daughter, the eccentric aunt in the attic and the staff members who...
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Atavist magazine volume issue 51
Publisher
Atavist
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
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When Frank Milliken died in his home, his wife Janet and their two children couldn't bear to live among reminders of him. They left their home in California and moved to Pennsylvania to start over in new surroundings. The house they bought, an airy colonial on a quiet street, seemed idyllic. But once they moved in, things started to go wrong. Odd sounds, strange sensations, whispers from the neighbors; the Millikens began to suspect that their ghosts...
18) No way out
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Series
Shadow House volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
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English
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Four of the orphans who were lured to Larkspur House have made it out of the Shadow House alive, but Poppy, Dash, Azumi, and Dylan are still on the grounds of the estate and far from safety--and unless they solve the mystery of what it is that the house wants from them they may never escape.
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"When David Caine, a celebrated skeptic of the supernatural, is invited by an old friend to spend a month in "the most haunted house in Virginia," he believes the case will be like any other. But the Alexander House is different. Built by a 1700s land baron to contain the madness and depravity of his eldest son, the house is plagued by shadows of the past and the lingering taint of bloodshed. David is certain there will be a way to explain the supernatural...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau,facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.
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