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Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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An American family moves to England, to the infamous Canterville Chase, the ancestral home that2s been haunted for 300 years by the ghost, of Sir Simon de Canterville. When Sir Simon and the family2s teenage daughter Virginia start plotting together to get her family back to New York, she discovers that Sir Simon has been cursed to be bound to the estate. After she uncovers the beautiful and tragic love story of Sir Simon2s beloved wife, Virginia...
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"The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...
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Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"After killing Ruven, a heretic sorcerer, and waking the royal family from an enchanted sleep, Lia, born with a miraculous gift, must marry Prince Araunn and forge a pact with a god--or die, discovering the boy she killed may be her only hope of survival"-- Provided by publisher.
7) A shining
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Publisher
Transit Books
Language
English
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"A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest...
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"In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and nav̐e would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's domineering, philandering husband (famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz); and...
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English
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We live in a rational age in which science and modern technology have removed doubt and ignorance. We no longer fear the dark, we no longer need to use superstitious symbols to protect our houses and families. We know what is happening in the world and are in contact with friends and family who might live miles away. Ours is a rational world… or is it?
These short ghost stories are not set in remote Scottish castles or haunted Victorian houses....
10) The Favour
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English
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When a friend asks Percy to do him a favour, he could never have envisaged the consequences. An unusual romantic ghost story set in the late 1800's.
11) The Grave Phone
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English
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In a suburban home in New York, a man invents a phone that connects the living to the dead. But when he pushes its prongs deep into a grave, he unleashes a horror that no amount of poetry could ever convey.
12) Guitar
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English
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The idea for this story actually happened on Christmas Eve in 1968. Three of my girlfriends and I were riding around in my 1954 Ford, I called her Beulah, and as we made our fifth trip around the Dairy Delite, we began talking about the old house in Matthews. Linda D. shouted from the backseat above the Turtles singing "It Ain't Me Babe" on KTSA AM Radio. I couldn't afford the new FM radios yet, but no matter, it sounded good playing from the twenty...
13) Lark
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English
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Middle of the night.Rocks against a window.A wild ride in a stolen truck.Hide and seek in an old orchard.A mermaid and a ninja.Jake has no idea what is in store for him when he answers the summons of the crazy neighbor girl. Angela. One thing is for certain, it's a night he'll NEVER forget.
14) The Ghost
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English
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Shaji, an IT professional and only son of a wealthy Muslim landlord, helped Sujatha, a Hindu girl, by taking money from his father's locker towards the capitation fee for her engineering college admission in Bangalore. The indebted girl pawned her innocence for his lust. Raju, a classmate of Shaji, who was in the porn business, had an eye on this beautiful girl with frequent mention to Shaji, who never agreed. Once during her visit to the village,...
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English
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This is a story about the group of curious adventurers who went into a mysterious Tower which is rumoured to hide legends of Tower ghosts.This group were led by a retired historian and professor to uncover the hidden truths about this rumours.Although they were curious in their adventures, the journey was chilling to face but the brave professor encouraged them to finish what they have started.
16) Which was Which?
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English
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Two identical men are seen hundreds of miles apart. One is innocent if somewhat arrogant, whilst the other is a demonic killer, but which is which?
17) Shadow
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English
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Haunted by visions, a teenage girl sees a window into what's to come When Sarah's cat, Shadow, is put to sleep, she feels the world crumbling around her. Shadow was her closest companion, and now, just like that, she's gone. Sarah's brother Patrick, in an effort to console her, digs a grave behind the house and holds a funeral. Every afternoon, Sarah sits beside the mound of earth, missing her cat so much that sometimes she feels like Shadow is curled...
18) The Seance
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English
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A haunting tale of apparitions, a cursed manor house, and two generations of women determined to discover the truth, by the author of The Ghost Writer Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there ... Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance's sister, the child she lost.
Desperate to coax her mother back...
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English
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"Spectral Chronicles: 12 Ghost Stories" beckons you into the shadowy realm between the living and the departed, where whispers of the supernatural come alive with each turn of the page. This haunting anthology invites readers to explore the ethereal, the eerie, and the enigmatic as they embark on a spine-tingling journey through a dozen chilling tales.In "Spectral Chronicles," the line between the tangible and the spectral blurs as we encounter spirits...
20) Campfire stories
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 8
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Desmond, Andres, and their ghost-friend Zax take turns trying to tell the scariest story of all while gathered around the campfire on a camping trip.
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