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Author
Publication Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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 to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its...
Author
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"The summer of 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster--another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids. 1990. The former detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted...
Author
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
When a house believes she is haunted, she tries everything in her power to stop it in order to get people to move in--until she realizes that she is fine just the way she is.
Author
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
Key DVD
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Vincent Price stars as a millionaire married to a gold digger. Together they host a party in a haunted house in which five guests are invited to spend the night. Each will receive $10,000.00-- but only if they survive until morning.
Author
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A dysfunctional British nuclear family seek a new life away from the big city in the sleepy Somerset countryside. At first their new home, The Hollow, seems to embrace them, creating a rare peace and harmony within the family. But when the house turns on them, it seems to know just how to hurt them the most, threatening to destroy them from the inside out--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Publication Date
[2026]
Language
English
Description
A cultural history of the phenomenon of the 'haunted house' as seen through art, architecture, and ghost stories. What makes a house haunted? Why do some buildings conjure up a reputation for being particularly creepy, while others leave us unmoved? Barring the possibility of a looming afterlife, what are the particular features, contexts, and histories that lend a building the dreaded identity of haunted house? How to Build a Haunted House tours...
11) Haunted houses
Author
Publisher
KidHaven Press
Publication Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines mysterious encounters, haunted houses, and mysterious encounters in haunted houses.
12) Haunted houses
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Publication Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Author
Publication Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
"There are places around the world that people believe are haunted. Houses and mansions are where the living live. Read all about some that might also be homes for the dead!"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Running Wild Press
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The police have some questions for Eddy Sparrow. Questions about a body found at the bottom of a well. As she answers the officer's questions, she mentions a mysterious manuscript hidden in her recently deceased mother's desk drawer. The manuscript is about a young girl named Cat who returns home after her own mother's death to find her house haunted. As Eddy reads Cat's story, her own secrets emerge, and she begins to experience strange phenomena:...
15) Castle Hangnail
Author
Publication Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When little twelve-year-old Molly arrives at Castle Hangnail to fill the vacancy for a wicked witch, the minions who dwell there have no choice but to give her the job, and at first it seems she'll be able to keep the castle open, but Molly has quite a few secrets that could cause trouble.
Author
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse. "It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air." These are the opening lines of the journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel: the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend...
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Publication Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the phenomenon of haunted houses and their ghosts, citing specific examples, and discusses the various theories that seek to explain them, including how they may be faked.
18) The haunted
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When the Perry family moves to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district, they soon discover that something isn't right, and that "something" is ready to come out of the shadows of their basement and into their lives.
Author
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Elle is thrilled to spend a month minding the beautiful Gillespie property. Over an hour's drive from town, the aging mansion is ideal for someone seeking solitude. But things start to go very wrong, very quickly. Elle soon discovers a crumbling graveyard nestled in the woods. It contains a generation of the house's residents, all who died the same year. As Elle investigates further, she begins to unravel the property's dark history. At its center...



