Ghost Stories And Horror category: 2405 books

Move over, Christmas Carol—here’s a new holiday ghost story! It's Christmas Eve, and Kaye’s family is on the way to her grandmother’s house in a swirling snowstorm. Suddenly the car hits a patch of ice. It slides across the road and skids into a snow-filled ditch! Through the car window,...

American history mixes with legend in four classic ghost tales for Step 4 early readers: a Cape Cod ghost horse that leads ships away from danger; a portrait that protests being moved within Virginia’s Shirley Plantation museum; a Colorado miner who continued to look for love even after his bones...

There's been an accident! Something's wrong! She doesn't know who she is, and doesn't know why she's invisibly floating through the buildings and grounds of a half-remembered boarding school. Then, to her horror, she encounters the ancient evil that four peculiar sisters have unwittingly woken...

These ten original ghost stories dramatize the history of Chinese immigration to North America -- from the poor village men who first came searching for gold in the late 1850s to the new immigrants who arrived from Hong Kong in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. These stories describe the resilience...

Breast Ghosts is a collection of ghost stories. Malaysian and Indonesian traditions and superstitions pertaining to ghosts are skilfully revealed to the reader as the narrator author relates personal experiences and second hand accounts. A fascinating aspect is that these are contemporary stories...

Ghost Hunter Part 2 of 2: When Alexa Dawn was thirteen-years-old, her parents were murdered by a ghost that she contacted through a game board. It let her live. That was its first mistake. Now Alexa is nineteen and it’s back. This time it’s determined to take out her...

Sixteen-year-old Derek wants nothing more than a fresh start in his new home. But that isn't what he's about to get and his hopes for new beginnings are dashed the minute he enters the house. What he is about to get are some trouble-making ghost hunters and a spirit seeking violent revenge for a hidden...

Iris is ready for another hot, routine summer in her small Louisiana town, hanging around the Red Stripe grocery with her best friend, Collette, and traipsing through the cemetery telling each other spooky stories and pretending to cast spells. Except this summer, Iris doesn’t have to make up a...

A young man fights to save his father from a spirit’s curse in the epic finale to a series starring “a terrific hero” (The New York Times) The sea is calm, the air is fresh, and the bobbing boat feels like a living creature underneath Johnny Dixon’s feet. Johnny hardly ever sees his...

Get Goosebumps with the startling repackage of a best-selling classic. No swimming. No surfing. No haunting. Jerry can't wait to explore the dark, spooky old cave he found down by the beach. Then the other kids tell him a story. A story about a ghost who is three hundred years old. A ghost who comes...

She woke up, all alone, scared, tired, confused. Where was everyone? Why couldn't she leave the amusement park? Why was she consumed with grief every time she came near the shattered roller coaster track? Finally she realized she was dead, but still could not remember anything about herself, not even her name. Would it be like this forever? This is a short story.

Being a paranormal investigator I have been able to go look for things that go bump in the night. Then I started to think, what if the bump tried bumping you. And Ghost Hunted was made. I took people I knew to develop the characters in the book. A lot of people think I would fashion the main character...

Liz is staying with her grandmother in her old house in the woods of northern Minnesota when one night a noise awakens her. It is someone calling her name, calling for Elizabeth. Liz opens her eyes. There is a blue ghost in her room! What does the ghost want from her? This exciting mystery by Newbery Honor writer Marion Dane Bauer is perfect for first chapter-book readers.

Inspired by the hit television series "Ghost Trackers," this ghostly tome invites readers to explore the mysteries that haunt us all: ghostly histories, how to equip yourself to explore a haunted house, the latest on what the scientists think. All this and much more is packed into this fascinating...