Ghostly Book List

 

YA/CAB/PB Cabot, Meg. Twilight Series: Mediator

Summary: Sixteen-year-old California teenager, Suze Simon is a typical high school student except for the fact that she is a "shifter" who can mediate between the living and the dead, and she is in love with a ghost from the nineteenth century.

 

YA 393/COLM Colman, Penny Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts : A History of Burial

Summary: Documents the burial process throughout the centuries and in different cultures.

 

J/DEFELICE DeFelice, Cynthia C. The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs

Summary: Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.

 

YA/EME/PB Emert, Phyllis Raybin. Ghosts, Hauntings and Mysterious Happenings Short Stories

Contents: The haunted battlefield --- A mother's warning -- The ghosts of West Point -- A feeling of dread -- Nothing but trouble -- D.D. Home -- Ghost toys -- Fire! -- Edgar Cayce -- Disaster at sea -- The haunted family -- The Tower of London -- Ghost of a young man -- The drums of death -- The lady in white, and more.

 

J/FUN/PB Funke, Cornelia Caroline Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost

Summary: A timid boy named Tom reluctantly agrees to help professional ghostbuster Hetty Hyssop, dispel an IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) from an old house.

 

YA/HOL/PB Holzer, Hans. In Quest of Ghosts

Summary: From the files of the world's foremost ghost investigator, Prof. Hans Holzer, come amazing stories like these: two roommates living in an old house come face to face with the ghost of a girl who died there long ago. In the White House, visitors and household members report seeing the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. These tales are as spine-tingling as any you've heard around a camp fire, but they're about real ghosts.

 

J/Maguire, J/MAG/PB Maguire, Gregory. Six Haunted Hairdos

Summary: With the help of their favorite teacher, two rival clubs, the all-boy Copycats and the all-girl Tattletales, stop trying to out-do each other long enough to help the ghosts of a baby elephant and a herd of mastodons that appear near their small Vermont town.

 

YA/METZ Metz, Melinda. Raven's Point

Summary: An ancient evil has reawakened on a small island off the coast of Rhode Island, eager to cause death and destruction as it has twice before, but three teens face it with their newly-developed supernatural abilities. Soon Jane, Tavia, and Seth will be forced to learn the truth about their island's violent past -- and their part in it. They are going to have to face the evil that came to life in the place they call home, or Raven's Point and everyone on it will be destroyed.

 

YA/PRATCHETT Pratchett, Terry Johnny and the Dead

Summary: After twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell suddenly starts seeing and talking to ghosts, he and his friends become involved in a battle to save the local cemetery.

 

J/SAN SOUCI San Souci, Robert D. A Terrifying Taste of Short & Shivery : Thirty Creepy Tales

Summary: A collection of scary traditional tales from all over the world, including "Apparitions" from Germany, "The Hundredth Skull" from Ohio, and "The Ogre's Arm" from Japan.

 

J/SNYDER Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. The Trespassers

Summary: Having trespassed and explored the empty Hutchinson mansion, which seems haunted by the presence of a long-dead young girl, sixth grader Neely and her little brother become regular visitors when emotionally disturbed Curtis Hutchinson moves in.

 

YA/VAN/PB Van Belkom, Edo. Be Very Afraid! : More Tales of Horror

Contents: Just one taste / Driving a bargain / Darkness / In your dreams / O Silent Knight of Cards / In the shadows / Virtually friends / Wasting away / Playing the game / The ghosts of Petroska Station / To the lonely sea and sky / The night is yours alone / Monster on his back

 

YA/VANDE VELDE Vande Velde, Vivian. All Hallows' Eve : 13 stories

Summary: Presents thirteen tales of Halloween horrors, including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry.

 

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