Halloween House

It's Halloween and RJ has come to spend the night with Rebekah and Mouse. What starts out as a quiet night in with scary movies and snacks turns into a visit to one of the scariest haunted houses that the gang has ever encountered. Will they be the only kids to not run away in fear? Or will they have the courage to open the door to the one place that none of their other friends dared to enter?

Ex-burlesque dancer and aspiring author Tamara Garvey just had her world turned upside down. Her best friend died and leaves her as guardian to a teenager. Now, not only is Tamara struggling with her new role but she is also charged with caring for the family home, the Ridaught Plantation known by the locals as the Dead House. To her surprise, the place is already occupied by an angsty ghost named Joey who has a penchant for wearing her clothes and a fascination for paranormal movies and television shows.

When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee. Margaret is not most people. Margaret is staying.

For the town of White Eagle, Montana, the house that served as the subject of ghostly stories by the campfire was a huge old mansion built more than 50 years ago by a wealthy industrialist as a summer home for his wife and five children. The house, void of love and laughter, served as a sort of luxury prison far away from the hustle and bustle of Hartford Harrington’s full and busy life in San Francisco.

Did you know that the Winchester House, where the Winchester Rifle family once lived, is haunted? And no wonder—there's a door that opens to a 15-foot drop into the garden, another plunges you 8 feet into a kitchen sink, and staircases circle back or dead end at the ceiling. In our story, Jesse and his best friend sneak inside just before an earthquake strikes. Experience their thrilling adventure in this middle-grade book about America's famous haunted house. Bestselling authors Ellie Crowe and Scott Peters tackle the mysterious Winchester House during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ...

Everyone knows the house. We all know what happened there. When Alex and his friends tell me they want to go inside, I stupidly say yes. For a chance to be with him. But now that I'm here, each step makes my heart pound louder. The air freezes my skin. And when we utter the words to summon the spirit, everything changes. My whole life I've laughed at the idea of ghosts. But the woman who appears in front of me now is very real. And so are the transformations that occur to my body as she possesses me.

Many researchers associate certain phenomena with episodes of high strangeness. They speak of a curious feeling that comes over the experiencer, an odd silence that falls over the area where the incident occurs and a sense of dislocation from time. In Mysteries in the Mist, author W. T. Watson proposes another marker of the paranormal … mist, fog and clouds! Ranging from cryptids to UFOs to ghosts to mysterious disappearances, Mysteries in the Mist looks at tales of high strangeness and their repeated association with mist, fog and clouds. In these pages, the reader will also encounter ...

Spirits are everywhere, just check over your shoulder... In the short span of a few years, Dan Hammond became a paranormal investigator, discovered clairvoyant abilities, and came face-to-face with malicious earth-bound spirits, poltergeists, non-human entities, and much more. In this openly honest and effectual chronicle, Dan shares his investigations, his thoughts on the afterlife, what it's like to be punched in the face by a ghost, and much more.

This "overstuffed" bundle has just what you need to get through those cold winter nights. It contains the following six books: Back to School, Brat! My Mom’s New Boyfriend is an Alien! My Mom’s New Boyfriend is a Billionaire! My Mom’s New Boyfriend is a Total Jerk! Paying His Debt Daddy’s Trick or Treat Surprise **For readers over the age of 18 years.

After escaping a harsh school where punishment was the lesson of the day, 17-year-old Louisa Ditton is thrilled to find employment as a maid at a boardinghouse. But soon after her arrival at Coldthistle House, Louisa begins to realize that the house's mysterious owner, Mr. Morningside, is providing much more than lodging for his guests. Far from a place of rest, the house is a place of judgment, and Mr. Morningside and his unusual staff are meant to execute their own justice on those who are past being saved.

From Dust Bowl freakshows to modern day existential horror, Deathtripping collects thirty-five short stories written over a twenty-year period. Disturbing, provoking, surreal, absurd, and bitingly morbid, these stories are invitations to a world that wants to swallow the reader whole. Contains the following stories: ROOM 19 • MARKET ADJUSTMENT • THE DUST SEASON • THE MAN WITH THE FACE LIKE A BRUISE • THE PHOTOGRAPHER • THE FUNERALGOER • THE NIGHT THE MOON MADE A SOUND • THE JACKTHIEF • THE SCREAMING ORCHARD • GLOWERS POINT • CRUEL WOMEN WITH WHIPLIKE SMILES • THE SMOKE...

In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of the north. Alone and possibly lost, she meets another woman in the forest. Then everything changes.

Despite dreams of adventures far beyond the Salann shores, seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas has remained at her family’s estate, Highmoor, with her older sister Camille, while their sisters have scattered across Arcannia. When their sister Mercy sends word that the Duchess of Bloem—wife of a celebrated botanist—is interested in having Verity paint a portrait of her son, Alexander, Verity jumps at the chance, but Camille won’t allow it. Forced to reveal the secret she’s kept for years, Camille tells Verity the truth one day: Verity is still seeing ghosts, she just doesn’t know it.

What holiday could bring more warmth to a skeleton’s chest cavity than Halloween? And when you’re a living skeleton who’s not supposed to be seen outside the house, it’s a welcome chance to get some fresh air and rub bony elbows with people. That’s why Sid doesn’t mind wearing a full-body dog suit and going as Scooby-Doo along with Georgia Thackery’s Velma to the Halloween Howl. Sid can’t wait to go through the haunted house - but he gets rattled for real when a genuine dead body is discovered.

Beware! What you bring home might come with an unwanted visitor. Haunted Heirlooms is a collection of bizarre and terrifying experiences from four antique store owners. These dealers found themselves in possession of precious objects - heirlooms. But what made these different from all the others? They came possessed or haunted. From a wing chair that came accompanied by a spirit from The Roaring Twenties who wishes to reclaim what was hers in life to a family whose house has become tormented by a catlike creature larger than their Bernese. A phantom that prowls the garden and visits them in...

Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together with their parents at Mount Hemlock Resort. But when a snowstorm sets in, causing the power to flicker out and the cold to creep closer and closer, the three are forced to settle for hot chocolate and board games by the fire. Ollie, Coco, and Brian are determined to make the best of being snowed in, but odd things keep happening.

The celebration of the pagan festival of Halloween is now a multi-billion dollar merchandiser's market. Fifty percent of Americans will decorate for Halloween (compared to over 80 percent for Christmas). It is now the third most popular party activity, after the Superbowl and New Year's Eve. This is always a difficult time for Christians, especially those with children. It is also a dangerous time for some, since many of the seemingly "harmless" involvements associated with Halloween can also be "entries" for the occult, and can prove very tragic for the unwary.

The castle looms dark against the light of the moon. Giant ravens circle in the sky. The wind whistles through the empty windows. Merlin the magician needs someone to find out what has happened. But who is brave enough to brush the cobwebs aside and go through the heavy doors? Who is smart enough to solve the mystery of how the castle became haunted and return it to its rightful owners? Merlin thinks he knows the answer to these questions.

The Ultimate Ghost Stories Collection is a fully indexed collection of classic ghost stories, read by three Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by Henry James, M.R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton and Washington Irving.

The Halloween House & Other Scary Stories is a short collection of three Halloween-themed stories for young listeners, guaranteed to bring smiles to the faces of children and adults alike. Contents include "The Halloween House", a cautionary poem about the dangers of trick or treating without obeying the rules, "The Nothing That Lives Under My Bed", and "The Skeleton Inside Me". Great for late night bedtime stories.