Following the murder-suicide of the Von Dursts, 16-year-old Alex, hired to house-sit their estate, is haunted by two forces, one leading him to discovery, and the other trying to kill him.
Twelve-year-old Lars Olafson's move to his great-aunt's farm near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, brings him friendship with the ghost of an eighteenth-century ancestor who recounts his adventures during the American Revolution, helping Lars adjust to his new home and playing a part in the search for a missing will.
After eleven-year-old Ashley receives the goldstone pendant from her Aunt Jo, she finds she can not only see the future, but that she also now has a stalker, a ghostly presence from the past who is determined to reclaim the stone at whatever the cost.
Introduces some of the creepiest, weirdest spooks, ghouls, and monsters, including their histories, scary games, curses and superstitions, and nightmares of nature and science.
Both Will and his cousin Becky have some adjusting to do when he comes to live with her family after his mother's death, especially when the ghost of a child coal miner begins his insistent haunting of Will.
In the 1930's eleven-year-old Julia goes to spend the summer with her playwright father and finds that he has abandoned her to the care of her pre-occupied stepmother who seems unaware of the strange voices that haunt Julia every night.
