ghosts

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Ghost abbey

1988
When her father's new job takes the entire family to a dilapidated old abbey in England, twelve-year-old Maggi discovers that both she and the building are haunted by ghosts from their pasts.

Uncle Jacob's ghost story

1986
Paul discovers the story of his Great Uncle Jacob, the black sheep of the family, who believed that the ghosts of two beloved friends followed him when he emigrated from Poland to America.

The screaming skull

true stories of the unexplained
1987
Presents fourteen accounts of documented, mysterious occurrences involving ghosts, poltergeists, unexplained appearances and disappearances of people, as well as unexplained mysteries such as the Shroud of Turin.

Devil's race

1995
Sixteen-year-old John Proud is tormented by the ghost of an evil ancestor, with his own name and his own face, who was hanged in 1854 for being a demon.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker
1992
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.

Ghost flower

2012
Runaway Eve, having agreed to impersonate a girl named Aurora who disappeared three years earlier in order to help her cousins gain her inheritance, is haunted by the ghost of Aurora's best friend, who died on the night she went missing, and races against time to find out what really happened to Aurora and stop a killer from claiming her as a victim.

Rose's dilemma

a play
2004
Writer Rose Steiner, who is suffering from writers' block and needs money, decides to finish her dead lover's novel; meanwhile Rose's daughter and assistant falls in love with Gavin Clancy, a young author.

Ghost ship

a novel
2006
Twelve-year old Vicki, and her friend, Peter, try to solve the mystery of the appearance of a ghost ship, "Storm Goddess, " and its eighteenth-century figurehead, when supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort casts the tourist town in a two-hundred-year-old legend.

The big book of New York ghost stories

2009
A collection of over 100 stories of ghosts and other strange occurrences around the state of New York.

A gathering of shades

2005
Having moved with his mother to a remote corner of Vermont after his father's death, sixteen-year-old Aidan learns much about his family, including that ghosts inhabit an ancient orchard on the family farm, sustained by his grandmother.

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