occultism

"When Jake Green opens a mysterious box containing a severed finger, he accidentally summons a grim reaper intent on dragging him to the Eternal Void (yes, it's as fatal as it sounds). Now Jake is running for his life. Luckily, he has a knack for talking to ghosts, which just might help him survive long enough to reach the Embassy of the Dead and plead his case. With the help of a prankster poltergeist and a dead undertaker, Jake dodges fearsome undead creatures, discovers his own ghostly abilities, and gets excused from the school field trip due to a terrible (and made-up) bout of diarrhea. But the Embassy has its own problems, and Jake must be very careful where he places his trust--in both the living and the dead"--Provided by publisher.

Two little girls have magical adventures with a strange assortment of items they find in a locked drawer.

While on a camping trip to an isolated beach on the Scottish coast, Heather's friends suffer the wrath of a malevolent spirit, and a year later, Heather remains imprisoned in a facility, refusing to admit guilt.

A conclusion to the trilogy that includes THE HIDDEN WITCH finds Aster defying tradition by competing in an annual witch tournament, while Ariel struggles to connect the mysterious witch of her nightmares to her own past.

After Andromeda Klein's tarot card readings prove to be accurate, she discovers clues to secret truths connected to her family and friends, but things become stranger when Andromeda's dead friend Daisy starts to harass her.

Describes some of history's most amazing illusions, and provides instructions on how to re-create eighteen of these tricks, including information on how to hypnotize friends, test a house for ghosts, make a fake UFO photograph and video, and other convincing hoaxes.

Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.

Darkness descends on an empty playground. Squeak, squeak. Squeak, squeak. A swing slowly begins to move back and forth. Is the wind pushing it? Then the swing flies higher and higher in the air. Yet no one is around. Suddenly, there's the pitter-patter of small feet and the faint sound of a child's laughter. Has a spirit come to play?.

A war is brewing among the different Houses, some of Sierra's shadowshapers are still in jail, and the House of Shadow and Light has been getting threatening messages from whisper wraiths, and even though one spy was exposed Sierra is not quite sure who she can trust--but the deal with Death made by one of her ancestors has given her power, and she will need to control it and confront her family's past if she has any hope of saving the future.

Christopher Rowe is shipwrecked in Devonshire, where children are disappearing and a ghost is suspected, but even Tom and Sally's arrival may not cure his amnesia in time to help.