haunted houses

Daniel is desperate for a fresh start at life, so when someone slides a note under his door offering him the groundskeeper's position at an old estate, it seems too good to be true. Alarm bells start ringing when he arrives at Craven Manor. The mansion's front door hangs open, and leaves and cobwebs coat the marble foyer. It's clear no one has lived there in a long time, but he has nowhere else to go. Against his better judgment, he moves into the groundskeeper's cottage behind the crypt. But when a candle flickers to life in the abandoned tower window, Daniel realizes Craven Manor is hiding a terrible secret, one that threatens to bury him with it.

Sophie's world is shattered when disaster bankrupts her family. Marrying the mysterious Mr. Argenton may restore her family's fortunes and save them from scandal, but it condemns Sophie to a life in Northwood, a vast and unnaturally dark mansion situated hours from civilization. Still, she must do her duty. As time passes, Sophie struggles to adjust to her new position as mistress over the desolate house. Mr. Argenton's relatives are cold, and Mr. Argenton himself is keeping secrets. Even worse, the house is more than it seems.

Logan might be new to Earth, but he already has a terrestrial best friend named Abby. She's figured out his secret identity, and is excited to help him observe humans in their natural habitat. When all of his neighbors are invited to a party at the creepiest house on the street, Logan watches as they give in to their deepest fears before they even enter the house. Can Logan come up with a plan to uncover the truth behind the biggest mystery on the block?.

Ginny is unhappy when her family moves from Chicago to upstate Michigan for the summer; her father has a job restoring a 1930s mansion, but there are rumors about Woodmoor and the forest next to it: rumors about strange mutant creatures; Ginny, an aspiring mystery writer, is soon half convinced that the rumors are true, because something or someone is haunting the house--and she plans to investigate, with the help of Will, the older boy who lives nearby.

"When Jasmine moves to Gold River after her mother's death, she finds herself powerfully drawn to the Carlisle, an abandoned hotel on the edge of town. . . It's local tradition in Gold River for kids to try to stay a night in the Carlisle without being scared away. When Jasmine hears about this, she convinces her friends to join her. . . Only...The building isn't abandoned. There are plenty of people staying there--dead people. And once you walk into the hotel, they will do everything possible to stop you from checking out"--Provided by publisher.

Despite the gates and barbed wire, the Outfit decides to investigate the old mansion in the Weeping Woods. Inside, they discover something truly sinister. Investigate alongside them in this high/low adventure.

In 1950, Noem? Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newly married cousin indicating someone is trying to poison her, prompting Noem? to quickly travel to High Place, an isolated mansion in the countryside. Noem?, a glamorous socialite, doesn't know if she can be a sleuth and uncover the truth about her cousin's new English husband, but as she explore the house and gets to know its denizens, she comes to believe that the house itself may be acting against her finding the truth.

Investigates haunted houses, describing signs of possible ghosts, ghostly sightings, haunted places around the world, possible explanations, and more.

Maggie Holt's father bequeaths an old Victorian mansion to her after he dies--a mansion that is supposedly haunted. Maggie barely remembers when her family lived there--a mere three weeks--before they fled in the middle of the night. Her father even wrote a book about the experience, which became a best-seller. Maggie doesn't believe the house is haunted, but does want to renovate it, in order to sell it, and hopes put to rest some of the memories of the past. The house, however, has other plans.

Ginny is unhappy when her family moves from Chicago to upstate Michigan for the summer; her father has a job restoring a 1930s mansion, but there are rumors about Woodmoor and the forest next to it: rumors about strange mutant creatures; Ginny, an aspiring mystery writer, is soon half convinced that the rumors are true, because something or someone is haunting the house--and she plans to investigate, with the help of Will, the older boy who lives nearby.