haunted places

"Casey Slater can't believe her bad luck. Instead of the perfect summer vacation she'd planned, Casey is in a remote country town, where her parents are restoring an old, creaky, creepy house. Worst of all, everyone in town thinks the house is haunted. Soon Casey thinks so, too--a vase explodes, a china cabinet falls over on its own--and it seems like the ghost doesn't want them there. Casey thought she'd be dying of boredom, but now she's scared to death!"--Back cover.

Traces the history of ghosts, focusing on their place in world literature, films, and television, discussing the most popular ghost stories and legends and the way they have been adapted for the modern world.

Discusses Transylvania, describing the features that make it unique.

A tour of seven spooky locations introduces map-reading skills and highlights points of interest, from Dracula's Castle to Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory, on maps of places including the Wicked Woods and the Western Terror-tories.

Rachel Baker and her friend, David Rydell, visit a new wax museum with their class and learn the museum may be haunted.

Emily moves with her family from Chicago to the country where she is drawn to a mysterious playhouse she finds in the woods, and it is not long before she meets the painted house's sad, lonely inhabitant.

Staying with their aunts over the summer, Neil Cady, his sister Bree, and their new friends Wesley and Eric, set out to explore Greylock Hall, an abandoned psychiatric hospital which is supposed to be haunted by the ghost of Nurse Janet.

Terrifying tales about New York's spookiest spots!.

A heavy snowstorm traps the students inside Eerie Elementary, a living, breathing monster brought to life by mad scientist, Orson Eerie--soon the school begins to freeze from the inside out, and Sam, Lucy and Antonio must find a way to get the heat back on before all the students freeze to death, while facing the truth that Orson Eerie is even more powerful and dangerous than they realized.

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?.