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--• Horror Fiction •--
Ghosts & Hauntings
These titles are located throughout the library; please find the location in the catalog by clicking on the title.
Bunting, Eve - The Ghosts of Departure Point
(113 pages) On a dangerous curve of road known as Departure Point, twelve people have lost their lives. Vicki should know—she’s one of the dead, doomed to haunt Departure Point until she can somehow stop the carnage. (K)
Bunting, Eve - The Presence
(195 pages) While visiting her grandmother in California, seventeen-year-old Catherine comes in contact with a mysterious stranger who says he can help her contact a friend who died in a car crash for which Catherine feels responsible. (N)
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki – A Stir of Bones
(211 pages) Outwardly privileged, secretly abused, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom finds a strange solace in investigating a After discovering the secrets that lie in an abandoned house, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom, with the help of some new friends, has the ability to make a safe, new life for herself. (N)
Jenkins, A.M. – Beating Heart: A Ghost Story
(244 pages) When Evan moves into an old house with his newly divorced mother and emotionally needy little sister, he has no way of knowing that his new home is already occupied—by the ghost of a sixteen-year-old girl whose untimely death links her to the house, and to Evan. As Evan’s relationship with his girlfriend progresses, he doesn’t realize that it begins to mirror the doomed relationship of the ghost. Nor does he realize he’s being watched, day and night, by a presence that believes he’s her long lost love. (K)
Levithan, David – Marly’s Ghost
(163 pages) After his girlfriend, Marly, dies Ben wants nothing to do with love and romance. Then on Valentine’s Day, Ben is visited by several ghosts who take him on a painful journey—through Valentines Day past, present and yet to come. (K)
Nixon, Joan Lowery – The Haunting
(184 pages) After inheriting a Civil War manor and reading the diary of Charlotte, a long dead resident of the plantation, teenaged Lia discovers a dark supernatural presence lingering in her family’s new estate. (K)
Nixon, Joan Lowery – Whispers from the Dead
(180 pages) After making contact with the spirit world during a near-death experience, Sarah moves to Houston with her parents and receives otherworldly messages about a murder committed in her house. (N)
Prince, Maggie – The House on Hound Hill
(242 pages) Emily knows there’s something wrong with the dark and gloomy home she and her mother move into after the divorce. Emily can see and hear things others can’t. There is something coming into her home—something she can see and feel—and it brings with it a terrible legacy of pain, sickness, and death. (K)
Reiss, Kathryn – Dreadful Sorry
(340 pages) Seventeen-year-old Molly is plagued by nightmares and visions of a girl who died over eighty years ago. (N)
Soto, Gary – Afterlife
(161 pages) A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance. (N)
Wallace, Rich – Restless: A Ghost’s Story
(167 pages) Frank, a teenaged ghost who has not been able to move on to a higher realm in the afterlife, tries to connect with his younger brother Herbie, a high school senior who was eight years old when Frank died. (N)
Whitcomb, Laura – A Certain Slant of Light
(282 pages) After 130 years of never being seen, heard or able to touch the physical world beyond a whisper, a ghost named Helen becomes aware of another like herself. This other—a young man named James—has managed to take over the body of a spiritless teenage boy, and with his guidance and love, Helen begins to experience the joy of life, even in death. (K)
Key
(N)= Synopsis by NoveList
(K)= Synopsis by Librarian
(LC)= Synopsis taken from Library Catalog
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