18 books like Behind the Attic Wall
The Watch House
While spending the summer with her old nurse on the north English coast, a teen-age girl discovers that her presence in the nearby Watch House, a museum containing relics of shipwrecks and rescues, releases a powerful and evil ghost.
Shares: Houses, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Raggedy Ann Stories
RAGGEDY ANN STORIES Written & Illustrated by JOHNNY GRUELLE [Illustration] LITTLE SIMON New York London Toronto Sydney [Illustration] PREFACE AND DEDICATION As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann! The same Raggedy Ann with which my mother played when a child. There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose jointed, looking me…
Shares: Dolls, Children's fiction
The Best Ghost Stories Ever
The empty house / by Algernon Blackwell
The monkey's paw / by W.W. Jacobs
The legend of Sleepy Hollow / by Washington Irving
Masque of the Red Death / by Edgar Allan Poe
The judge's house / by Bram Stoker
A ghost story / by Jerome K. Jerome
The yellow wallpaper / by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The romance of certain old clothes / by Henry James
The story of Clifford House / by Anonymous.
Shares: Houses, Juvenile audience, Ghost Stories, Ghosts
The shadow cabinet
"Rory, Callum and Boo are still reeling from a series of tragic events, while new dangers lurk around the city from Jane and her nefarious organization"--
Rory, Callum, and Boo are still reeling from a series of tragic events while new dangers lurk around the city from Jane and her nefarious organization. The plot contains mild profanity and violence. Book #3
Shares: Boarding schools, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The Ghost Belonged to Me
In this story set in 1913, Blossom Culp, Alexander Armsworth, adventurer Miles Armsworth, and Blossom's spiritualist mother set out to exorcise a ghost.
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Gespensterjäger
German-language description:
Ein schleimiges Gespenst sitzt im Keller! Tom will nur noch eines: flüchten. Doch da bietet ihm die erfahrene Gespensterjägerin Hedwig Kümmelsaft ihre Hilfe an und Tom traut sich, das Gespenst zu verjagen.
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Timid nine-year-old Tom Tomsky reluctantly agrees to help professional ghostbuster Hetty Camomile dispel an IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) from an…
Shares: Houses, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Christina's Ghost
Christina's summer in a spooky, isolated Victorian house with her grumpy uncle turns into a ghostly adventure.
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The ghost wore gray
Nina ("Nine") Tanleven and her best buddy Chris Gurley are having a hard time. The play that led to them meeting a ghost and unraveling a mystery has ended. Now the rest of the summer looms ahead, looking dull after their great adventure.Luckily, Nine's dad gets a job designing the restoration of an old – and distressingly run down – hotel in the Catskill Mountains. Nine and Chris are more than…
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Racketty-packetty house
Neglected by their owner, the dolls of Racketty-Packetty house manage to save themselves and their home with the aid of the Fairy Queen.
Shares: Dolls, Children's fiction
Octagon Magic
A shy, friendless little girl seeks refuge with the friendly occupants of a strange eight-sided house.
Shares: Houses, Children's fiction
Sami and the time of the troubles
A ten-year-old Lebanese boy goes to school, helps his mother with chores, plays with his friends, and lives with his family in a basement shelter when bombings occur and fighting begins on his street.
Shares: Family life, Families, Children's fiction
The Mystery of the Singing Ghost
While helping fix up the old house their cousins have bought, the Aldens hear stories about its being haunted and find evidence suggesting that there may be a ghost there.
Shares: Orphans, Ghost Stories, Families, Ghosts
Remember me 3
Someone did not like Shari Cooper writing her stories.
Shari Cooper had died once, and then returned to earth as a Wanderer - a soul who had been given permission to take the place of another soul in a mature body. Shari has regained her memory of her previous life. More than that, she has realized her purpose in returning to mortal life. To write stories for young people to help them understand…
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The Headless Ghost
Everyone knows about Hill House. It's the biggest tourist attraction in town. That's because it's haunted. Haunted by the ghost of a thirteen-year-old boy. A boy with no head! Duane and Stephanie love Hill House. It's dark. And creepy. And totally scary. Still, they've never actually seen the ghost. Until the night they decide to go on a search. A search for his head...
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The house of the nightmare, and other eerie tales
CONTENTS:
1 - FROM IMAGINATION
The House Of The Nightmare by Edward Lucas White
The Hauntings At Thorhallstead by Allen French
His Own Number by William Croft Dickinson
Gabriel-Ernest by Saki
Hand In Glove by Elizabeth Bowen
Mr. Fox (traditional english tale) by Anonymous
Curfew by L.M. Boston
John Bartine's Watch by Ambrose Bierce
The Monkey's Paw by W.W.Jacobs
My Grandfather, Hendry Watty by…
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The name of the star
Thrilling ghost-hunting teen mystery as modern-day London is plagued by a sudden outbreak of brutal murders that mimic the horrific crimes of Jack the Ripper. A gorgeously written, chilling, atmospheric thriller.
Shares: Boarding schools, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
The Ghost Town Mystery
While visiting a recent purchase of Grandfather's, a ghost town in the Rocky Mountains, the Aldens encounter a mystery involving a run-down motel and a woman who may be a ghost.
Shares: Orphans, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Gus was a friendly ghost
A ghost and a mouse have a summer house all to themselves while the folks are away for the winter.
Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction