18 books like Byways of ghost-land
The Clock Tower Ghost (Faber Children's Classics)
Awful Amanda, a mean, spiteful, greedy bully, finds herself living in a clock tower that is haunted by the ghost of a proud, rich man with a strangely familiar face.
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Bumps in the night
When he discovers his house is haunted, Dudley Stork enlists the help of his friends to find out what is causing the spooky noises.
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True Irish Ghost Stories
A compilation of true accounts from all over Ireland presents eerie stories about haunted houses, banshees, poltergeists, and other ghostly and strange phenomena that celebrates the tradition of Ireland.
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The ghosts
In the garden of their new home, a brother and sister meet two strange children with whom they return to another century.
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Ghosts!
Presents seven, easy-to-read ghost stories based on traditional folk tales and legends from various countries.
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Short & shivery
Thirty hair-raising tales, selected from international ghostlore, have been skillfully retold especially for young people. Eerie black-and-white illustrations, ghastly details, and strong, shuddery endings make these the kind of stories young readers crave. Famous stories like "The Robber Bridegroom" by the Brothers Grimm, "Tailypo," and "The Golem" are included, as well as retellings of stories…
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Even More Short & Shivery
A collection of scary traditional tales from all over the world.
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Doomed
"The continued adventures of Madison, the heroine of DAMNED, who escapes Hell and comes back to Earth"--
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Gus and the baby ghost
Gus, the ghost, and Mr. Frizzle, the museum keeper, have a difference of opinion about the baby ghost abandoned on the museum doorstep.
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Medieval Ghost Stories
"Medieval Ghost Stories is a collection of ghostly occurences from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries; they have been found in monastic chronicles and preaching manuals, in sagas and heroic poetry, and in medieval romances. In a religious age, the tales bore a peculiar freight of spooks and spirituality which can still make hair stand on end; unfailingly, these stories give a fascinating and…
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More Short & Shivery
A collection of scary folktales from the United States, China, England, Italy, Russia, and other countries around the world.
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Galápagos
Observed by a ghost of the Vietnam War for one million years, the descendants of survivors of a cruise to the Galapagos Archipielago prove Darwin's Theory of Evolution. The ghost of a shipbuilder tells the story of an ill-fated cruise to the Galapagos Islands.
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The Shadow Guests
A young boy arrives at his cousin's home in England unprepared for the supernatural furor his presence unleashes.
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A Fine and Private Place
This classic ghost story from the author of The Last Unicorn follows Jonathan who’s been living in a cemetery with a raven as his only friend amongst the newly dead until he discovers a pair of ghostly lovers bearing an extraordinary gift—the final chance for his own happiness.For nineteen years, Jonathan Rebeck has hidden from the world within the confines of a Bronx’s cemetery, making an…
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I Shall Wear Midnight
the beloved and bestselling grandmaster of fantasy, Sir Terry Pratchett, this is the fourth in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.
As the witch of the Chalk, Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone—or something—is inciting fear, generating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Tiffany must find the…
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Rodney Stone
From the book:On this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warn-ings which tell us that it has outworn us. We put our grizzled heads together, we older ones, and we talk of the great days that we have known; but we find that when it is with our children that we talk it is a hard matter to make…
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I'll never get out of this world alive
It's 1963 and in a rented room, in the red-light district of San Antonio, Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams. Doc, rumoured to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him, supports his own morphine habit. Having lost his licence to practise medicine, he performs abortions and patches up the odd knife or gunshot wound. Then, when he meets Graciela, a young Mexican…
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Witch
For Ellen March, the secluded old house nestled in the pine woods is more than the dream home she's long been searching for. It's an escape, a chance to start over, to forget the pain of her failed marriage and enjoy the restful pace of small-town living. Here, too, is a golden opportunity to get to know Norman McKay, her handsome and worldly new neighbor. But after dark in Ellen's "perfect"…
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