18 books like Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
Shares: Shorthand, Texts, New york, Ghosts
The king of the Golden River; or, The black brothers
Through kindness a boy regains for himself the treasure his cruel older brothers lost.
Shares: Shorthand, Texts, History
Storm
Annie lives with her elderly parents in a remote cottage. One night with the phone lines down, she must overcome her fear of the ghost who is said to haunt the area, and brave the storm alone. Who is the mysterious horseman who helps her out?
Shares: Texts, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
The reminiscences of a young girl growing up in early nineteenth-century England.
Shares: Short Stories, History, Children's fiction
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy…
Shares: New york, Ghosts, History, Children's fiction
The little bookroom
Collects twenty-seven of Eleanor Farjeon's stories, which include kings, princesses, servants, a mysterious flower, orphans, enchanted woods, an organ-grinder, giants, a little dressmaker, fairies, and a kindly farmer.
Shares: Short Stories, Children's fiction
Tik-Tok of Oz
This book introduces Ann Soforth, Queen of Oogaboo, whom Tik-Tok, the clockwork man, assists in conquering the Nome King. Book 8 in L. Frank Baum's immortal OZ series, in which Betsy Bobbin and Hank the Mule are shipwrecked on the coast of Oz, meet up with the invading army of Queen Ann of Oogaboo, and help the Shaggy Man rescue his brother from the evil Nome King.
Shares: American Fantasy fiction, 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: Ghosts, Children's fiction
Missing Angel Juan
Witch Baby follows Angel Juan to New York City and meets the ghost of her almost grandfather Charlie Bat.
Shares: New york, Ghosts, Children's fiction
Ghost Stories
An illustrated collection of scary stories.
Shares: Ghosts, Short Stories, Children's fiction
Inheritance
Not so very long ago, Eragon -- Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider -- was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront…
Shares: American Fantasy fiction, 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: 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: Ghosts, Children's fiction
A Prisoner in Fairyland
In the train, even before St. John's was passed, a touch of inevitable reaction had set in, and Rogers asked himself why he was going. For a sentimental journey was hardly in his line, it seemed. But no satisfactory answer was forthcoming — none, at least, that a Board or a Shareholders' Meeting would have considered satisfactory. The old vicar spoke to him strangely. "We've not forgotten you as…
Shares: New york, Children's fiction
The pushcart war
The outbreak of a war between truck drivers and pushcart peddlers brings the mounting problems of traffic to the attention of both the city of New York and the world.
Shares: New york, Children's fiction
This Book Is Haunted
This book's "not too scary" ghost host tells five spooky stories.
Shares: Ghosts, Short Stories, Children's fiction
9 From the Nine Worlds
Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase series star in these short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology.
The Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy may have concluded, but we haven't heard the last of our favorite peeps from the Nine Worlds.
Join Hearthstone, Blitzen, Samirah, Alex, Jack, T.J., Mallory, Halfborn, and more on a hilarious and…
Shares: Short Stories, Children's fiction
Zombie town
"The zombie with the missing eye stood at the front of the stage. But it wasn't alone anymore. At least ten more zombies had joined it"--Page 4 of cover.
Shares: Ghosts, Children's fiction