18 books like The Summoning

What to read after The Summoning — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Book of the Dead E. A. Wallis Budge · 1894 · ★ 3.9 · 43p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The Book of the Dead is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found cut or painted on walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted on coffins and sarcophagi and rolls… Shares: Death

The Time of the Ghost Diana Wynne Jones · 1981 · ★ 3.8 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate From Publishers Weekly Published in Great Britain in 1981 and available here for the first time, this gripping novel serves up often giddily hilarious fantasy that nonetheless deals unflinchingly with some ugly issues. At least twice in the course of the multi-layered narrative, the heroine has not the faintest idea who she is?a powerful metaphor for the novel's underlying theme of alienation… Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Supernatural, Paranormal

The Ghost Belonged to Me Richard Peck · 1975 · ★ 4.8 · 183p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 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

Remember me 3 Christopher Pike · 1995 · ★ 3.0 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 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, Horror, Children's fiction

The Headless Ghost Robert Lawrence Stine · 1995 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate 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, Horror, Children's fiction

The house of the nightmare, and other eerie tales Kathleen Lines · 1967 · ★ 3.6 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 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, Horror, Children's fiction

Christina's Ghost Betty Ren Wright · 1985 · ★ 3.9 · 105p · ≈ 3h · Moderate 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 Bruce Coville · 1988 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate 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

The Haunting Margaret Mahy · 1982 · ★ 3.6 · 135p · ≈ 4h · Moderate After a shy and rather withdrawn eight-year-old begins receiving frightening supernatural images and messages, he learns about a family legacy which could be considered a curse or a rare gift. Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Supernatural, Paranormal

Clash of the Demons Joseph Delaney · 2009 · ★ 4.5 · 405p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Tom is reunited with his mother and must return to Greece to face a new and terrible threat from the dark forces, and a momentous decision must be made, causing a serious rift between Tom and the Spook that threatens to separate them forever. Shares: Mothers, Ghosts, Supernatural, Children's fiction

Clay David Almond · 2005 · ★ 3.6 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Fourteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, are altar boys at their local Catholic Church. They're full of mischief, but that all changes when Stephen Rose comes to town. Father O'Mahoney thinks it would be a good idea for Davie and Geordie to befriend him--maybe some of their good nature will rub off on this unhappy soul. But it's Stephen who sees something special in Davie.Stephen's a… Shares: Supernatural, Paranormal, Horror, Children's fiction

Contaminated Em Garner · 2013 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that renders something unsuitable, unfit or harmful for the physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc. Shares: Mothers, Children's fiction

The Awakening Kelley Armstrong · 2009 · ★ 3.7 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl — someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I'm as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment — not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called the Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters, I'm a teenage necromancer whose… Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Supernatural, Paranormal

Ghostly companions Vivien Alcock · 1984 · ★ 3.5 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate From Publishers Weekly Alcock's fans will be well-spooked by the strange events in this anthology of wonderfully eerie stories. In "The Whisperer," a small girl who has been dead for years haunts her older brother with continuous whispers of "Let me in, please let me in," until an outsider shows the family what the restless spirit wants. A lad buys "The Sea Bride," a ship's figurehead, only to… Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Supernatural, Paranormal

Gus was a friendly ghost Jane Thayer · 1962 · ★ 4.2 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate 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

The Reckoning Kelley Armstrong · 2010 · ★ 3.8 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Grade 8 Up Fifteen-year-old Chloe Saunders and her friends Tori, Simon, and Derek are genetically altered supernaturals on the run from the evil corporation that created them. Hiding out with a family friend, they are trying to make sense of their predicament and discover what sinister plans the Edison Group has in store for them. As a powerful necromancer who can raise the dead in her sleep,… Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Supernatural, Paranormal

A ghost named Wanda Dan Greenburg · 1996 · ★ 4.4 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate My room is a mess. Now, usually this is not big news. But my clothes have started moving...when I'm not inside them. And the TV is floating across the room! Guess what! I'm sharing my room with a ghost named Wanda. Shares: Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Supernatural, Paranormal

The Midnight Star Marie Lu · 2016 · ★ 4.1 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen. Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She's turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness within her has begun to spiral out of control, threatening to… Shares: Ability, Supernatural, Paranormal, Children's fiction

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