18 books like The Whispering Skull

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The Hollow Boy Jonathan Stroud · 2015 · ★ 4.4 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines. There is a new spirit of openness in the team now that Lockwood has… Shares Mysteries & Detective Stories, HORROR & GHOST STORIES, Psychic ability, Physicians
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The Screaming Staircase Jonathan Stroud · 2013 · ★ 4.3 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate *Follows three young operatives of a Psychic Detection Agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.* This book is part of a brilliant series for children (and parents) who love to be creeped out. It’s set in London when the city is experiencing an outbreak of ghosts who kill people if they come into contact with them. The catch: only children can see them. These stories features the… Shares Psychic ability, Physicians, London, Ghost Stories
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The Creeping Shadow Jonathan Stroud · 2016 · ★ 5.0 · 552p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "A terrible crime forces Lockwood to turn to Lucy for help, setting them on the trail of dark secrets at the heart of London society. Both professionally and personally, their investigation stirs up forces they may not be able to control. . ."-- Shares Mysteries & Detective Stories, HORROR & GHOST STORIES, Psychic ability, Ghost Stories
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Christina's Ghost Betty Ren Wright · 1985 · ★ 3.5 · 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, Mystery, Children's fiction
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The Time of the Ghost Diana Wynne Jones · 1981 · ★ 3.7 · 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
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Ghost story Peter Straub · 1979 · ★ 4.0 · 507p · ≈ 16h · Moderate In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress. He is anxious, tormented, introspective. She is calm, passive, strangely detached. She says her name is Angie Maule. Shares Paranormal, Horror, Mystery
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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 Psychic ability, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Supernatural
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Remember me 3 Christopher Pike · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 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… Shares Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Horror, Children's fiction
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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
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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,… Shares Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Horror, Children's fiction
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The Ghost Belonged to Me Richard Peck · 1975 · ★ 5.0 · 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
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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 Psychic ability, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Supernatural
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The shadow cabinet Maureen Johnson · 2015 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "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 London, Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Mystery
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The Book of Accidents Chuck Wendig · 2021 · ★ 3.7 · 540p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains… Shares Supernatural, Paranormal, Horror, Mystery
The September House
The September House Carissa Orlando · 2023 · ★ 3.9 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would… Shares Paranormal, Horror, Mystery
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The ghost wore gray Bruce Coville · 1988 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Ghost Stories, Ghosts, Children's fiction with this book.
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Melusine Lynne Reid Banks · 1988 · ★ 4.0 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A teenaged boy becomes embroiled in the mysterious life of a farm girl while on vacation in the south of France. Shares Supernatural, Paranormal, Mystery, Children's fiction
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Clay David Almond · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 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

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