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• Curse of the Boggin

  MacHale, D. J.

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  "It was under the bed. Parents always tell their children there's nothing scary down there, or lurking in the deep depths of a closet, or hiding low in dark shadows. That's what parents always say, and they're right. Most of the time."

• The Girl in the Locked Room

  a Ghost Story

  Hahn, Mary Downing

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  "The girl is alone in the locked room. At first, she writes the days of the week, the month, and the year on a wall. She means to keep a record of her time in the room, but after a while she begins skipping a day or several days. Soon,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Collector

  Alexander, K. R., 1986-

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  "This was not how I wanted summer vacation to end: driving with my mom and my sister through cornfields on our way to my grandmother's house. Not for a fun weekend visit, but for good. I was ready to be bored. I was ready to be lonely. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghost and Bone

  Prentice, Andrew (Andy)

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  "Hold tight, Mr. Jenkinson," Oscar Grimstone said. "I'm just going to lean in a bit here. Don't mind me." Mr. Jenkinson made no reply. But then, his mouth was sewn shut with tiny, invisible stitches, so he couldn't have complained even if…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghost Hunter's Daughter

  Poblocki, Dan,

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  "Clare felt someone watching."

• Ghostlight

  Gensler, Sonia,

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  "We'd only been at Grandma's for five minutes before Blake ruined everything."

• Dead Voices

  Arden, Katherine

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  "Winter in East Evansburg, and just after dusk, five people in a beat-up old Subaru peeled out of town in a snowstorm."

• Scare Me

  Alexander, K. R., 1986-

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  "Nothing scares me. That's why I'm the best at what I do--making haunted houses."

• John Bellairs's Lewis Barnavelt in The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge

  Strickland, Brad

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  "For many months Lewis Barnavelt had been worried."

• Alchemist's Shadow

  Funaro, Gregory,

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  "What took you so long?" the old man croaked, and Bedelia Graves stepped into the darkened study.

• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

  Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-1992

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  "A boy was digging at the edge of the garden when he saw a big toe. He tried to pick it up, but it was stuck to something. So he gave it a good hard jerk, and it came off in his hand. Then he heard something groan and scamper away."

• Dehaunting

  White, J. A.,

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  "A man stood in the corner of Ms. Dalton's social studies classroom. He looked slightly confused, like a visiting parent who had gotten lost. If you didn't know any better, you would have thought he was alive."

• Twelve Minutes to Midnight

  Edge, Christopher

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  "Montgomery Flinch gripped the sides of the reading lectern, his knuckles whitening as he stared out into the darkness of the auditorium. His bristling eyebrows arched and the gleam of his dark eyes seemed to dart across the faces of each…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zombie, or Not to Be

  Sullivan, Kyle, 1982-

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  "Once upon a time, something was rotten in the state of Deadmark. But of course there was: Deadmark was filled with zombies, like me."

• A Monster Calls

  Ness, Patrick, 1971-

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  "The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do."

• The Ghost Collector

  Mills, Allison

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  "Shelly's grandma teaches her about ghosts, how to carry them in your hair. If you carry your ghosts in your hair, you can cut them off when you don't need them anymore. Otherwise, ghosts cling to your skin, dig their fingers in under your…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City of Ghosts

  Schwab, Victoria

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  People think that ghosts only come out at night, or on Halloween, when the world is dark and the walls are thin. But the truth is, ghosts are everywhere. In the bread aisle at your grocery store, in the front seat on your bus. Just because…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Phantom Hour

  Shepherd, Kat

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  "The old dog lay on his back, his long legs poking limply in the air. He snored, wheezing, and his paws twitched gently in the moonlight that spilled across the empty room."

• Tales From the Haunted Mansion, Volume 4

  Memento Mori.

  Arcane, Amicus (Fictitious character)

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  "Who would pave such a path? What pestilent purpose could it serve? It is said that all roads lead somewhere. Route 13, with its curving, twisting, winding lane perpetually blanketed by a debilitating fog, can only lead to madness. Or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Creeping Shadow

  Stroud, Jonathan

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  "I knew at once, when I slipped into the moonlit office and eased the door shut behind me, that I was in the presence of the dead. I could feel it in the prickling of my scalp, in the way the hairs stirred on my arms, in the coldness of…Read moreRead more of this annotation