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The lighthouse witches / by Jess-Cooke, Carolyn,1978-author.;
"Upon the cliffs of a remote Scottish island, Lòn Haven, stands a lighthouse. A lighthouse that has weathered more than storms. Mysterious and terrible events have happened on this island. It started with a witch hunt. Now, centuries later, islanders are vanishing without explanation. Coincidence? Or curse? Liv Stay flees to the island with her three daughters, in search of a home. She doesn't believe in witches, or dark omens, or hauntings. But within months, her daughter Luna will be the only one of them left. Twenty years later, Luna is drawn back to the place her family vanished. As the last sister left, it's up to her to find out the truth ... But what really happened at the lighthouse all those years ago?"--
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Gothic fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Islands; Lighthouses; Missing persons; Supernatural;

The sentence [sound recording] : a novel / by Erdrich, Louise,author,narrator.; Blackstone Audio, Inc.,publisher.; Harper Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author.A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Ghost stories.; Paranormal fiction.; Psychological fiction.; All Souls' Day; Bookstores; Ex-convicts; Haunted places;

A guest in the house [graphic novel] / by Carroll, Emily,author,illustrator.;
"After many lonely years, Abby's just gotten married. She met her new husband--a recently widowed dentist--when he arrived in town with his young daughter, seeking a new start. Although it's strange living in the shadow of her predecessor, Abby does her best to be a good wife and mother. But the more she learns about her new husband's first wife, the more things don't add up. And Abby starts to wonder ... was Sheila's death really by natural causes? As Abby sinks deeper into confusion, Sheila's memory seemsto become a force all its own, ensnaring Abby in a mystery that leaves her obsessed, fascinated, and desperately in love for the first time in her life"--
Subjects: Horror comics.; Ghost stories.; Graphic novels.; Remarried people; Wives;

The ghost of the Bermuda Triangle / by Sutton, Laurie.; Neely, Scott.;
Scooby Doo and the gang are on the Magical Mystery Cruise, through the Bermuda Triangle, and the reader chooses which mystery to pursue--dangerous criminals, confused passengers, or a real ghost.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Plot-your-own stories.; Radio and television novels.; Scooby-Doo (Fictitious character); Great Dane; Cruise ships;

Franklin's Halloween / by Bourgeois, Paulette.; Clark, Brenda.;
Franklin and his friends are excited about the Halloween party. But things get scary when Franklin begins to think that there might be a real ghost at the party.
Subjects: Picture books.; Franklin (Fictitious character : Bourgeois); Turtles; Halloween; Ghosts;

A good house for children : a novel / by Collins, Kate,author.;
The Reeve stands on the edge of the Dorset cliffs, awaiting its next inhabitants. Despite Orla's misgivings, her husband insists this house will be the perfect place to raise their two children. In 1976, Lydia moves to Dorset as a nanny for a family grieving their patriarch. She soon starts to hear and feel things that cannot be real, but her bereaved employer does not listen when Lydia tells her something is wrong. Separated by forty years, both Lydia and Orla realise that the longer they stay at the Reeve, the more deadly certain their need to keep the children safe from whatever lurks inside it.
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Family secrets; Haunted houses; Mother and child;

The graveyard book / by Gaiman, Neil.; McKean, Dave.;
This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.80 84
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Paranormal fiction.; Banned book sanctuary.; Dead; Cemeteries; Orphans;
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Motherthing / by Hogarth, Ainslie,author.;
"A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will start a family and put all the darkness in her childhood to rest. But then the Lambs move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, whose depression has made it impossible for her to live on her own. She's venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, who has a complicated understanding of motherhood given the way her own, now-estranged, mother raised her. When Laura takes her own life, her ghost starts to haunt Abby and Ralph in very different ways. Ralph is plunged into depression, and Abby is being terrorized by a force intent on taking everything she loves away from her. With everything on the line, Abby must make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prove her adoration to Ralph and break Laura's hold on the family for good"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Ghost stories.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Ghosts; Married people; Mothers;

The only good Indians : a novel / by Jones, Stephen Graham,1972-author.;
"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends"--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Revenge;

Rose of Jericho / by Grecian, Alex,author.;
Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all. The dead are not dying. When Rabbit and Sadie Grace accompany their friend Rose to Ascension to help take care of her ailing cousin, they immediately notice that their new house, Bethany Hall, is occupied by dozens of ghosts. And something is waiting for them in the attic. The villagers of Ascension are unwelcoming and wary of their weird visitors. As the three women attempt to find out what's happening in the town, they must be careful not to be found out. But a much larger--and more dangerous--force is galloping straight for them.
Subjects: Ghost stories.; Witch fiction.; Horror fiction.; Novels.; Death (Personification); Ghosts; Gunfighters; Veterans; Villages; Voyages and travels; Witchcraft; Witches;

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