Elizabeth Levy

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

Is the strange Mr. Frank really Frankenstein? A sequel is: Dracula Is a Pain in the Neck (1983).

Frankenstein Moved in on the Fourth Floor

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#hardcover #thriller #fiction #protectivecover #formerlibrarybook #psychologicalthriller #thriller #creepynovel #creepy #gripping 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A real estate agent who keeps the keys to people's homes in order to spy on them finds his normal routine of prying into strangers' private things interrupted when a dead body is discovered in a neighbor's garden.

A Pleasure and a Calling

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Betty Ren Wright

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A neighborhood with a dark secret greets a family with a tragic past in this critically acclaimed ghost story -- now in paperback!

Since their mother died, fifteen-year-old Jenny Joslin and her little sister, Allie, have moved seven times with their father, who is trying to put the past behind them. Jenny finally feels at home when she sees their new house in the woods . . . until a restless young man appears on the back porch.
Handsome, silent, mysterious - he can only be seen in the dark. He doesn't respond to Jenny's voice. And he will not leave until he gets what he came for.
Now it's up to Jenny to figure out who he is - and why he is haunting the residents of Crescent Lane. They all seem so innocent. But are they?

The Moonlight Man

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#paperback #juvenilefiction #creepy #mystery #adventure #middlegrades 

David Almond's Printz Honor-winning novel celebrates its 10th anniversary!

Ten-year-old Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. . . . What is this thing beneath the spiders' webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never before seen? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend, Mina. Together, they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever. . . .

Skellig

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#hardcover #animals #nonfiction #creepy #childrens #science #edicational. 

Minnesota

Creepy Crawlies

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Strangely Enough 

Bruce Coville

Book of Monsters: Tales to Give You the Creeps

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This book is in very good condition but does show some minor wear from reading 

Wisconsin

When his passionate romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, young psychologist Jeremy Carrier is left emotionally devastated, haunted by his lover’s grisly demise–and eyed warily by police still seeking a prime suspect in the slaying. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work at City Central Hospital–only to be drawn deeper into a walking nightmare when more women are murdered in the same gruesome fashion as Jocelyn. As the suspicion surrounding Jeremy intensifies, the only way for him to prove his innocence and put his torment to rest is to follow the deadly trail of a modern-day Jack the Ripper.

The Conspiracy Club

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#paperback #ghoststories #hauntedhouse #haunted #halloween #creepy #nonfiction

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Missouri

Ghostly Locales from Around the World

How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural spheres that were mutually dependent yet distinct. This volume, emerging from a conference hosted in memory of Professor Andrew Sherratt in Sheffield in April 2008 and in honour of his contributions to large-scale economic history, presents some diverse archaeological responses to this problem. These range from from "world-systems" through "ritual economies" to "textile rivalries" and address the challenge of documenting, explaining and understanding the progressively more interwoven worlds of prehistoric Eurasia.

Encyclopedia of Haunted Places

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Adam-Troy Castro

Ohio

Fernie What, an adventurous young horror fan, moves into the house across the street from the dark mansion of a mysterious boy whose residence is haunted by evil shadows.

Gustav Gloom and the People Taker #1

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Diana Abu-Jaber

Book was never read. Pages are yellowing around the edges. Large paperback edition.

New York

A Novel

"Finally, a novel of literary suspense that gets almost everything right--forensically and psychologically."
--Sarah Weinman, Baltimore Sun

In this "mystery of cold beauty and dark isolation, written with crystalline precision" (Miami Herald), a series of crib deaths in Syracuse, New York, draws the attention of police and national media. Is a serial infant murderer at large?

A "haunting story, icy cold in its upstate New York setting but glowing with the unusual brightness of its heroine" (Eugene Weekly), Origin stars a solitary fingerprint examiner who finds herself playing a critical role in the case. Diana Abu-Jaber, a "gifted and graceful writer" (Chicago Tribune), masterfully "transcends formula" (Kirkus Reviews) as "the tension of Origin escalates, shaped as much by beautifully nuanced prose as menacing events" (New York Daily News).

Origin 

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Sarah Glenn Marsh

Indiana

Seventeen-year-old Dare plans to spend her summer debunking a haunting at an historic estate with a dark past, but she finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against a malignant ghost.

The Girls Are Never Gone

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A real bone-chilling mystery (pun intended) that is rated an impressive 4 out of 5 on Goodreads

Maryland

An archaeologist stumbles upon a centuries-old crime--and the trail of a modern-day murderer--in this "finely observed, beautifully written" mystery for fans of Elly Griffiths (Daily Mail)

Archaeologist Sage Westfield has been called in to excavate a sixteenth-century well, and expects to find little more than soil and the odd piece of pottery. But the disturbing discovery of the bones of a woman and newborn baby make it clear that she has stumbled onto an historical crime scene--one that is interwoven with an unsettling local legend of witchcraft and unrequited love.
 
Yet there is more to the case than a four-hundred-year-old mystery. The owners of a nearby cottage are convinced that it is haunted, and the local vicar is being plagued with abusive phone calls. Then a tragic death makes it all too clear that a modern murderer is at work . . .

A Baby's Bones

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Nightmare 

Romy Hausmann

Texas

Dark secrets past and present collide in Sleepless, a haunting novel of guilt and retribution from Romy Hausmann, the international bestselling author of Dear Child.

It's been years since Nadja Kulka was convicted of a cruel crime. After being released from prison, she's wanted nothing more than to live a normal life: nice flat, steady job, even a few friends. But when one of those friends, Laura von Hoven--free-spirited beauty and wife of Nadja's boss--kills her lover and begs Nadja for her help, Nadja can't seem to refuse.

The two women make for a remote house in the woods, the perfect place to bury a body. But their plan quickly falls apart and Nadja finds herself outplayed, a pawn in a bizarre game in which she is both the perfect victim and the perfect murderer...

Sleepless

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Nighttime: Too Dark to See & Too Scared to Sleep flip over book 

Louisiana

Stage Fright

Still More Scary Stories For Sleepovers

Matt Goldman

Mississippi

Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories both golden and terrible, and secrets too dangerous to stay hidden forever, from New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award-winning author, Matt Goldman.

Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina, with its palmettos and shrimp boats, to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia, while his overstressed mother takes a break. Marshall Green's short-term memory has all but evaporated, but, as if in compensation, his oldest memories are more vivid than ever. His mind keeps slipping backwards in time, retreating into long-ago yesterdays of growing up in Beaufort as a boy.

At first this seems like a blessing of sorts, with the past providing a refuge from a shrinking future, but Joey grows increasingly anxious as his father's hallucinatory arguments with figures from his youth begin to hint at deadly secrets, scandals, and suspicions long buried and forgotten. Resurfacing from decades past are mysteries that still have the power to shatter lives--and change everything Joey thought he knew.

Especially when a new murder brings the police to his door...

Carolina Moonset

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Jason Segel

Kirsten Miller

Pennsylvania

"Coraline meets Monsters, Inc. in this delightfully entertaining offering from actor [Jason] Segel and co-author [Kirsten] Miller."--Publishers Weekly

The hilariously frightening, middle-grade novel Nightmares! is a Texas Bluebonnet nominee and the first book in a trilogy about a boy named Charlie and a group of kids who must face their fears to save their town.

Charlie Laird has several problems.
 
1. His dad married a woman he is sure moonlights as a witch.
2. He had to move into her purple mansion--the creepiest place in Cypress Creek.
3. He can't remember the last time sleeping wasn't a nightmarish prospect. Like even a nap.
 
What Charlie doesn't know is that his problems are about to get a whole lot more real. Nightmares can ruin a good night's sleep, but when they start slipping out of your dreams and into the waking world . . . well, that's something only Charlie can face. And he's going to need all the help he can get, or it might just be lights-out for Charlie Laird.
 
For good.

Praise for the Nightmares! Series:

Nightmares! (Bk 1) is a Texas Bluebonnet Nominee

"Charlie Laird, who learns fear will eat you alive if you feed it, makes an impression, and...readers will want to accompany him again."--The New York Times Book Review

"A touching comical saga...about facing things that go bump in the night."--US Weekly

"Comical antics, cartoonish spot illustrations, and creepy villains make for quite an entertaining read."--Booklist

"Succeeds at scaring and amusing in equal measure . . . Sweet, charming, and imaginative."--Kirkus Reviews

"An engaging and creative story...woven with a generous amount [of] humor."--VOYA

"There's humor and a fairly high ick-factor."--School Library Journal

"Cleverly crafted...This novel presents just the right mix of 'scary and humorous.'"--ILA Literacy Daily

Nightmares!

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No tears stains folds or crease
Smoke free home

Virginia

Ransom Riggs

Brand new, never-read copy with some very light edge wear (pictured). 

Vermont

The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.

Hollow City

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Lisa Unger

Michigan

Includes a reading group guide and an interview with the author.

In the Blood

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On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and prepare to break into the Paragon Hotel. The once-magnificent structure is now boarded up and marked for demolition.They are ?creepers”: urban explorers with a passion for investigating abandoned buildings and their dying secrets. Reporter Frank Balenger joins them to profile this highly illegal activity for the New York Times. But he isn't looking for just another story, and soon after they enter the rat-infested tunnel leading to the hotel, he gets more than he bargained for. Danger, fear, and death await the creepers in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil.

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