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Deep and Dark and Dangerous
A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Just before summer begins, thirteen-year-old Ali finds an old photograph. She recognizes the two children. One's her mother, the other her aunt Dulcie…but who is the third person, the one who's been torn out of the picture? When she asked her mother, she doesn't answer. Ali is curious. She will have all summer to figure it out, since she's spending the summer with her aunt and her cousin in the same house her mom... (more)
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Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring. In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall. At least, that's what it seems to be. Until one day, when Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's... (more)
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Skeleton Creek: Book 2
Ghost in the Machine
by Patrick Carman
The chilling conclusion in the innovative series from bestselling author Patrick Carman. Strange things are happening in Skeleton Creek...and Ryan and Sarah are trying to find out why. Ryan writes down everything in his journal, and Sarah records everything on her videocam. The two move deeper into the mystery they've uncovered, determined to discover the secrets buried in Skeleton Creek, in the conclusion to... (more)
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Skeleton Creek: Book 1
Skeleton Creek
by Patrick Carman
Strange things are happening in Skeleton Creek . . . and Ryan and Sarah are trying to get to the heart of it. But after an eerie accident leaves Ryan housebound and forbidden to see Sarah, their investigation takes two tracks: Ryan records everything in his journal, while Sarah uses her videocam to search things out. . .and then email the clips for Ryan to see. In a new, groundbreaking format, the story is... (more)
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Wait Till Helen Comes
A Ghost Story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Beware of Helen... Heather is such a whiny little brat. Always getting Michael and me into trouble. But since our mother married her father, we're stuck with her...our "poor stepsister" who lost her real mother in a mysterious fire. But now something terrible has happened. Heather has found a new friend, out in the graveyard behind our home -- a girl named Helen who died with her family in a mysterious fire over... (more)
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Skeleton Creek: Book 3
The Crossbones
by Patrick Carman
this is a stupid book and you don want to read it. just kidding it is the best book ever
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It
by Stephen King
They were just kids when they stumbled upon the hidden horror of their hometown. Now, as adults, none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them all back to Derry, Maine, to face the nightmare without end, and the evil without a name.
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Goosebumps: Book 7
Night of the Living Dummy
by R. L. Stine
When twins Lindy and Kris find a ventriloquist's dummy in a Dumpster, Lindy decides to "rescue" it, and she names it Slappy. But Kris is green with envy. It's not fair. Why does Lindy get to have all the fun and all the attention? Kris decides to get a dummy of her own. She'll show Lindy. Then weird things begin to happen. Nasty things. Evil things. It can't be the dummy causing all the trouble, Can it?
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Goosebumps: Book 56
The Curse of Camp Cold Lake
by R. L. Stine
Camp is supposed to be fun, but Sarah hates Camp Cold Lake. The lake is gross and slimy. And she's having a little trouble with her bunkmates. They hate her. So Sarah comes up with a plan. She'll pretend to drown - then everyone will feel sorry for her. But things don't go exactly the way Sarah planned. Because down by the cold, dark lake someone is watching her. Stalking her. Someone with pale blue eyes. And a... (more)
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Goosebumps: Book 1
Welcome to Dead House
by R. L. Stine
Amanda and Josh think the old house they have just moved into is weird. Spooky. Possibly haunted. And the town of Dark Falls is pretty strange, too. But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. So Amanda and Josh do. But these creepy new friends are not exactly what their parents had in mind. Because they want to be friends... ...forever.
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All the Lovely Bad Ones
by Mary Downing Hahn
Corey and Travis decide to go to Fox Hill Inn instead of summer camp. There has been a history of ghosts in The Inn, but their Grandma doesn't believe in them. Corey and Travis try to scare the guests of the Inn for fun by acting like the ghosts and making wierd noises. But that was a bad idea. They wake the real ghosts up. And they aren't happy. All The Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn is a heart racing eye... (more)
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Pet Sematary
by Stephen King
1st Edition - 1st Printing with all the right markers. Fifteen dollar & ninety five cents inside cover, 1183 inside back cover, Tabitha King mentioned on back cover, embossed stephen king signature front hard cover under dust jacket.
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Skeleton Man
by Joseph Bruchac
Ever since the morning Molly woke up to find that her parents had vanished, her life has become filled with terrible questions. Where have her parents gone? Who is this spooky old man who's taken her to live with him, claiming to be her great-uncle? Why does he never eat, and why does he lock her in her room at night? What are her dreams of the Skeleton Man trying to tell her? There's one thing Molly does know.... (more)
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Goosebumps: Book 11
The Haunted Mask
by R. L. Stine
A young girl purchases the most frighteningly life-like Halloween mask and then, to her horror, discovers that she is unable to remove it from her face. She could remove it with "A symbol of love" as the store's owner said, but what does that mean? A symbol of love?
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Scary Stories: Book 3
Scary Stories 3
More Tales to Chill Your Bones
by Alvin Schwartz, Stephen Gammell
Storytellers know -- just as they have for hundreds and hundreds of years -- that everyone enjoys a good, scary story! Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give readers spooky, funny and fantastic tales guaranteed to raise goose bumps. Who is the Wolf girl? Why is a hearse... (more)
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The Doll in the Garden
by Mary Downing Hahn
When Ashley discovers a turn-of-the-century doll it is just the first of several puzzling events that lead her through the hedge and into a twilight past where she meets Louise, an ailing child whose beloved doll has mysteriously disappeared.
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The Shining
by Stephen King
Terrible events occur at an isolated hotel in the off season, when a small boy with psychic powers struggles to hold his own against the forces of evil that are driving his father insane. Reissue.
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Goosebumps HorrorLand: Book 1
Revenge of the Living Dummy
by R. L. Stine
Fright-master R.L. Stine invites you on an all-new, all-terrifying adventure! The thrill ride begins when 12-year-old Britney Crosby encounters an old ventriloquist's dummy with a lively secret--and a wicked plan. Just when she thinks the nightmare is over, Britney receives an invitation to an amusement park where everything is not as it seems. Who--or what--is summoning ordinary kids to HorrorLand?... (more)
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Goosebumps: Book 9
Welcome to Camp Nightmare
by R. L. Stine
Next Summer you'll stay at home.if you survive! The food isn't great. The counselors are a little strange. And the camp director, Uncle Al, seems sort of demented. Okay, so Billycan handle all that. But then his fellow campers start to disappear. What's going on? Why won't his parents answer his letters? What's lurking out there after dark? Camp Nightmoon is turning intoCamp Nightmare! And Billy might be next!!
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Dreamhouse Kings: Book 1
House of Dark Shadows
by Robert Liparulo
Dream house . . . or bad dream? When the Kings move from L.A. to a secluded small town, fifteen-year-old Xander is beyond disappointed. He and his friends loved to create amateur films . . . but the tiny town of Pinedale is the last place a movie buff and future filmmaker wants to land. But he, David, and Toria are captivated by the many rooms in the old Victorian fixer-upper they moved into--as well as the... (more)

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