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Book	Author	Dewey Number	Description
The Witch of Painted Sorrows	Rose, M.J.	FIC ROS	Set in Belle Epoque Paris, a young artist is increasingly possessed by La Lune, a witch and artist from the 16th century in tale of passion and a family’s curse.
The Lovely Bones	Sebold, Alice	FIC SEB	Gripping tale told by a dead narrator from her vantage point in heaven.
Dark Witch	Roberts, Nora	FIC ROB	An American searches for her Irish ancestors to learn more about her powers and break an ancient curse.
The Thirteenth Tale	Setterfield, Diane	FIC SET	A tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire.
Ghostwalk	Stott, Rebecca	FIC STO	Cambridge historian Elizabeth Vogelsang is found dead and her son Cameron asks his former lover, Lydia Brooke, to ghostwrite the final chapters of his late mother's book, but in the process, they uncover disturbing secrets that may have cost Elizabeth her life.
The Golem and the Jinni	Wecker, Helene	FIC WEC	Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire, form an unlikely friendship on the streets of New York until a fateful choice changes everything.
The Little Stranger	Waters, Sarah	FIC WAT	One dusty postwar summer in England, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall, the residence of the Ayres family for more than two centuries. Its owners are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as conflicts of their own. But they are haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life.
The Historian	Kostova, Elizabeth	FIC KOS	Girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.
Her Fearful Symmetry	Niffenegger, Audrey	FIC NIF	When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. The twins move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the sisters apart.
Mariana	Kearsley, Susanna	FIC KEA	When Julia Beckett moves into a beautiful old farmhouse, she finds herself transported into17th-century England, and into the world of Mariana. Each time Julia travels back, she becomes more enthralled with the past... until she realizes Mariana's life is eclipsing her own.
Doctor Sleep	King, Stephen	FIC KIN	The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
The Shining	King, Stephen	FIC KIN	What of the penetrating cold terror of an old hotel, a haunted place of seductive evil with a malevolent will of its own--and a five-year-old boy whose mind mirrors the nightmarish secrets of its past?
Neverwhere	Gaiman, Neil	FIC GAI	Richard Mayhew’s small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed, and he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to London.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane	Gaiman, Neil	FIC GAI	It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive.
Practical Magic	Hoffman, Alice	FIC HOF	Orphaned at an early age, Gillian and Sally Owen are raised by an aunt who deals in sorcery.
The Keep	Egan, Jennifer	FIC TAN	Egan’s relentlessly gripping page-turner plays with rich forms—ghost story, love story, gothic tale.
The Last Werewolf	Duncan, Glen	FIC DUN	For two hundred years Jacob has wandered the world, enslaved by his lunatic appetites and tormented by the memory of his first and most monstrous crime. Now a murder and an extraordinary meeting plunge him straight back into the desperate pursuit of life -- and love.
Guardian Angels	Citro, Joseph A.	FIC CIT	A family believes they have found the perfect house, but things are the horrors of the past begin to affect them.
Lake Monsters	Citro, Joseph A.	FIC CIT	A harmless monster hunt discloses something dark and disturbing beating in the heart of a tiny Vermont town.
The Brief History of the Dead	Brockmeier, Kevin	FIC BRO	The recently departed live in a City, but only as long as they are remembered. On Earth a researcher is trapped on an Antarctic research station.
Laced with Magic	Bretton, Barbara	FIC BRE	A Vermont town is filled with magic and magical creatures.
Drowned	Bohman, Therese	FIC BOH	In the Swedish countryside during the summer, a woman becomes enamored with her older sister's husband, a charming-yet-violent writer.
The Night Strangers	Bohjalian, Chris	FIC BOH	A riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts.
The Lace Reader	Barry, Brunonia	FIC BAR	A young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers has returned to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts. Her aunt drowns under mysterious circumstances.
Haunted Houses	Thay, Edrick	398.25 THA	Author explores the spirits in the most haunted of properties.
The Witch of Painted Sorrows	Rose, M.J.	FIC ROS	Set in Belle Epoque Paris, a young artist is increasingly possessed by La Lune, a witch and artist from the 16th century in tale of passion and a family’s curse.
The Lovely Bones	Sebold, Alice	FIC SEB	Gripping tale told by a dead narrator from her vantage point in heaven.
Dark Witch	Roberts, Nora	FIC ROB	An American searches for her Irish ancestors to learn more about her powers and break an ancient curse.