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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. |