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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Death in the Castle	Pearl S. Buck	Sir Richard Sedgeley and Lady Mary are broke and without an heir to the castle that’s been in their family for centuries. Tourists are infrequent, and the offers they’ve received are not ones they ca…	OL1140272W
Deadly harvest	Heather Graham,Phil Gigante	When a young woman is found dead in a field, dressed up as a scarecrow with a slashed grin and a broken neck, the residents of Salem, Massachusetts, begin to fear that the infamous Harvest Man is mor…	OL121735W
Peony in Love	Lisa See	"I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret."For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion m…	OL14927221W
I'll never get out of this world alive	Steve Earle	It's 1963 and in a rented room, in the red-light district of San Antonio, Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams. Doc, rumoured to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him,…	OL15976756W
The inhabited world	Long, David	Stuck in a state of purgatory in the Washington State house in which he lived and died, Evan Molloy, who had shot himself to death for a reason he cannot recall, now must deal with the home's new inh…	OL16064200W
The haunting of Maddy Clare	Simone St. James	"In 1920s England, a young woman of limited means and even less experience confronts the ghost of a mysterious serving maid.... Sarah Piper's lonely threadbare existence changes when her temporary ag…	OL16134699W
The Big Book of Ghost Stories	Otto Penzler	A collection of ghost stories by American and English authors. These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day creations by Joyce Carol Oates and Chet Williamson, to pul…	OL16654658W
Bellman & Black	Diane Setterfield	Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels…	OL17651252W
The damned	Andrew Pyper	"Danny Orchard died on his 16th birthday-and so did his twin sister, Ashleigh-but only Danny came back. He wrote a bestselling memoir about his experience of heaven called The After, but despite his …	OL17750579W
Slade House	David Mitchell	"Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors s…	OL17801648W
The drowning pool	Syd Moore	"Relocated to a coastal town, widowed teacher Sarah Grey is slowly rebuilding her life, along with her young son Alfie. But after an inadvertent séance one drunken night, her world is shaken when she…	OL17869932W
Five Victorian ghost novels	Everett F. Bleiler	xiv, 421 p. 22 cm	OL1855167W
The ghost that barked	Michael Dahl	The Scooter Spies Max, Oscar, Lily, and Lily's pet chameleon, Speck, are practicing their moves at a construction site when they uncover a mysterious old steamer trunk and hear a wild howl in the nig…	OL1878506W
The uncanny	Andrew Klavan	A successful Hollywood screenwriter who bases his movies on classic English ghost stories finds himself in the midst of one when he travels to England and meets a mysterious damsel in distress and a …	OL19870281W
The Grownup	Gillian Flynn	A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A ke…	OL20016157W
Lost among the living	Simone St. James	"England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie F…	OL20027513W
Against a brightening sky	Jaime Lee Moyer	By 1919 the Great War has ended, peace talks are under way in Paris, and the world has been forever changed. Delia Martin, apprentice practitioner of magical arts, and her husband, Police Captain Gab…	OL20029619W
Lions	Bonnie Nadzam	The presence of a stranger in a nearly abandoned Colorado town changes the fates of everyone he encounters, including the Walker family, who have lived in the town for generations.	OL20033725W
The small hand	Susan Hill	Returning home from a client visit late one evening, Adam Snow takes a wrong turn and stumbles across the derelict old White House. Compelled by curiousity he decides to enter, only to be repelled wh…	OL22421894W
Ghost music	Graham Masterton	The dead can't punish those who killed them, but they can enlist the aid of the living to seek revenge ...	OL24203208W