Washoe County Library System

A collection of ten scary stories about haunted houses, pirate treasure, and ghosts.

A small green-skinned girl in a haunted house looks for ghosts under the bed, in the library, in the bathroom, and in the cupboards.

"Create a spooky memory for visitors coming to party or trick-or-treat with more than 20 DIY projects for haunting your house. With a bit of theatrics and light, you can create your own flying phantasms, giant jointed-leg spider, coffin, and other spooky displays. Now you can create an extreme cinematic experience with touch, sound, smells, and spooktacular sights that bring on the chills and screams at every turn. This second volume includes new...

While all of the adults are away on a trip, Araminta's cousin Mathilda comes to babysit, reluctantly bringing with her two teenaged poltergeists who proceed to wreak havoc in Spookie House.

"Remy is a tour guide for Carrow House, a notoriously haunted building. When she's asked to host guests for a week-long stay, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous. At first, it's everything they hoped for. Thena storm moves in, cutting off their contact with the outside world, and things quickly become twisted. But it isn't until one of the guests dies under strange circumstances that Remy is forced to consider...

A grieving young widow, Charlene needed a new start--so she bought a historic mansion, sight unseen, and drove from Chicago to New England to start turning it into a bed-and-breakfast. On her first night in the house, she awakens to find a handsome man with startling blue eyes in her bedroom. Terror turns to utter disbelief when he politely introduces himself as Jack Strathmore--and explains that he used to live here--when he was alive. He firmly...

Eccentric firearm heiress believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.

In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I.B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.

Angel Sullivan and Seth Baker, teen misfits in the quaint town of Roundtree, Massachusetts, are led by a sinister force to a small cabin where they find a book of spells that gives them the power to get more than even with their tormentors.