Ghost House Mystery

When Louella Ward unexpectedly inherits her late grandfather’s assets, she and her brother become the new owners of a crumbling plantation home and the land around it. Soon after receiving the keys, Lou begins to wonder about Bluefield’s hidden secrets. Strange figures lurk in the shadows, and Lou experiences a resurgence in her childhood nightmares. While her brother works to sell the house, Lou unravels the surrounding mystery. At Bluefield, the dead walk, but is Lou the only one who can see them?

We Need Diverse Books cofounder Ellen Oh delivers the final book in her middle grade series Spirit Hunters, a gripping mystery and thrilling adventure, starring a Korean-American heroine and a diverse cast of characters. Harper is dealing with too many new changes in her house. Her cousin, Leo, is now living with them; her sister, Kelly, has started working at a local makeup store, Jeune; and Harper's spirit hunter abilities have grown increasingly more powerful and uncontrollable, making her a target for possession.

Whilst writer Charles Dickens needs no introduction, his Haunted House anthology might, not least because in his role as editor he introduces a formidable array of known and lesser-known literary talents.

In 1916, the Great War is underway, and Henry has been called up, leaving his wife and three children in their North Yorkshire farmhouse. They keep in touch via letters, but when he returns to Abberton House, his whole family has disappeared. There are whispers of an affair, but Henry refuses to believe it—and spends the rest of his life searching... That long-ago mystery is still talked about in the village a hundred years later when Adam and Catherine move into the house with their five-year-old daughter. As they settle in, strange things begin to happen.

When the Trotter family moves to a haunted home in rural Iowa, they immediately wish they knew more about its previous residents. After a fatal tragedy decades before, locals are reluctant to discuss what happened in the house. Thomas Trotter is the first to recognize supernatural forces are at work in the home. Unable to convince his parents of the danger, he must work with his new schoolmates to unravel the mystery of what happened to Cynthia Fischer, the woman who used to sleep in his bedroom - and who may have died there.

Demler Mansion has seen its share of darkness. In 1995, serial killer Edmund Demler set a fire there, ending his own life. A quarter-century later, urban explorers break into the old ruin. They find a once-grand house now falling into decay - blackened walls, broken furniture, echoes that sound like voices. Then something far more terrifying finds them. After this latest tragedy, medium Penny Wright arrives to investigate. From her first moments inside the house, Penny suspects that the spirit of Edmund Demler has never left.

Husband and wife team Lindsy and Michael Foster are a pair of paranormal investigators traveling the country. Their latest case brings them to the small coastal town of Bluthe, Maine, where a young man's death at the legendary Bowlby Estate prompts a closer look at the legend of treasure the beautiful heiress hid somewhere on the grounds of the estate. It's here Lindsy and Mike discover that the price of Madeline Bowlby's fortune could be their lives.

Three murders. One night. No convictions. Nicole Harper, a hospice nurse with a floundering marriage, is assigned a new patient in the remote Northwestern wilderness. But when Nic meets her new patient, she discovers the old woman's family history is as troubling as her medical condition.

It's been three years since a local college girl went missing, leaving a trail of theories about what really happened at the Morgan Estate.

When Jeanne spent her summer holidays there as a child with her school friend, Parson’s House on the cliff top had been a seaside haven, and the small Devon village a sleepy, tranquil place where nothing much ever happened. Now, years later, returning there from Canada, divorced and with twin four-year-old daughters, she could hardly expect the place or the people to be the same. But she was quite unprepared for the bustle of the modern town which greeted her, for the shadowy rumors and mystery surrounding the old house....

Hoping for a fresh start and undeterred by their dwindling bank account, Jeffery and Sarah Simpson pour the remaining of their savings into a foreclosed bed-and-breakfast in the idyllic, snowy mountain town of Roslyn. But as renovations begin, the married couple discovers more than just a few leaky pipes. The home's reputation stained by a horrific murder from years prior, the Simpsons uncover secrets certain townsfolk have worked tirelessly to keep hidden.

All over the world, people complain about things that go bump in the night. Spooky hauntings, ghost sightings, eerie feelings, demons, and the supernatural. You name it, this book covers it with unnerving accuracy.

The house is historic, some say haunted. It is also slated to be razed and replaced by condos, unless Hannah Smith can do something about it. She's been hired by a wealthy Palm Beach widow to prove that the house's seller didn't disclose everything he knew about the place when he unloaded it, including its role in a bloody Civil War skirmish (in which two of Hannah's own distant relations had had a part), and the suicides - or were they murders? - of two previous owners.

When thirteen-year-old Celeste travels to China to visit her grandmother, she uncovers an incredible family secret. And with this secret comes danger and adventure. If Celeste is to save her family and friends, she must learn to harness her rare and powerful gift.

Nicole Harper, a hospice nurse with a floundering marriage, is assigned a new patient in the remote Northwestern wilderness. But when Nic meets her new patient, she discovers the old woman’s family history is as troubling as her medical condition.

Rebecca Bray has moved on from a childhood she wants to forget. She has the dream fiancé, a loving stepdaughter and a career she's proud of. But with a move back to her hometown of Cornwall, everything she wanted to bury starts to surface. And when her stepdaughter goes missing at a New Year's Eve party, Rebecca must finally face the ghosts of her past - or Ava might never come home safely.

Set high on top of Widows Hill, Harrow House has remained empty for years. Now, on behalf of a prospective buyer, Ishmael and Penny are spending a night there in order to investigate the rumors of strange lights, mysterious voices, and unexplained disappearances, and establish whether the house is really haunted. What really happened at Harrow House all those years ago? Joined by a celebrity psychic, a professional ghost hunter, a local historian, and a newspaper reporter, it becomes clear each member of "Team Ghost" has their own pet theory as to the cause of the alleged haunting.

When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, they aren't exactly running away, but they need a change. Hannah takes a job as live-in director of the Wright Historic House, a museum dedicated to an obscure 19th-century philosopher, and she and Nick swiftly move into their new home. At first, life in this old, creaky house feels cozy. But as summer turns to fall, Hannah begins to have trouble sleeping and she hears whispers in the night. One morning, Nick wakes up to find Hannah gone.

When you look in the mirror, who do you see? With Mandy the haunted doll now safely ensconced in Mason Town Museum, sealed in a glass case, Shady Groves and her colleagues, Annie and Ray, can relax. After a fashion. The small-town museum they run is not like others, it’s a place that seeks to contain and understand artifacts and relics charged with negative energy. Their aim is to gradually reduce how potent that energy can be, and the destruction it can lead to. All is well, until Shady chances upon a mirror in a thrift store. The reflection staring back at her is not quite her own.

Davin Cooper is a well-known photographer in Miami, and when the opportunity presents itself to move away from his loving but pestering family to a Victorian home in Baton Rouge to have a regular job, he takes it. Even when rumors fly about the house being haunted and he starts to feel strange vibes himself, he insists it can't be real, until a dead girl shows up in his bed. Davin is forced to call a paranormal investigator who comes in like a tornado and changes his heart and his beliefs, forever.