Ghost Humor

Stare if you dare, into Paul Jennings' wild world. What happens when you grow younger?

Ophelia thought she would have to stay in feline form forever, or at least until Mrs. Johnson died. Thanks to Thelma, Ophelia, and Thelma are able to find their way back to Enchanted after a lot of fun twists and turns and a ride in a suitcase. Ophelia soon learns that everyone in Enchanted has lessons to learn and fate to fulfill. Listen to how the family is reunited and just how Luna got that bubble butt.

El rancio abolengo de la tradición aristocrática británica, se enfrenta a su peor enemigo: una familia americana.....El gran fantasma de Canterville que había llevado durante más de 500 años una vida tranquila, aunque triste, se va a ver de repente enfrentado a la peor de las pesadillas que se podia imaginar: los Otis.El respeto al terror tradicional, provocado por los fantasmas medievales, el pánico generado por esos espíritus ancestrales.

The strangest episode of Johnny’s adventures so far sees him not only confronted by the ghost of Margaret Thatcher, but also by the mystery surrounding the death of one of his acquaintances.

El misterio que rodea el pasado de su esposa, y que él se comprometió a respetar, entorpece la aclaración del nerviosismo y la inquietud de la señora Cubitt. Holmes tranquiliza a Hilton Cubitt y le promete su ayuda una vez termine un caso delicado que está resolviendo.

Què faríeu si us adonéssiu que l'amor de la vostra vida no és de carn i ossos? En Michael MacNamara no sap on s'ha ficat, sort que està envoltat de bruixes que l'ajudaran a caminar per aquest terreny perillosíssim. Ah, i si mai us passa el mateix que a en Michael, sobretot: no feu petons als fantasmes!

A beautiful television personality comes home to mourn her mother, as well as the life she lost when her husband became ill and the pandemic shut down her show. When her husband dies suddenly, was she simply expressing her grief with murder? Was he the intended victim, or did she narrowly escape the well-deserved wrath of her neighbors?

Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. The Green Man opens as Maurice’s father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral.

David Foster Wallace has been dead since his untimely self-staged exit on September 12, 2008. His lingering literary presence meets a main character here, who becomes his final pupil. DFW's Posthumous Masterclass, as the title implies, brings back DFW to expound upon the high art of writing and the lower art of living. You have in your very hands this last masterwork from the posthumous master class of one David Foster Wallace, who wants you to know more about the origins of yogurt, and where Steve McQueen's last car can be found in this love letter into the abyss.

Maura Quarrels doesn't realize she's dead until her first college roommate (deceased) shows up and invites her to join the Dead Mothers' Club. Maura is excited - what better way to maintain control over her teenagers and husband! Unfortunately, it's not that simple. The DMC has strict rules and they don't suit Maura. Will she obey or risk banishment to hell? And where is her own mother, who died when Maura was young? Doesn't she care enough to be here to see her only daughter?

What if, after you die, your life just continues in exactly the same manner as when you were alive? In this riveting and often humorous novel by Robert Rahula, an American expat wakes up dead in Toledo, Spain, and discovers that nothing has changed, except that he is dead. He continues to interact with all his old friends, and they with him. Only he alone knows that he’s dead. In his journey through this afterlife, he ponders the choices he made during his life, the nature of consciousness, the nonexistence of free will, the flow of time, and existence of multiple universes.

The ghost of Ambrose Bierce, American writer and civil war Union soldier, has been displaced from the home he had been haunting. Enlisting the aid of a "haunting agent," he finds a new residence that has the requisite dark history and terrible secret that makes it appropriate for haunting. Here, he meets new spirits who reside in this version of the afterlife, a middle place between life and the ultimate destination. Against his intentions, Bierce becomes caught up in the unsolved mystery of his new haunt, and in the matters of still-living people.

The Storeroom Guys is a darkly comic listen for a foggy winter's night. It is a great piece of literature to get a conversation started about strange work colleagues, haunted spaces, post-traumatic stress, and surviving tough times. It has inspired graphic artists, theatre producers, and screen writers. For horror fans, there are lots of clever references to classics of the genre, but there is nothing jaded about the plot, and the twist is as satisfying as it is unexpected. The Guys has contemporary characters - but evil is timeless.

In this quirky ghost story, a woman endures jury duty by observing the many characters in the room, including a TV crew filming a paranormal presence in the courthouse, a service-dog-in-training, and a man with a "ghost box," a radio to try to communicate with the beyond. As humorous chaos ensues, our protagonist unexpectedly needs to confront the truth about the secret crush she’s been harboring.

Harvey Boyd is a small-town radio newsman who thinks the biggest story of his career is the murder trial of Angel Whaley, accused of offing her husband - rising country star Jared Whaley - in his dressing room before a show at a local nightclub. He has no idea. Following a field trip to the station by a group of sixth-graders, Harvey finds a suspicious document uploaded to his laptop. It had to have been put there by that quiet kid who'd slipped away from the tour and been caught at the computer....

Una familia estadounidense se va a vivir al castillo de Canterville en Inglaterra. Lord Canterville, el dueño anterior, les advierte que el fantasma de sir Simon de Canterville deambula en el edificio desde hace 300 años cuando asesinó a su esposa lady Eleonore de Canterville. Pero el Sr. Otis, estadounidense moderno y práctico, ignora las advertencias.

Ebenezer Scrooge - and his faithful greyhound, Carl - are visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. What follows is the story you know, but with a twist. With faithful Carl by his side, Scrooge experiences the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, taking away a lesson that will forever change his - and Carl’s - life forever.

Attacked at home by an unknown assailant, meek Lucille Stevenson should be dead, but she isn’t. She should have called the police, she should have told her family, she should have done a lot of things, but she didn’t. Because what Lucille did to her attacker went far beyond self-defense. It was cold, brutal, and vicious; and if anyone found out, her life would be over. Unfortunately, her biggest problem isn't getting rid of the body; it's that she really enjoyed killing the man and can't wait to do it again...