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Summary: Haunting of Hill House meets found-footage horror in this edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores the power of family ties and the trauma that lurks there. When Sophia Galich was twelve, she starred in her older sister Layla's amateur horror movie Vermillion, which recorded raw footage of her very real reactions to scenes her sister concocted in their old Californian house on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing 2023
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Summary: When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate, along with a nine-figure fortune...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Iggy is delighted when Ada Twist's Aunt Bernice inherits a mansion featuring his favorite architectural periods, but unless the Questioneers can find its missing antiques, the house may be lost forever. Includes information about Art Deco and Art Nouveau, facts about unusual cats, a recipe for ice cream, and a biographical note on Ida B. Wells.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Looking for a fresh start, sixteen-year-old Libby and her family return to her mother's childhood home only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FRANesbø, Jo
Summary: "From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel. In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NESLittle, Bentley
Summary: Julian and Claire Perry and their two children, Megan and James, have made the move to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district. But something isn't right. The neighbors seem reluctant to visit. Claire can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Megan receives increasingly menacing and obscene texts. And James is having terrible dreams. No wonder, considering what he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LITGolden, Christopher
Summary: "Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild - selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECoulter, Catherine
Summary: Much like the hero of his frightening gothic adventure stories, well-known English author Grayson Sherbrooke has his own share of run-ins with peculiar supernatural beings, both good and evil. From his home on the northern coast of England, Sherbrooke leaps into these otherworldly mysteries to find the truth with the help of his son, Pip; his beautiful neighbor, Miranda, and her daughter, P....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUStilton, Geronimo
Summary: Geronimo explores a haunted mansion populated by ghosts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2004
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Summary: When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC GAIReid, Ava
Summary: Entering a contest to redesign late author Emrys Myrddin's estate, aspiring architect Effy Sayre arrives at Hiraeth Manor where she meets a stodgy young literature scholar who draws her into a battle against dark forces - both mortal and magical - that threatens to consume them both.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC REIKhan, Shubnum
Summary: "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEHawkins, Rachel
Summary: Rachel Hawkins returns with a twisted new gothic suspense about an infamous heiress and the complicated inheritance she left behind. There's nothing as good as the rich gone bad. When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction HawkinsWhite, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: "After a difficult detour on her road to adulthood, Nola Trenholm is looking to begin anew in New Orleans, and what better way to start her future than with her first house? But the historic fixer-upper she buys comes with even more work than she anticipated, as the house's previous occupants don't seem to be ready to depart. Although she can't communicate with ghosts like her stepmother can,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction White 2022Schwab, Victoria
Summary: Olivia has always wanted to belong somewhere. Summoned from boarding school, she arrives at Gallant, where no one is expecting her. Olivia knows that Gallant is hiding secrets, and she is determined to uncover them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SCHStine, R. L.
Summary: Josh and Amanda just moved into the oldest and weirdest house on the block. It might even be haunted. But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. So Josh and Amanda do. But these creepy new friends are not exactly what Mom and Dad had in mind ... Because they want to be friends ... forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015