Lekas, Gerry
Summary: "This isn't your average travel book--and these aren't your average tourist destinations! Take a wild ride through hidden Windy City history--often dark, sometimes inexplicable, and occasionally glamorous. Meet the gangsters, ghosts, serial killers and celebrities that only Chicago could produce. This journey into eclectic Chicago lore includes: 19 spine-tingling creepy sites (Resurrection...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lyon Publishing, LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.311 LEKJones, Dan C.
Summary: Thirty-two short stories chosen from the tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America, featuring witches, walking dolls, hungry skeletons, skinwalkers, and other supernatural beings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 JONSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.25 SchCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCHKonishi, Noriyuki
Summary: "Join Nate as he befriends the Yo-kai of the hit video game Yo-kai Watch! Nate Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him the Yo-kai Watch. Now he can see what others cannot: Yo-kai of all shapes and forms!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KONBarnett, Mac
Summary: Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BARSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death, they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories, collected and retold by folklorist Alvin Schwartz. These horrific tales are guaranteed to raise goosebumps. Let the faint of heart beware. Pull up a chair, find a hand to hold, and prepare to be horrified. Includes: Scary Stories to Tell in the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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Summary: "Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022
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Summary: Haunted after helping her father on his ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, twelve-year-old Claire must discover what the spectral boy from the bus wants before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.25 SCH1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCH
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.25 SCHJoven, John
Summary: "Fee! Fi! Fo! Fum! This wonderfully illustrated collection of stories is bursting with funny and fantastic characters from all around the world, including stomping giants, angry ogres, a very greedy troll, and a snorting, snarling minotaur lurking in a labyrinth." -- Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Books, EDC 2021
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Summary: "When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary -- just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day when he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RUBRandall, Ronne.
Summary: Three billy goats attempt to cross a bridge guarded by a hungry troll.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parragon 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RANSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: Presents seven easy-to-read ghost stories based on traditional folk tales and legends from various countries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1993
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SCHSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1986
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCHSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.25 SCHSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1991
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCHSchwartz, Alvin
Summary: Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott 1981
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Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLETulien, Sean
Summary: Three clever billy goats find themselves trapped in a video game, confronting the Hillside Castle run by a monster troll--and they have to use their new superpowers to get past the castle to the green field of grass, and lunch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 FARSummary: Presents a collection of tales read by accomplished actors.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rabbit Ears Entertainment LLC 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CANAtelier Sentō (Firm)
Summary: What happens when the living risk their lives to save the souls of the dead? Every summer, in an isolated Japanese village, a celebration known as the Festival of Shadows takes place. The villagers are entrusted to assist the troubled souls or "shadows" of those who died tragically, and to help them come to terms with their deaths and find eternal peace. Naoko, a young girl born in the village,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ATEGodfrey, Linda S.
Summary: Explores ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Publishing 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 GODCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.74 GodCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.4 GODDeen, Natasha
Summary: "When Asim moves to a new town, he must save his new teacher when an evil spirit from Guyanese folklore begins to wreak havoc"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022