Being Dead
10 best books like Being Dead (Vivian Vande Velde): The Ghosts of Stone Hollow, Jade Green, The Ghost Next Door, Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New, Odder Than Ever, A Wizard's Dozen: Stories Of The Fantastic, Switching Well, Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales, The Dreamwalker's Child, Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0718823478 |
I am new to Zilpha Keatley Snyder with an odd, long name but see that she is award-winning through other novels. This 1974 one didn't need to be set in 1938 and doesn't feel like it is in 1938, thus I don't know the authoress' purpose but most of it felt relevant. A strong, sour exception was one teacher's attitude...
| Author | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Secrets
Orphaned fifteen-year-old Judith Sparrow brings two secrets to her uncle's house in South Carolina: one, that her grief-stricken mother died in a madhouse, the other that she has disobeyed the only condition to living in her uncle's home -- nothing green is allowed in the house.
Judith...
| Author | Wylly Folk St. John |
| ISBN | 0671442902 |
Sherry Alston had never been told about her dead half-sister Miranda. So when Sherry came to visit her Aunt Judith, no one could explain the odd things that started to happen. Who was the elusive friend Sherry said she saw in the garden? Was she an imaginary playmate - or could she be the ghost of Miranda...
| Author | Marvin Kaye |
| ISBN | 0385185065 |
Marvin Kaye
Saralee Kaye
Introduction (Ghosts) • Marvin Kaye
A Prologue of Last Words • Marvin Kaye
Minuke • (1949) • Nigel Kneale
The Wind in the Rose-Bush • (1902) • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Legal Rites • (1950) • Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
Smee...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 0152024654 |
Beloved for his hilarious and unexpectedly moving novels, Bruce Coville is also a master of the short story. In this follow-up to Oddly Enough, he again presents a collection of unusual breadth and emotional depth. A ghost who died under uproarious circumstances haunts a kitchen baking “Biscuits...
| Author | Michael Stearns |
| ISBN | 0590865420 |
Do you believe in magic? For this collection is overflowing with everything mystical, magical, fantastic and unbelievable. This book features stories by Patricia Wrede, Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville and many others. "A balanced and pleasing introduction to the genre".--School Library Journal.
"Do...
| Author | Peni R. Griffin |
| ISBN | 0780748204 |
The two of them live in the same town--Amber in 1991, and Ada in 1891--and they both have real problems. Amber's parents are getting divorced, and she seems to be the last to know. Ada's father doesn't think women have minds of their own. So the two troubled girls hit on the same solution: they each go to the...
| Author | Deborah Noyes |
| ISBN | 0763627372 |
"Get ready to sleep with the lights on!" — GIRLS' LIFE
A lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant . . . a serial killer who defies death . . . a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds a grotesque secret within its peeling walls. Here are witches who feast on faces,...
| Author | Steve Voake |
| ISBN | 1582346615 |
Fifteen-year-old Sam Palmer's life is dull--until a bizarre bicycle accident leaves him in a coma. Sam awakens in Aurobon, a world eerily similar to his own, only to discover that his accident was part of an elaborate abduction by a ruler with a deadly agenda. Now Sam must team up with a fearless girl pilot...
| Author | Neal Shusterman |
| ISBN | 0142407216 |
Imagine being trapped forever in someone else’s nightmare, with no means of escape. Or caught on one of the most terrifying roller coasters of all time, when suddenly the tracks ahead just disappear. Enter the world of Darkness Creeping, where hollow-eyed skulls arrive in the mail and nothing is...
Transcendent: Tales of the Paranormal
| Author | Lani Woodland |
| ISBN | 0615572324 |
Sometimes, it's just nice to take a break. For me, that's exactly what TRANSCENDENT gave me. The shorter stories lacked nothing in POP, but were fast and easy to zip through making it all about relaxation and enjoyment. As a writer who does a lot of reading for work, it was nice to read something that felt...
| Author | Betty Ren Wright |
| ISBN | 0590435981 |
Not all nightmares happen when you're asleep. . .
Jessica's nightmares begin as soon as she and her family move into her grandmother's isolated country house. Jessica is so afraid that she can hardly sleep. Her fears deepen as the ghostly young woman who haunts her dreams begins to appear--even...
| Author | E.E. Richardson |
| ISBN | 0552552615 |
Joel Demetrius is quite looking forward to moving in with his new step-family, but as far as his sister Cassie's concerned, they're nothing but intruders. She doesn't want anything to do with Gerald and his two sons, and to make matters worse their new home is a derelict old house, neglected for decades....
| Author | A.J. Paquette |
| ISBN | 0802722970 |
Luchi Ann only knows a few things about herself: she was born in a prison in Thailand. Her American mother was an inmate there. And now that her mother has died, Luchi must leave the only place she's ever known and set out into the world. Neither at home as a Thai, because of her fair skin and blond hair, nor...
| Author | Robert D. San Souci |
| ISBN | 0812626885 |
This illustrated collection by the author of Short and Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales includes ghost tales, “jump” stories, dark fantasy, and science fiction, all set in contemporary situations that will seem hauntingly familiar to young readers. Several of the stories draw on the rich heritage...
| Author | Richard Dansky |
| ISBN | 0786948566 |
A riveting supernatural mystery like you've never read before.
The prodigal son leaves the big city to return to his dearly departed parent's house in North Carolina only to find, now that he's home, that something is trying to make damn sure he stays there--even if it means burying him out back.
In...
| Author | Leslie Rule |
| ISBN | 0740761757 |
I do not know or pretend to know what happens when we die. Still, I hear the ghost scream. I hear the screaming and am compelled to write the stories of those whose lives were snatched away. They are the murder victims, the ones who roam restlessly. They are the headliners of this book." --Leslie Rule
Hauntings--the...
| Author | Elizabeth Cody Kimmel |
| ISBN | 0439062594 |
Another book from my childhood that I cannot depart with. The first time I read this story was when I was about 8(? ... years ago) because I was grounded. I had done something to upset my mother and she sent me to my room, saying "No TV, radio, or toys for the rest of the day! Read a book!" And being the 'gotta-have-the-last-word'...
Sweet Miss Honeywell's Revenge: A Ghost Story
| Author | Kathryn Reiss |
| ISBN | 0152054715 |
Zibby Thorne doesn't know what possessed her to buy an antique dollhouse--she doesn't even like dolls. But when her friends and family start having bizarre accidents clearly connected to the dollhouse, she can't ignore the menacing structure any longer.
Zibby is sure that one particularly...
The Scary States of America
| Author | Michael Teitelbaum |
| ISBN | 0385733313 |
Aliens, ghosts, and monsters haunt the pages of this eerie trip around the Scary States of America. With Jason Specter—the nation's unofficial collector of all things paranormalÑas your guide meet the girl in Illinois who can start fires with her mind, the Skunk Ape of Florida that knocks victims...
Jane-Emily, and Witches' Children
| Author | Patricia Clapp |
| ISBN | 0061245011 |
Emily was a selfish, willful, hateful child who died before her thirteenth birthday. But that was a long time ago.
Jane is nine years old and an orphan when she and her young Aunt Louisa come to spend the summer at Jane's grandmother's house, a large, mysterious mansion in Massachusetts. Then...
Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps: True Tales of an Accidental Ghost Hunter
| Author | Adam Selzer |
| ISBN | 0738715573 |
Do ghosts really exist, or is "ghostly phenomena" just strange stuff that gets blamed on dead people? Giving you the real story, professional ghostbuster and skeptic Adam Selzer of Weird Chicago Tours delves into a mysterious death at a former funeral parlor, nightly ghost sightings at Hull House,...
