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Dare You Enter a Haunted House?

Haunted houses with malevolent spirits, can you handle the spine-chilling fear and enter? You'll do so at your own risk. 01.22

Mid-Continent Public Library

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  • On the run with his two daughters, Eric Ross is desperate for money, and it's not easy to find work when you can't provide references. When he comes across an ad for the 'Masson House' needing a caretaker, he hopes he's found a lucky…
    BookNew York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — F COMPTON
  • Jade Nguyrn's father is fixing up a French colonial house he intends to rent as a vacation rental. When she spends the summer with him, the house and its ghosts have other plans.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2023. — YF TRAN
  • For generations, the Hull Family has owned the Gallows Hill winery. When Margot's parents die unexpectedly, she inherits the house, the winery, and the family secrets. The locals whisper that the site is cursed; alone in the dilapidated…
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2022] — F COATES
  • Valerie lives alone in her Victorian House, a home rumored to be haunted by a tragedy decades earlier. Dealing with forgetting things, and with her daughter worried, she options to have her son Hudson move in with her, but the reunion…
    BookDon Mills, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2022] — F GARZA
  • Two years after the war, Tom Harkin, a former officer, arrives at Kilcolgan House, a grand old estate, to work as a tutor. But it's not the impressive estate it once was. Half abandoned and filled with ghosts, the estate's family co-exists…
    BookNew York : Arcade Publishing, 2022. — F RYAN
  • After the Mexican War, Beatriz accepts a marriage proposal of a wealthy landowner. He whisks her off to his remote country estate, a place that holds secrets of its own, and they are bent on making Beatriz's life living hell.
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2022. — F CANAS
  • A socialite is drawn is set to check on her cousin, is she in danger from her new husband? A rotting, crumbling mansion, rotten with the stench of decay, She soon starts to fear for her own life, as well as her cousins.
    BookNew York : Del Rey, [2020] — F MORENO-GARCIA
  • Marion, a bloodmaid is swept into the world of lust and blood, run by a feared Countess, who pulls her into a game of cat and mouse.
    BookNew York : Ace, [2022] — F HENDERSON
  • A beloved classic. Arriving at Manderly, Maxim de Winter's grey stone mansion, his new wife struggles to adapt. With the air of his first wife's presence lingering and the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, undying devoted to her. She becomes…
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Harper, 2006. — F DU MAURIER
  • (Nonfiction) Read the shocking account of the story that inspired the classic horror movie of the same name. This book recounts the experiences of the Lutz family in the infamous house where Ronald DeFeo murdered his parents, brothers, and…
    BookNew York : Gallery Books, 2019. — 133.42 AN82AM
  • Angela Toussaint returns to Sacajawea, WA, two years after her son's death to find closure. What she finds instead is the troubled history of the powerful Toussaint line filled with possession and Vodou magic, and at the center of it all…
    BookNew York : Washington Square Press, 2004. — F DUE
  • Growing up in a one-room prison, Cathy, Chris, and the twins are kept hidden in the attic until their grandfather dies so their mother will receive an impressive inheritance. years pass and terrible things start to occur.
    BookNew York : Gallery Books, 2019. — F ANDREWS
  • Anthropologist and ghost hunter Dr. John Montague invites three strangers to stay in the haunted Hill House for the summer. One of the guests is 32-year-old Eleanor, for whom three months in a haunted house is preferable to caring for her…
    BookNew York, New York : Penguin Books, 2013. — F JACKSON
  • A new job at the Overlook hotel is the perfect opportunity for a fresh start for Jack Torrance and his family. An idyllic location until strange things start happening. Only his five-year-old son notices the strange and terrible forces…
    BookNew York : Anchor Books, 2012. — F KING
  • Hired by a dying millionaire, four people enter the infamous 'Hell House" for a week to investigate the hell inside.
    BookNew York : Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 1999. — F MATHESON
  • When Maggie was six, their family fled Baneberry hall in the middle of the night. Her father writes a book about the supernatural events that forced them to leave, and now, after his death, Maggie attempts to discover the truth.
    BookNew York : Dutton, [2020] — F SAGER
  • Dr. Faraday is called to Hundreds Hall to treat the family's son. A supernatural presence is in the house, the Dr refuses to believe even though he wit
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2009. — F
  • Taking a job as a governess, she moves to Gaudlin Hall in the idyllic countryside of Norfolk, England. Soon she realizes why the advertisement was cryptic, a malevolent spirit grips the hall, and Eliza must protect the children.
    BookNew York : Other Press, 2013. — F BOYNE