Monroe Free Library

A close-knit Jewish family in London is pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch.

"Freddie McFright is eager to join the world's most elite scarers. After all, his grandfather was a founding member of SPIRIT and a legend among menaces. To prove himself, Freddie must haunt a family suffering from a serious case of SAD-Severe Apparition Denial. Can he scare them out of their un-boo-lieving ways? The Society of Paranormal, Invisible, and Restless Imps and Terrors has a problem: due to so-called "science," the living are believing...

"Gracie O'Ghoul loves to help out her parents on their farm-but all her attempts at helping end in huge messes! Her parents decide that helping SPIRIT is just what Gracie needs to keep her busy. So, they send her to the local elementary school to scare her fellow students and earn her place in SPIRIT. Knowing it's her duty to disturb, Gracie will give it her bloodcurdling best. But what should a ghost do if she'd rather make friends? The Society of...

"A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches. The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it's just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew - and they're all owed something only she can give them... Now, over one hundred years later,...

A collection of thirteen stories, all thrillingly weird in their various ways, from eminent authors written over a period from the ancient world to the present day.

"There are stories so terrible that we tremble to hear even a whisper of them. Even more terrible, some of them are true.This is one such story, a story of our deepest inhumanity--one that confronts the history of violence against children, and through its young narrator attempts to find a way out. A horror story and ghost story told as much through art as through text, The Book of Denial is an antidote to our collective silence. By uplifting storytelling...

The Ghost Gang is invited to record onboard a haunted cruise ship.

"A lonely ghost finds a friend in a bright red balloon"--Provided by publisher. "It isn’t always easy for a ghost to make friends; even a rosy-cheeked ghost with big glasses. Ghost lives in a noisy, diverse city where children play and laugh, and longs to join in. But most people look right through Ghost. When a bright red balloon wanders Ghost’s way, the connection is instantaneous. Together they try everything Ghost had ever hoped to share...

In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn't approve...