Central Kansas Library System

A collection of stories about eerie encounters in various ghost towns across the United States. Each story is accompanied by an afterword about the actual town on which the story is based.

While on a cruise with his family, twelve-year-old Dusty encounters the ghost of an Arawak Indian girl through whom he comes to terms with his fears.

"Derek's brother Ronny isn't himself. No, really. Ronny's body has been taken over by the long-dead soul of a man named Virgil Black. Lucky for him, Virgil is one of the good guys. Not all of them are. In fact, a Legion of evil souls is staging a serious comeback. And they're staging it at Bayou Malpierre, the site of Derek's most horrible nightmare. That nightmare is about to get even worse..."--P. [4] of cover.

The story of the new schoolmaster and his romantic rivalry with the local Brom Bones, and the legendary ghost the headless horseman.

When her family moves to the Virginia countryside, eleven-year-old Melinda, her older brother, and their new friend Dan work together to solve the mystery of a Civil War-era ghost who is haunting their house.

When fourteen-year-old Drew and her mute younger brother come to live with their father's estranged relatives after their parents' sudden death, they learn that the house is haunted by ghosts and discover a deadly family secret.

Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.

Priscilla Howe tells stories about a family and sings a couple of songs.

Thirteen-year-old Caitlan looks forward to the camping trip with her older sister in the woods of northern Minnesota, but she doesn't count on the intrusion of her sister's boyfriend or the ghost of a boy who died in the fire that destroyed the forest a century before.

Marco Martinez is not looking forward to his school's lock-in event. He'd rather work on his latest coding project. But when weird noises in the school's media center have students spooked, Marco is on the case. He writes up a code to alert him of any ghost-like activity. But does he have more than ghosts to be afraid of?