By Blake Crouch

Hiring back-country guides, a psychic, and a paranormal photographer to aid their investigation into the bizarre and abrupt disappearances of every citizen from a gold-mining town over a century earlier, a history professor and his journalist daughter embark on the journey aware that the last team that attempted to solve the mystery was never heard from again.

By James Herbert
Series Dvid Ash Novels

Visiting a secluded stately home that country locals believe to be haunted, paranormal investigator David Ash looks into stories about strange occurrences and makes a shocking discovery beyond anything he has ever encountered.

By Stephen King
Recommended By Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, grieving widower Mike Noonan returns to his former Maine getaway, only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations.

Became the TV mini-series: Bag of Bones.

By Nora Roberts
Series In the Garden Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Centering around three courageous women, who meet for the first time at a crossroads in their lives, this first installment in a brand new trilogy from the best-selling author follows Stella as she casts aside her fears and finds a special love that she will do anything to protect.

By Beverly Swerling
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

Relaunching her architectural history career by tracking down several long-missing pieces of ancient Judaica, recovering alcoholic Annie Kendall accepts the help of reporter Geoff Harris in an investigation with ties to a sixteenth-century Carthusian monk.

By Simone St. James

More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.

By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden files
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The only professional wizard in Chicago, Harry Dresden finds himself cast in the role of savior when black magic and necromancy threaten the city.

By Darynda Jones
Series Charley Davidson Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

Using her ability to see ghosts in her work as a private investigator, Charley Davidson begins experiencing intense sensual dreams about a mysterious entity that has been following her throughout her life.

By Mitch Albom
Recommended By Kalpana Mehta, Reference Librarian

“… retired baseball player Charley "Chick" Benetto-facing the pain of unfulfilled ambitions, alcohol abuse, divorce, and estrangement from a grown daughter-returns to his abandoned childhood home and attempts suicide in a bungling fit of rage. He encounters the spirit of his deceased mother, Pauline "Posey" Benetto, who Chick thoughtlessly took for granted … (Publisher’s Weekly).”

By Edith Wharton

Set in the bleak mansions of England, America, and Normandy, eleven classic tales depict the terrors of persons confronted by unearthly entities

By Tananarive Due

In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness.

By Adrian Plass

Mourning the death of his wife, David Herrick reluctantly accepts a reunion invitation by his former youth group members at a haunted house, at which the attendees share stories of lost faith, broken hearts, and compromised ideals.

By Jim Butcher
Series Dresden Files
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Chicago wizard-for-hire Harry Dresden confronts his latest and most dangerous challenge in the person of a ghost of an evil wizard who possesses the power to invade people's nightmares and uses other ghosts to wreak havoc on the living.

By Neil Gaiman

Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.

By Simone St. James

Sarah Piper's lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist a ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis rich, handsome, scarred by World War I, and obsessed with ghosts- has been summoned to investigate the spirit of nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is haunting the barn where she committed suicide. Since Maddy hated men in life, it is Sarah's task to confront her in death. Soon Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle.

By Joe Hill
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet.

By Audrey Niffenegger
With Jackie Ranaldo, Head of Readers' Services

Monday, November 22, 2010. 7 PM.

"Like its predecessor, The Time Traveler's Wife, Her Fearful Symmetry has a plot both vividly original and yet evocative of time–etched genres; in this case, the neo–gothic. The story involves Julia and Valentina, seemingly typical American teens who have inherited their aunt's London flat. The apartment, as it happens, sits beside Highgate Cemetery, a shadowy burial place that possesses a presence of its own. To this strange mix, Niffenegger adds a medley of neighbors with whole battalions of obsessions and other disorders. The plot is engulfing, the characters unforgettable (From the Publisher)."

By Stephen King

In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

By Karen Robards
Series Charlotte Stone Novels
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

Realizing the extent of her feelings for ghost Michael after an attack by a hostile specter, Charlotte Stone struggles to stay out of trouble while assisting her FBI friends in solving a gruesome murder case tied to a string of killings.

By Sarah Waters
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

“Waters reflects on the collapse of the British class system after WWII in a stunning haunted house tale … (Publishers Weekly).”

By Joe Hill
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The story of the Keyhouse, a New England mansion, with doors that transform all who walk through them...and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it opens the most terrible door of all.

By Alice Hoffman

During the steamy summer of 1959, a sleepy Long Island suburban community is transformed by the arrival of Nora Silk, an attractive young divorcee, and her two young sons.

By Clea Simon
Series Dulcie Schwartz Mysteries

Dulcie Schwartz finds herself the main suspect in the murder of her new roommate Tim after he is found dead, stabbed with her own knife, after being given a warning by a cat who is the spitting image of her recently departed Mr. Grey.

By Jeffrey Ford

In the wake of a classmate's disappearance, a sixth grader and his older brother observe strange events in 1960s Long Island, including the appearance of a man in a large white car and the deteriorating mental state of the school librarian.

By Stephen King

Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them.

By Sonja Condit

A pregnant woman who moves into her dream home discovers she must solve the mystery of a decades-old murder to rid herself of a ghostly little boy and save her unborn child.

By Julie Myerson
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

Seeking a new life in the countryside, Mary and her husband move into a long abandoned house, but when unusual sights and sounds begin to occur Mary starts questioning if her grief has turned into madness.

By Peter S. Beagle

"After moving with her mother to the English countryside, Jenny, a young American girl, begins to unravel a mystery on the grounds and uncovers evidence of another, hidden occupant of her new home, a 300-year old ghost named Tamsin (From the Publisher)."

By Émile Zola

Trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, Thérèse Raquin finds solace in a turbulent love affair with her husband's friend, Laurent, a passion that leads to a haunting crime, in a novel of adultery, murder, and madness.

By Yu Miri
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Haunting the park near Tokyo’s Uneo Station, the ghost of a man whose life eerily paralleled the Emperor’s reflects on the milestones that impacted his existence, from his homelessness and the 2011 tsunami to the 1964 and 2020 Olympics.

By Henry James
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, October 14, 2014. 7:30 PM.

A governess tries to protect the two young children in her care from the ghosts she believes are haunting them.

Became the movie: The Others.

By Sophie Kinsella

Entreated by the bossy ghost of her great aunt to track down a missing necklace, Lara Lington finds her search challenged by her floundering start-up business, her best friend's defection, and her unfaithful boyfriend.

By Christopher Rice

The dark history of Spring House, a beautifully restored plantation mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, has long been forgotten. But something sinister lurks beneath the soil of the old estate.

By Katarina Bivald
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

The best-selling author of The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend presents the story of a ghost who would help her friends heal and move on by reconnecting them with memories from their senior year of high school.

By Kate Mosse

Traveling through the French Pyrenees to process the horrors of World War I, Freddie meets a lovely young woman also in mourning with whom he exchanges stories that unravel a centuries-old mystery.