A Christmas Carol
The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 316
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: christmas, ghosts, ghost stories [X], england, misers, scrooge, ebenezer (fictitious character), cartoons and comics, poverty fiction, ghosts fiction, misers fiction, christmas fiction, great britain, england fiction, christmas stories, poor families, sick children, london (england) [X], scrooge, ebenezer (fictional character), didactic fiction, animated films, closed caption video recordings, dvds, poor, family life, sick, christmas stories, ghost stories, audiobooks, scrooge, ebenezer, fiction, juvenile works, holidays, film novelizations, audiobooks, compact discs, jewish holidays, fasts and feasts, christmas fiction
The Poisoned House
As the widowed master of an elegant house in Victorian-era London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: household employees, supernatural, ghosts, london (england) [X], great britain, ghost stories [X]
The Screaming Staircase
Follows three young operatives of a psychic detection agency as they battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 93
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: supernatural, haunted houses, psychic ability, ghosts, london (england) [X], england, ghost stories [X], paranormal fiction, psychics, ghost stories, paranormal fiction, large type books, large print books, fantasy fiction, mystery fiction
A Christmas Carol
A miser, who learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his life and forecast his future, shares his holiday with the Cratchit family.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1080
subjects: christmas, ghosts, ghost stories [X], england, scrooge, ebenezer (fictitious character), poor families, sick children, misers, scrooge, ebenezer (fictional character), london (england) [X], christmas stories, holidays
The Ghost Behind The Wall
Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: ghosts, memory, old age, apartment houses, ghost stories [X], london (england) [X], great britain
Constable & Toop
In Victorian London, an undertaker's son who can see ghosts and is haunted by their constant demands for attention must decide whether to help when a horrible disease imprisons ghosts into empty houses in the world of the living.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
The Name Of The Star
While spending a year at a boarding school in London, teenager Rory Deveaux of Louisiana witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and sets out to uncover the identity of the mysterious man that police believe to be the prime suspect in a string of brutal murders.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 57
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: private schools, school stories, homicide, witnesses, ghost stories [X], london (england) [X], england
The Madness Underneath
Having become a human terminus--a human who can eliminate ghosts just with a touch--after her encounter with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Deveaux has teamed up with the Shades, London's premiere, top-secret ghost-fighting squad.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: private schools, school stories, murder, ghost stories [X], london (england) [X], england, ghosts, supernatural, homicide
Her Fearful Symmetry
Twenty-year-old twins Valentina and Julia Poole inherit their aunt Elspeth Noblin's London apartment and travel from Chicago to England where they become caught up in the lives of their neighbors, including Martin, a crossword-puzzle setter with obsessive compulsive disorder, his devoted wife Marijke, and Elspeth's lover Robert, as well as the ghosts of the vast Highgate Cemetery next to the building.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
Lost
Winifred Rudge travels to London to jump-start her new novel, but instead she finds herself investigating the dissappearance of her stepcousin, whose apartment seems to have been taken over by a hostile spirit.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Children Next Door
Because she is shy and her parents worry that she has an overactive imagination, eleven-year-old Laura cannot ask straightforward questions about the two children she has heard playing in the yard next door.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Double Trouble Squared
In London with their family, telepathic twelve-year-old twins Liberty and July receive strange emanations from an early residence of Arthur Conan Doyle and discover a literary ghost.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: ghosts, twins, extrasensory perception, mystery and detective stories, ghost stories [X], london (england) [X]
The Whispering Skull
"Lockwood & Co. are hired to investigate Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead, while Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in a ghost jar"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 54
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: juvenile fiction / fantasy & magic, juvenile fiction / horror & ghost stories, juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, mystery and detective stories, psychic ability, england, london (england) [X], ghost stories [X], supernatural, paranormal fiction, ghosts, horror tales, horror fiction
The Hollow Boy
Supernatural visitors continue to cause trouble in London, and Lockwood & Co.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: supernatural, ghost stories [X], ghosts, england, london (england) [X], mystery and detective stories, ghost stories, mystery fiction, paranormal fiction
Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol
In this graphic retelling of the classic novel, Ebenezer Scrooge is warned by the ghost of Marley, his former partner, that he will be visited by the spirits of Christmas past, present, and future.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 420
subjects: dickens, charles, scrooge, ebenezer (fictitious character), ghost stories [X], graphic novels, london (england) [X], ghosts, christmas, cartoons and comics, scrooge, ebenezer (fictional character), christmas fiction, comic books, strips, etc