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A Christmas Carol

author: Dickens, Charles, Dickens, Ryder, Joanne, Charles Dickens, Ponti, James, Carrey, Jim, Tavner, Gill
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

The Poisoned House

author: Ford, Michael
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

author: Stroud, Jonathan
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

A Christmas Carol

author: Dickens, Charles
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

The Ghost Behind The Wall

author: Burgess, Melvin
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

author: Jones, Gareth P
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
subjects: ghost stories [X], future life, london (england) [X], great britain

The Name Of The Star

author: Johnson, Maureen
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

author: Johnson, Maureen
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

author: Niffenegger, Audrey
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
subjects: sisters, spiritual life, ghost stories [X], ghosts, london (england) [X]

Lost

author: Maguire, Gregory
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:
subjects: women authors, americans, missing persons, london (england) [X], ghost stories [X]

The Children Next Door

author: Ure, Jean
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:
subjects: ghosts, bashfulness, shyness, ghost stories [X], london (england) [X]

Double Trouble Squared

author: Lasky, Kathryn
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

author: Stroud, Jonathan
"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

The Hollow Boy

author: Stroud, Jonathan
Supernatural visitors continue to cause trouble in London, and Lockwood & Co.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710

Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol

author: Harper, Benjamin
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

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