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Ghost Story

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Over There

"But she could feel it, like the rattling feeling that happened when you stood too close to giant speakers at a ball game—a rumble you felt in your guts more than a sound you heart. There was something cold and dark and very right-over-there and it meant for them to feel it." —A TOUCH OF RUCKUS by Ash Van Otterloo

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Dramatic Phenomenon

"Come now, darling. Every theater has its ghosts—surely you know that by now." —OLIVE AND THE BACKSTAGE GHOST by Michelle Schusterman

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Local Haunting

Book Cover: The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud

He shuddered, then drew his shoulders in and fiddled with his collar as if he suddenly felt cold. “No one knows what it is, or what its nature might be. But it has a local name.” He took a deep breath, then spoke in a voice of guttural dread. “We call it … the Creeping Shadow.”
The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud

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A Grave Scene

"Tombstones seemed to glow in the moonlight, as though they were having trouble holding back their ghosts." —DEATH AND DOUGLAS by J. W. Ocker

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Believe in Ghosts

It wasn’t that I did not believe in ghosts; it was that I believed in them in the same noncommittal way that I believed in giant squids or lucky coins or Belgium.
Jackaby by William Ritter

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Ghosts of Technology

When th ecylinder ended, the professor ceased cranking the handle and stepped away from the phonograph. "That is the closest thing to a ghost I've encountered," he said. "That is the sound of someone reaching out to us from the past. Haunting, is it not?" —A TASTE FOR MONSTERS by Matthew J. Kirby

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Bound to Happen

The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd

“I’m back here,” bellowed a voice that, unfortunately, belonged to my big brother, Topher, and not one of the dearly departed. I’d never actually seen a ghost in our kitchen; I’d only heard it banging around. But due to my home’s location, I figure I’m bound to run into a ghost eventually.
The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd

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Little Helpers

"They came from all directions, and there were thousands of them: big mice and little mice and middle-sized mice; and each one brought a piece of string in his mouth." —THE WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum

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Many Dangers

"His parents had read him stories about the things that happened to ogres who set foot beneath those trees. There were too many vengeful princes, boot-stealing villagers, and mystic rodents." —MULROX AND THE MALCOGNITOS by Kerelyn Smith

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