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Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts: Tales to Haunt You

by John Pierard · 1995

Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts series

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From the popular author of My Teacher Is An Alien comes a spooky collection of ghost stories for young readers. In stories that range all the way from the humrous to the frightening, Bruce Coville and other authors show that ghosts can touch our souls in ways both terrifying and wondrous!

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Themes
childhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrensyoung adult
Length
short · 180 pages
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“People who read Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts: Tales to Haunt You tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Ghost of a Hanged Man Vivian Vande Velde · 1998
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“If you want more of the same (horror about childhood), start with these.”

  1. Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery Alfred Hitchcock · 1962
  2. A Touch of Chill Joan Aiken · 1979
  3. 13 Ghosts: Strange But True Ghost Stories Will Osborne · 1988
  4. Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares: Tales to Make You Scream · 1995

“If it was the childhood that hooked you, try one of these.”

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  3. Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones Alvin Schwartz · 1991
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“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Bruce Coville's Book of Magic: Tales to Cast a Spell on You · 1996
  2. Ghost Town Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Tim Waggoner · 2012
  3. Haunted Asylums, Prisons, and Sanatoriums: Inside Abandoned Institutions for the Crazy, Criminal & Quarantined Jamie Davis · 2013
  4. We're Going On a Ghost Hunt Kris Hirschmann · 2011

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