Adult Ghost Mysteries

When homeless college student Sarah finds a well-paying nanny job for the summer, she can’t believe her luck. But it doesn’t take long to learn why the pay is so high. The house is haunted and she must learn to live with it if she wants a roof over her head. Supernatural redecorating and shifting curtains could be pranks from the children, but can children manifest cold drafts? Will Sarah find a way to set the home’s restless spirits at peace, or will she find herself back on the streets?

Jeffrey Stanton is an ambitious young man with everything to live for. As the resident manager of a world-renowned hotel, and with his beautiful wife Anna by his side, he could ask for little more. But fortune can be fleeting as Jeffrey learns one fateful Halloween night. As his dream world is abruptly and dramatically turned upside down, he struggles to come to terms with life, loss, and a future seemingly without hope. Will the ghosts of his past help Jeffrey emerge from the depths of despondency or drive him ever deeper into the clutches of despair?

An isolated castle. A young girl in a turret room. A ghostly figure that pursues her at night. Anna spends her days, and some nights, wandering the shadowy halls and winding staircases of her mother’s sprawling castle estate, The Manor. Peeking out of the huge windows, peering up at its resplendent ceilings, and looking out across the sprawling natural landscape as the sun sets over the heavily wooded forest outside, Anna feels overwhelmingly intrigued, and undeniably trapped. Sometimes, she hears eerie noises coming from the attic above, and the crypt underground, both of which she has ...

A Cursed Artifact that Delays Death? When a healing artifact delays death, what is the downside? With any cursed antique, there is always a price to pay. Cecilia, Clarence and Edgar discover a new enemy and a familiar face when they travel to collect an antique crucible that's too good to be true. Or have they encountered an artifact that shouldn't be locked away? Find out in the newest adventure in the Curiosity Shop Cozy Mysteries

I am not welcome. Somehow I know that. Something doesn’t want me here. Daffodil Franklin has plans for a quiet summer before her freshman year at college, and luckily, she’s found the job that can give her just that: house-sitting a mansion for a wealthy couple. But as the summer progresses and shadows lengthen, Daffodil comes to realize the house is more than it appears. The spacious home seems to close in on her, and as she takes the long road into town, she feels eyes on her the entire way and something tugging her back.

Seventeen-year-old Josephine Jagger is a talented writer with special abilities she doesn't fully understand. Over the years she has developed methods to cope with the voices she hears in her head, but the old house her family has inherited in Vermont makes Josephine question what's real and what's not more than anything she's ever encountered before. It's filled with shadows, and whispers, and the unshakable feeling of being watched. Josephine then catches her first glimpse of a shadowy woman with long hair, pale skin, an impossibly wide smile and hollow pits for eyes.

This book is a collection of 10 short horror stories. The Pantry in The Basement A lot of people think that basements can be a bit on the scary side, but there was always something about that house with the blocked off pantry in the basement. Secret rooms aren't always a pleasant surprise for everyone, as Paul and Stephanie would learn. The Girl Who Loved to Smile Everyone talks about the importance of smiling. They say it makes you look more attractive and charming. What they fail to mention is that the reason for smiling can be more important than the smile itself. Everyone talks about ...

Don't Gaze at the Looking Glass...You Might Go Insane Cecilia and Clarence search for a cursed scrying mirror, but they need help...in the shape of an ally or foe....which hasn't been determined yet. Lila Twill is back and is she out for herself, working with the Cabal, or genuinely interested in helping our dynamic trio? ( including the ghost Edgar of course). Cecilia's dreams continue to haunt her. Are they simply dreams or a distant past in another place in time? And will the looking glass give her the answers she seeks or turn her world upside down? Don't miss the fourth book in the ...

Rain of the Ghosts is the first in Greg Weisman's series about a young girl, Rain Cacique, who discovers she has a mystery to solve, a mission to complete and, oh, yes, the ability to see ghosts. Welcome to the Prospero Keys (or as the locals call them, the Ghost Keys), a beautiful chain of tropical islands on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle. It's the last weekend before school starts, and Rain already feels trapped.

Something’s rotten in Apple country! Hildy Biddle is a high school reporter eager to stand up for the truth. She’s just waiting for a chance to prove herself as a journalist, and yearning for a big story. The trouble is, the town’s biggest story stars...a ghost. Not a very easy interview! This ghost has the town in a tizzy, and the local paper is playing up people’s fears with shocking headlines of eerie happenings and ghostly sightings. Hildy’s determined to discover what’s really going on, but her desire to uncover the truth is making some people awfully nervous.

A fast-paced supernatural thrill ride filled with demonic villains set in the heart of South Florida! My name is Patrick Bannon, and I'm a demonologist. Most people would agree that the study of demons isn’t a practical area of research. Lucky for me, Miami has never been a practical kind of city. With more reported cases of demonic possession than any other two cities combined, the jewel of South Florida can be a dangerous place for those who don’t respect it, and when trouble strikes, it falls to me to set it right. Now a renowned Catholic reverend is dead, and the church wants to ...

I’m Natasha, a dark blood. In plain speak, I'm naturally drawn to dark magic and forces of the wrong kind. That's not the half of it. The powerful Guild of Mages, in charge of maintaining order among the magical, is all too eager to brand me a rogue. I wanted to be normal, away from magic, free from the perpetual tug-of-war between light and dark that rages within me. Had it not been for the money I needed to keep my brother alive, I would have totally fought off that intense craving to use my powers. Being a magical investigator seemed like an easy and respectable way to have it all. ...

When Roumoult Cranston drives to Newburgh to attend a family reunion, a hired assassin awaits him. He survives the attack, but this is only the beginning and the NYPD suspect a malicious murderer is hiring assassins to kill Roumoult. Despite the warnings of his father and the NYPD, Roumoult takes matters into his own hands and discovers a crypt hiding a deadly secret. A secret that links him to the killer, a secret that he would take to his grave. But that’s not all. Roumoult and the killer are descendants of powerful men. Men with murderous intent. Men who would stop at nothing. Roumoult...

The Harbinger is lost, sunk to the bottom of an otherworldly sea. Every soul that ever died and was protected within its hold has been lost along with it. But at least that precious cargo is out of reach of the demon Urcena and her army of soul-devouring monsters. For now. The soul keepers are broken, scattered, and barely clinging to existence without their ship or any way to collect or protect the souls of the newly dead.

After their fateful stay at the Hearst Hotel, the Ghost Gang is back with more spooks and more subscribers. They’ve been invited to record onboard the RMS Queen Anne, a transatlantic luxury ocean liner with a colorful past of violent deaths of hundreds of passengers—souls that bought a one-way ticket to the afterlife (and never disembarked). When Chrissy, Chase, Kiki, and Emma board the ship, they have a funny feeling they’ve been sucked into a ghostly time warp—a theory that takes a frightening turn when Chrissy goes missing on the first night.

The Noxhelm Murders is a Young Adult Horror Mystery by Dr. Bon Blossman. Shana Murphy’s life shatters as she is swept away from her hometown of Boston to the mysterious, isolated town of Noxhelm. Under the strict guidelines of the federal witness protection program, this teenage mob child is stripped of her identity and must move into what the locals call Ripper House - a haunted estate built by a serial killer during the Great Depression. The legend holds that insanity, despair, and even death have plagued the former inhabitants of this cursed estate. Before settling into her new life, ...

Seventeen-year-old Aria Cayetano dreams of ghosts. She used to see them too, but thanks to a special tea brewed by her grandfather, Aria’s connection to the spirit world has been severed. Until a decades old rosebush suddenly dies across the street, convincing Aria that something supernatural is happening in her neighborhood. She aches to investigate it, but the rosebush sits on her ex-best friend Derek Johnson’s front lawn, and she can't question him because he hates her now.

A heartbroken ghost searches in vain for her baby. Pekin Dewlap and her best friends Scout and Amber are hired to help her spirit go into the light by the kindhearted homeowners who've grown fond of the crying ghost. The teens move into the house while their clients are on a cruise, and their first order of business is to find out the ghost's identity. A neighbor is able to provide the name of the house's last owner, and the story of how his wife died in childbirth. Now, armed with the ghost's name, along with those of her husband and baby daughter, it's time to set the ghost free.

Enchanted Relics, Shadowy Orders, and a Mischievous Phantom Upon her return to the mystical town of Destiny Point, Cecilia Parish expects to aid her ailing uncle and his revered antique emporium. Little does she know, her world is about to shift into realms of enchantment and peril. While all antiques carry tales of the past, some harbor curses, casting shadows and weaving malevolent fates around those who possess them. Her uncle, far from a mere collector, is a guardian. He seeks out these cursed relics to shield the world from their dark allure and the malefic desires of those yearning ...

A Mysterious man... Feelings of foreboding... A Creepy murder... A Cranky kitty... Fern's not feeling well and neither is Mazie. Both sisters are under a cloud of fogginess that nothing seems to lift. Combine that with the new stranger in town who likes to frequent the Civil War Battlefield and Amber's store, the Witches Cauldron, we've got trouble. The man even gives Colonel Augustus Monroe the heebee jeebees. When the odd fellow ends up dead in a creepy manner, the sisters must help a friend in need. But what they discover will rock their world and change it forever.