The following books can be found in the Adult Fiction or Mystery collections alphabetized by the author's last name. If you need assistance please ask at the desk.

Location Codes:
MN=Main Library
RM=Red Mountain Library (East Mesa)
DR=Dobson Ranch Library

Boehm, Deborah Boliver. Ghost of a Smile.
This collection of eight short stories contains some of the best variations on classic ghost, werewolf, and vampire tales; all based here on traditional Japanese folklore. Fiction (MN, RM)

Butler, Robert Olen. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.
This Pulitzer Prize winning short stories collection features stories about Vietnamese immigrants living in Louisiana as they face love, loss, despair, and the challenges and conflicts of a new life. Fiction (MN, DR)

Dickens, Charles. The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens
Collects short stories of weird supernatural occurrences, the horrifying appearances of ghosts, and men haunted by strange spirits. Fiction (MN, DR)

Girardi, Robert. Madeleine's Ghost.
Follows a restless ghost as she yearns for the touch that will release her from her purgatory, while a young historian searches for true love in New Orleans. Fiction (MN, RM)

Haines, Carolyn. Crossed Bones.
Haunted by a busybody ghost and constantly nagged about finding a husband, thirty something Mississippi private detective Sarah Booth Delaney investigates the murder of a black blues-club owner and finds herself caught in the middle of a town torn apart by racial prejudice when the victim's white protégée becomes the prime suspect in the killing. Mystery (MN, DR, RM)

Hecht, Daniel. City of Masks: A Cree Black Thriller.
Returning to her ancestral New Orleans home, Lila Beauforte is tormented by an insidious and violent specter, until her brother calls in "ghostbusters" Cree Black and her partner to unlock the mystery of the historic house. Fiction (MN, DR,RM)

Hynd, Noel. Cemetery of Angels.
Moving their family to beautiful Southern California, Bill and Rebecca Moore find the dramatic scandal associated with their new home charming, until a series of strange and inexplicable occurrences culminates in their children's disappearance. Fiction (MN, RM)

Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House.
Four strangers are gathered to live together as an anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house. Fiction (MN, DR, RM)

James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw.
As shadowy twin creatures of evil haunt an isolated estate, a young governess watches in horror as she realizes that Miles and Flora--her two young charges--want the ghosts to claim them. Fiction (MN, RM)

James, Peter. Possession.
Alex Hightower's only son, Fabian, is killed in a car crash, but soon Fabian's spirit makes its presence felt, and then seen, stalking his mother who must battle against his determination to possess her soul. Fiction (DR, RM)

King, Stephen. The Shining.
Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them, as they journey into a world in which old horrors come to life to destroy the living. Fiction (MN, DR, RM)

Masterton, Graham. The House that Jack Built.
Craig Bellman and his wife Effie purchase a derelict old mansion with a terrifying history of tragedy and death, and despite efforts to rid the mansion of evil vibrations via a local spiritualist, it appears that the spirit of the original owner, Jack Belias, is still with them. Fiction (MN)

Meyer, Joanne. Heavenly Detour.
Returning to Earth as a ghost after being murdered, Annie Edelstein Down, while attempting to save her family and friends from losing their minds, tries to help Charlene, the cop investigating her suspicious demise. Fiction (MN, DR, RM)

Michaels, Barbara. Here I Stay.
A beautifully authentic, handsomely appointed Victorian house-turned-country inn, with its own private graveyard includes among its residents and guests an obnoxious psychic, surprising lovers, and an apparently genuine ghost. Fiction (DR, MN)

Moloney, Susie. The Dwelling.
A classic Victorian suburban house has seen a succession of owners, none of whom stay for long because the troubled house makes itself uncomfortable for them to live there, waiting for its true love, realtor Glenn Darnley, to realize that it loves her and that it is waiting for her to transform it into her home. Fiction (MN, DR, RM)

Novak, Karen. Five Mile House.
Attempting to make a new start after her release from a mental hospital, Leslie Stone and her family settle in a small New England town where she becomes obsessed with the story of a woman accused of an unsolved nineteenth-century murder. Fiction (MN, RM)

Plass, Adrian. Ghosts: The Story of a Reunion.
Mourning the death of his wife, David Herrick reluctantly accepts a reunion invitation by his former youth group members at a haunted house, at which the attendees share stories of lost faith, broken hearts, and compromised ideals. Fiction (MN, RM)

Sanders-Self, Melissa. All that Lives.
Murder and unspeakable evil follows the distinguished Bell family as they are plagued by violent and malevolent unseen forces, but an evil far greater than the Bell Witch lurks deep within the Bell home. Fiction (MN only)

Saul, John. The Unloved.
The crumbling Deveraux mansion, a once-proud plantation house, becomes the focus of a nightmarish evil, triggered by the visit of Kevin Deveraux, returning after twenty years, and the bizarre death of his hated, demanding mother. Fiction (MN, DR)

Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones.
The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened. Fiction (MN, DR, RM)

Siddons, Anne Rivers. The House Next Door.
The house next door to the Kennedys appears to be haunted by a mysterious, all-pervasive evil, and the couple watches in horror as a succession of owners becomes engulfed by the same sinister force, until the Kennedys set out to destroy the house themselves. Fiction (MN, DR, RM)

Simmons, Dan. A Winter Haunting.
Returning to the small Illinois town of his childhood to pick up the pieces of his shattered life, and regain his confidence as a writer, Professor Dale Stewart leases an empty farmhouse of a long-dead friend, who had been murdered in the summer of 1960, but instead of finding peace and quiet, he finds that the house is haunted. Fiction (MN, DR, RM)

Wilson, F. Paul. The Haunted Air: A Repairman Jack Novel.
In an adventure set against the backdrop of a Queens house haunted by the ghost of a nine-year-old girl, Repairman Jack becomes embroiled in a terrifying struggle in which the forces of evil threaten to engulf the world. Fiction (MN, DR, RM)

AMC, 7/03; Holdings checked 7/06 KRL