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[[Category:Paranormal|*]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Syd MooreDean Koontz|title= Strange Magic: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (Essex Witches Mystery 1)|rating= 5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run. Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There's the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. And there's curator Sam Stone, a man about whom Rosie can't decide if he's tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need to be delayed, just for a while. Finding herself and Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where to her horror, the secrets of the past come with their own real, and all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelop them all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070987</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Federico Axat|title= Kill the Next One|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico Axat's ''Kill the Next One'', you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where a middle-aged man with a mysterious past is forced to shoot or blunder his way through a by-the-numbers thriller. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around the edges of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed to his temple. He has the perfect life, including a beautiful wife and two adoring children, but has discovered that he is also in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing him. However, right before he decides to take the shot and end his life, there is a knock on his door. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents an all-knowing organisation that turns would-be suicides into opportunities to correct the imbalances of the law. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kelley Armstrong|title= Otherworld Chills|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= I came to Armstrong's ''Otherworld'' quite late in its development and it seems that she's now wrapping it up to move on to other things. Billed as the 'final collection' of stories ''Chills'' allegedly completes several storylines of her best loved characters. I'd disagree. If Sherlock can survive Reichenbach then I'm sure Werewolves, Vampires and demi-demotic Angels can survive whatever state they may have been left in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500683</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kelley Armstrong|title= Betrayals|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Liv Taylor-Jones has come a long way since she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killers. But while she's coming to an understanding about her fae heritage, the strange visions that are a part of that, she's not yet ready to make the choice that destiny would have her make.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= V H Leslie|title= Bodies of Water|rating= 3.5|genre= Paranormal|summary= Bodies of Water is a concise novella featuring a dual narrative from the perspectives of Kirsten, a modern day woman on the mend from a broken heart, and Evelyn, a nineteenth century 'guest' of a water treatment centre for ailing women. Kirsten moves into the old Wakewater House, attempting to heal herself with the proximity of the water. Centuries ago, Evelyn was forced by her father to visit that same house in order to restore her old vigour, but the water cannot drown out the ghost that haunts her. In fact, the water itself is a powerful and supernatural force. As the water encroaches upon both of their lives, Kirsten and Evelyn search to unveil the mysteries of the house as well as the drenched dark-haired figure who appears before them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630713</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christine Feehan|title= Shadow Rider|rating= 4|genre=Paranormal|summary=Stefano Ferraro is the head of Italian family-run mega business. From hotels to racing cars, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many pies, and not all of them are legal. Splashed across the gossip columns of every newspaper and magazine in America the 4 brothers and their sister are a group of gorgeous beings to be reckoned with. The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them to travel, unseen, through the shadows; a power which they use to serve justice when the legal system fails, allowing them to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=G S Denning|title=Warlock Holmes: A Study in BrimstoneBad Weather Friend

|summary=A wise fictional character once said Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that when you have excluded whoever or whatever was inside is the impossiblething that has trashed his house! The thing is, whatever remains, however improbable, must be Benny is the truthvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. With this in mind – what He is Sherlock Holmes? a nice person. A genius eccentric whose mind works on really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a different plainbad weather friend called Spike, or perhaps the more obvious option who has been sent to help him since Benny is that he was clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a Warlock? good person. Surely his ability to see what others cannot Spike is more likely going to be through magictake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, rather than intellect?Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299711</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryAlly Wilkes|title=Book of LiesAll the White Spaces|rating=3.54|genre=ParanormalHorror|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book of Lies'' has all the usual themes -In post- confused sense of identityWWI England, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the supernaturalfamous Australis Randall. The story starts when identical twin girls (For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the charmingly named Piper opportunity to live life as his authentic self and Quinn) are reunited as teenagerstrue gender, having been separated at birthwithout the disapproval and constraints of his parents. We follow their journey as they discover each other However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and reveal the complexities shadow of their shared familythe war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, their terrifying dreams mistrust and grief stalk the party and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there when disaster strikes and they are hints forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of witchcraftthe Arctic winter alive, hounds of death he will have to face his demons once and family cursesfor all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>1789097835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie HannahT L Huchu|title=The Visitors BookLibrary of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=ParanormalTeens|summary= Sophie Hannah's The Visitors Book Ropa Moyo is a short anthology ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of modern stories with a supernatural twistScottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. There is Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not a hammy gothic turret in sight as only herself, but her younger sister and her characters experience their mundaneaging grandmother. However, day-to-daythere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, 21st century business -- a childrentargeting the city's birthday partychildren. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a visit to a boyfriend, neck pain, missing boy at the school runrequest of his dead mother. Now, ghost stories based on ordinary people leading ordinary lives can be very unsettling indeed, making overly imaginative readers look over their shoulder at She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the bus stop, or giving them goosebumps for no apparent reasonworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. So I was curious Will she find the missing children and bring an end to see what Sophie Hannahthis evil, a writer I much admire, would make of this particular material.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908745525</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongHolly Rivers|title=DeceptionsDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating=4.5|genre=ParanormalConfident Readers|summary=Liv Demelza Clock is starting a scientist, often staying up late to understand the Fae world that has existed in secretwork on her various gadgets, and much to her place within itGrandma Maeve's irritation. But the more However, she understandshas also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the less she likes itability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Visions Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, there is a girl torn between two men continue mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up to plague Demelza and her – visions that are starting best friend Percy to feel alarmingly similar get to her real life relationships with Gabriel and Rickythe bottom of this...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847445136</amazonuk>1912626039

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert Brockway1473669065|title= The UnnoticeablesQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan|rating= 3.5|genre= ParanormalHumour|summary= Carey is a punk living in New York CityTilda returns to Brighton, 1977to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Sick of watching his friends be abducted and killedWhilst there, he doesn’t care about the rumours of strange monsters and supernatural happenings – all he wants she returns to do is drink beer and kick ass. In the present dayParadise hotel, Kaitlyn is in Hollywooda haven for eccentrics and misfits. A stuntwomanplace where people can be themselves, she has and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a missing best friendchild, has just escaped an attempt on her life, and an angel is waiting outside her doorfrom this place of wonder. The survival of With the human race lies in the hands help of Carey Queenie Malone, caring, and Kaitlyn. We aregregarious, all of us, well Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and truly screwed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297972</amazonuk>distant mother.

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Accident Season|author=Moira Fowley-Doyle|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=For a month in every year, the month leading up to Halloween, Cara's family are susceptible to accidents. There are cuts and scrapes and bruises. Sometimes there are broken bones. And sometimes, the accidents are even fatal... ... it's a curse, right? What else could it be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Megan Mirandawilliamabbey|title=Soulprint|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprinting. Scientific advances have enabled the tracking The Pursuit of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluid. Reincarnation is now an established fact and the government maintains a database of all past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods to the person in whom their soul is reincarnated. But the discovery has led to problems and the problems have led to Alina's ''containment''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWilliam Abbey|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=Otherworld Nights|rating=4|genre=Paranormal|summary=Kelley Armstrong revisits her hugely popular 'Otherworld' series in this collection of short stories, featuring many of the prominent characters from the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356500667</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danny Weston|title=The PiperClaire North

|summary=The NaremoresWhen William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, a family with a troubled pasthe finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, leave London in search he slowly learns the weight of peace in the quiet Somerset countryside. Finding curse upon him, as the shadow of the perfect home – 'The Hollow' – appears dead boy begins to symbolise a turning point and follow him across the end of all their problemsworld. The Hollow seems possessed Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of a healing magic which can restore health and relationships as well as hopes and dreamsWilliam. UnfortunatelyAs he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the positive power of the Hollow dark shadow is suddenly challenged deadly – and seeks to kill the family are plunged into horrors that perhaps they should have foreseen…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781165580</amazonuk>one he loves the most…

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Green Door|author=Christopher Bowden|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Clare Mallory is a promising junior barrister working from a prestigious chambers. Life is pretty good. She's not the type to be taken in by psychics but when cards advertising the services of one Madame Pavonia start arriving in the post, her interest is piqued, first by the rainbow spectrum pattern and then by... well, something else. Tempted to visit the fortune-teller at a local fair, Clare is taken aback at Madame Pavonia's reaction to her and rushes out of the tent. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955506735</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTudor Chalk|title=Printer's Devil CourtThe Chalk Man|author=Susan HillC J Tudor

|summary=Susan Hill is ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by far an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the master of time the old fashioned ghost storynew term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. If you've But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever read tighter, or seen [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]]someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, then you’ll already know Ed has tried to forget about thatsummer, but her other ghost stories are a little less famousabout all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. That doesn’t make them any less goodHowever, someone seems determined not to let him and I for one am a big fan. I think there’s a lot when the letters start to be said for a good old fashioned scarearrive, with apparitionsthe past follows, goosebumps plaguing him and cold chills dredging up the spinefever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. I always feel like I should be reading these books around a campfireDriven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, wrapped in a blanket and eating marshmallows because it very much reminds me of sharing ghost stories with my friends when I was a child. What I like to call a ‘proper scare’.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125365X</amazonuk>will he ever let Ed go?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jester_Forever|title=Help for the HauntedForever After: a dark comedy|author=John SearlesDavid Jester|rating=34|genre=General FictionHorror|summary=Rose Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and Sylvester Mason make their living from helping gets made the hauntedoffer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, performing exorcisms a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and running seminars across America on Naff (a stoner in the subject of the paranormal. When records department) as they are murdered in a church, grapple with their daughters, Rose long lives and Sylvi, are left negotiating the complex legacy finding a clean surface to sit on in their work has left behindflat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751555908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785032461|title=FirelightThe Girl at the Window|author=Kristen CallihanRowan Coleman|rating=3.5

|summary=Lord Benjamin Archer Trudy Heaton is going home, to a man feared throughout London. Dark house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and brooding, he hides behind to a mask, scared of revealing the disfigurement that has had him searching across the world mother she hasn't spoken to for a curesixteen years. Seeking companionship Home, her refuge, he weds Miranda EllisPonden Hall, a young woman from a family reduced where she can heal herself and try to come to povertyterms with the traumatic loss of her husband. As Miranda and Benjamin come She needs to know build bridges with her mother and love each other, secrets are revealed convince her grieving son that could destroy not just his father is dead. Where better than the relationshiphouse full of light and shadow, but both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349405999</amazonuk>that nurtured her throughout her childhood?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1471407764|title=VisionsThe Twisted Tree|author=Kelley ArmstrongRachel Burge

|summary=Olivia Jones, daughter of serial killers, Martha's world has successfully proved her parents innocent of changed. Blind in one murdereye after falling from a tree, she wakes with a disturbing gift. With that seed of doubt plantedShe can read people through their clothes, secrets tumble from the weave, revealing insights she doesn't really want, and knowledge shedoesn's out to prove them innocent of the restt understand. She knows the people of mysterious little town Cainsville know more than they are saying, but trying flees to get them to talk about anything - from her parents to Oliviagrandmother, Mormor's strange ability to read omens - cabin, seeking answers no one is like trying prepared to get get blood from a stonegive, and stumbles into world of menace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445128</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1492687863|title=Better Homes Bellewether |author=Susanna Kearsley|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Flitting between the present day and mid-16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and Hauntingstheir story; a tale that ends in a tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473203287|title=Summerland |author=Molly HarperHannu Rajaniemi

|summary=When Nina Linden arrives on Deacon Whitney's private island, it's Imagine a chance for her world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to escape . After the difficulties discovery of her past the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and start rebuilding her failing landscaping businessdealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. If she can do a good job hereWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, it will open all sorts of doors to becomes suspicious about the upper class marketspotential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and on a private island, surely her horrible ex can't find ways how much she is willing to risk to sabotage her, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KASKUF2</amazonuk>uncover the truth.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472235878|title=Dead But Not ForgottenA Gathering of Ghosts|author=Charlaine Harris and Toni LP Kelner (Editors)Karen Maitland|rating=3.5|genre=AnthologiesParanormal|summary=''Dead But Not Forgotten'' returns to Sookie Stackhouse's worldWitchcraft, exploring the lives supernatural and misadventures of some of the more minor characters will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the seriesdarker side of human nature. The collection features stories about Pam Ravenscroftland is unhappy, Adele Hale Stackhouse, Luna, Diantha, Bubba the old spirits want revenge and many famine is kindling a resurgence of the other colourful characters from Bon Temps and the wider universe of Sookie's storyold faith. As fear rises, written by authors such as Seanan McGuire, Rachel Caine, Nicole Peelerit is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, Christopher Golden its healing waters run red with blood and many morestrangers are blowing in on a wind of change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Nicholls1472234782|title=Shadow GirlThe Story Keeper|author=Anna Mazzola

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyParanormal|summary=One Audrey, a complex mix of the disadvantages flights of the foster care system is that some children get moved around rather a lot fancy and usually it's not down seriousness, wanting, needing, to them. But because be more than what everyone expects of this it's easy to see making friends as being a wasted effort and this was certainly Clare's opinion. By her, escapes from the age straightjacket of fourteen she was at her third secondary school - and after being there for two months she hated ithome. Everyone else had been there for years and they all had friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her being evicted from father, who only once in his life threw caution to the school bus wind and then getting lost as she tried to find her married way homebeneath him for love. The good thing was that she met MaddyNow a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0751571229|title=GoddessWhen The Curtain Falls|author=Laura PowellCarrie Hope Fletcher|rating=45|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=After an economic collapseA thoroughly, Britain is close to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry magical and riveting story that hooks you in from the first page and there are riotstakes you on a roller coaster ride towards the last. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as Fletcher weaves together a handmaiden in dash of ''Whodunit'' the thrill of romance, (the Cult course of Artemiswhich never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghost. In this Britain The ghost appears once a year, the beliefs principal star of her very own show, to meet with the Ancient Greeks persevere love of her life and are followed by millions re- the cult sits side by side enact her death. A tragic accident with Christianity as a mainstream religion. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over roots buried deep within the position whole array of head priestess when Opis retireshuman nature. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Libriomancer|author=Jim C Hines|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Pulp fantasy may be frowned upon by some who believe that novels should be about emotionsLove, joy, inner journeys and despair. Fantasy and science fiction can have all these things as wellcare, but they can also be funfriendship, entertaining and laser pistols. ‘Libriomancer’ by Jim C Hines is a great example. It is a book that follows Isaac Vainiojealousy, a Libriomancer who has the power to draw magic from books. He must use this gift to good effect when one daypossessiveness, whilst sitting comfortably cataloguingselfishness, he is attacked by three vampires. Does that sound fun to you? If socold ambition, read all laid bare on; if not, this may not be the book for youcentre stage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953456</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Half BadAaronovitvch_Furthest|authortitle=Sally Green|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Before I start, I'll declare an uninterest. I'm not really into the paranormal genre, and I'm definitely not into paranormal romances. I like fantasy and I've nothing against the supernatural. It's just the predictability of the paranormal genre that puts me off. I prefer books that surprise me rather than books that comfort me by giving me what I expect. So, you realise, I'm coming at ''Half Bad'' from the perspective of an ''un''-fan. And I loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141350865</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Furthest Station|author=Megan Miranda|title=VengeanceBen Aaronovitch

|summary=It's here at last – the novel When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the script Metropolitan Line, for example - they call for PC Peter Grant of the sequel to the film of the book – that was always better Special Assessment Unit, also known as a stage-playThe Folly. I'll maintain as long as you like that the play is the best way to witness [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill]]Stray river gods, purely for the added extra of the final frisson – that you'll be carrying the story with you when you leave. Making sequels to the filmmissing Victorian children, what with its departures from the sourcefleeting 18th century dispatch riders, certainly donthey are all in a day't marry up with that – instead of the ghost going away into the audience its (or a night's instead as ) work for The Folly team, even if the new characters are compelled into her domain – team only has two official members and the filing system dates back 2 centuries. He may spend time pursuing supernatural offenders, but either way, Constable Grant is a nicely wry and recognisable copper; health and safety rules annoy him and he is inclined to trust his hunches and park outside Chinese take-aways in the dread inevitability hope of all the best ghost stories are on these pagesa free meal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099588498</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Tales from the Dead of Night: Thirteen Classic Ghost StoriesMoore_Strange|authortitle=Cecily Gayford Strange Sight: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery (editorEssex Witches Mystery 2)|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=This collection of classic ghost stories covers all kinds of chilling tales. There are physical ghosts, emotional ghosts, ghosts that are never seen but merely sensed, and even the odd entity that just seems ghostly, even though it might be an ordinary everyday thing - but still makes you feel as if you’ve, well, seen a ghost. Each story is preceded with some information on the author. The stories are from are from several different periods and the settings range from winter nights in England to sultry summers in India. This combines to make for an excellent overview of all kinds of spooky sagas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250944</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Coldest Girl in Coldtown|author=Holly Black|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future, vampires exist, and everyone knows it. To try and deal with the problem of vampirism, cities have been given to the monsters and designated Coldtowns – walled cities where people can enter, but hardly ever leave. With these cities broadcast on TV 24 hours a day, they look glamorous – but those just watching can’t see the deadliness behind the glitz. Seventeen-year-old Tana is about to find out. Along with her ex-boyfriend Aiden, who’s just been infected by a vampire and has to go without drinking blood for eighty eight days or turn into one himself, and a mysterious vampire named Gavriel, she’s headed for the largest Coldtown of them all. Can they get there – and if they do, will any of them survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621299</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Antigoddess|author=Kendare BlakeSyd Moore|rating=3.5

|summary=Athena and Rosie Strange is back - recovering after her brother Hermes are a lot less godlike than they used to be. In factlast escapade with curator Sam Stone, they are dying. Athena is being slowly suffocated by feathers growing inside her and Hermes's body is eating itself. Literally. They are on a road trip to find figuring out exactly what it is killing the gods and on earth to save themselves if they can. No matter do with the cost to themselves or others. Gods don't count costs. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833075X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Memory: SheEssex Witch Museum she's Dying to Remember|author=Christoph Marzi|rating=4recently inherited.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jude can see the dead. His life has changed immeasurably since he saw his first ghost about six months ago. He's lost interest at school and become even further distanced from his father, who works away a lot. Instead, he spends most of his time in Highgate Cemetery with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone and a circle of dead people headed by ex-rock star Gaskell. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does with the living. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Hold Your Breath|author=Caroline Green|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keys, phones, and even people. But she knows that this strange ability can bring trouble, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missing, she wants to keep If Rosie had her visions to herself. The images way she sees won't go away, though - should she risk humiliation, or worse, by trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Weight of Souls|author=Bryony Pearce|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Taylor Oh has inherited a curse from her mother. Fated to help ghosts of murder victims get revenge, or d be taken by selling the Darkness herself, she lives museum and heading back to her life flat in fear of being consumed. It's bad enough trying not to alienate her only friend, and persuade her father that she's not insane London - but when school bully Justin gets murdered, she's left trying to solve the crime her Auntie Babs recommends Rosie and also cope with the realisation she's becoming attracted Sam to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniela Sacerdoti|title=Tide|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After her parents' deaths at the hands of the demons a local businessman, they fought against, Sarah Midnight was left reeling find themselves embroiled in dark events once again by the revelation towards the end of book 1 that her 'cousin' Harry Midnight was actually Harry's friend Sean Hannay. Unable to trust Sean following his lies, Sarah turns to Nicholas, new on the scene. But Nicholas has dark secrets of his own - has Sarah placed her faith in the Something is wrong person? And will she find out the truth about the Midnight legacy before the demons attack again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025393</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kim Harrington|title=Perception|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After solving a murder over the summer, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds herself the centre of attention at school. Mostly it's annoyingLe Fleur Restaurant - blood leaking from chandeliers, but harmless - popular girls wanting her to use her unique gift for show and entertainment - but someone is sending her increasingly creepy scrawled messages, in the rooms and Clare keeps getting apparitions walking through the feeling she's being followedwalls.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kai Meyer|title=Arcadia Burns|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you haven't read the [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] in this seriesBefore Rosie and Sam can start to look into these possibly supernatural occurrences though, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! There will be spoilers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Yelena Black|title=Dance of Shadows|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Vanessa events take an even darker turn when a very real body is just one of many new students at found in the New York Ballet Academy restaurant - but while they're all trying to become and the best dancer, she has her own reasons for being there. Three years ago her older sister disappeared from the school, and sheowner's determined daughter swears that a ghost was to find out what happened to Margaretblame... Can she find out? And will the two boys taking an interest in her, charismatic Zeppelin and incredibly intense Justin, help or hinder her search?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408829975</amazonuk>