A teeny-tiny woman finds a teeny-tiny bone in a graveyard and takes it home to make soup, but changes her mind during the night.

"From haunted ranches to epic maritime legends of the 19th century, ... stories of our world's oldest hauntings and unexplainable phenomena in hair-raising accounts of the afterlife."--Provided by publisher.

A boy who used to have a cat believes that its ghost is darting through his house by day and purring in his bed at night.

Will and Marty Woodman laugh when they hear the legend of how the sea glows when pirate Augustine Crow is looking for a cabin boy, until one night they are forced to take a shortcut across the beach.

Mr. Wilkerson, lover of pie, returns as a ghost on Halloween to demand some good pie from Jack and his grandmother.

Corazon Lopez looks forward to her eleventh birthday, when she can finally be trained in wielding babaylan magic and use it to bring her parents back to life.

Locked in the science closet after hours by the cool girls who have rejected her, Riley escapes to discover that all the school doors are locked, the phones are dead, and the lights aren't working, and as she roams through the building seeking a way out,she starts to suspect that she isn't alone.

When trick-or-treaters let their imaginations run wild, ordinary backyard items seem spooky, so that a mud puddle looks like a swamp and tree branches look like skeletons.

One October night in 1745, John Leep, a mean and stingy lawyer, sets out to evict a widow from one of his rental houses and is followed by a ghostly rider.

A basic introduction to psychical elements from the Greek oracles to modern-day poltergeists, including mediums, seances, and other strange phenomena.