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2) Sinister
Language
English
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Ten years ago, true crime writer Ellison Oswald made his reputation with a best-selling account of a notorious murder. Now, desperate to replicate the success of his first book, he moves his family into a home where the previous occupants were brutally executed and a child disappeared, hoping to find inspiration in the crime scene. In the home, Ellison discovers a cache of terrifying home movies, unwittingly opening the door into a nightmarish mystery....
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
What do a spooky sea serpent, buried treasure; Paul Revere's ghost and the Harlem Globetrotters have in common? They are all in the same scary boat in The Loch Ness Mess. In Scooby A la Mode, the gang visits France for the 200th birthday of Academie of Versailles, and winds up in the middle of a Parisian pastry puzzle. Then, a trip to Transylvania finds the crew babysitting for the new residents of Frankenstein Castle, the Draculas.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
A quiet loner finds himself stranded in a remote town when his car breaks down. Unable to pay for the repairs he needs, he agrees to spend the night cleaning Willy's Wonderland, an abandoned family fun center. But this wonderland has a dark secret that the Janitor is about to discover. He soon finds himself trapped inside Willy's and locked in an epic battle with the possessed animatronic mascots that roam the halls. To survive, he must fight his...
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Move over Miss Marple, there's a smart, stylish new detective in town - meet Miss Willoughby! Orphaned as a child, raised by a family friend (Kelsey Grammer), and skilled in strategy, literature, and martial arts, there's no case she can't solve. But even she is baffled when a longtime friend tells her that a ghost is haunting the bookstore she runs. Is someone playing a trick on the poor woman? Is it a hallucination? Or is something more sinister...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[English/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
The story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants, a mother, son, and daughter, are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely the family's story is...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to begin a new life in a North Carolina farmhouse, Shelby and Matt Miller flee Los Angeles only to find murder, mayhem and madness.
Series information: An anthology series that centers on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an insane asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, an enigmatic hotel and a sinister farmhouse in Roanoke, North Carolina.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees--Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy)--are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England's most haunted hotels. As the Inn's final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage "ghost hunters" begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be...
9) Crimson Peak
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay; a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth.
11) Rebecca
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After the death of his wife, Carson Drew decides to leave Chicago behind and make a fresh start with his daughter in River Heights. But for sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew, life in a small town is mighty dull. She longs for excitement, adventure, and the chance to make a difference. Nancy gets that opportunity when she is asked to help solve the ghostly activity at the Twin Elms mansion. Can she help explain the creaking footsteps, exploding lightbulbs,...
16) Eloise
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate that will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories.
18) The housemaid
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Vietnam, 1953: Linh, a poor, orphaned young woman, finds employment as a house cleaner in a crumbling plantation presided over by the emotionally fragile French officer Sebastien Laurent. Soon, a torrid love affair develops between the two, a taboo romance that rouses the ghost of Laurent's dead wife, who won't rest until blood flows. Submerged in moody Gothic atmosphere, this stylish supernatural saga confronts the dark shadows of Vietnam's colonial...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A group of friends run a popular YouTube channel exploring abandoned and haunted properties. Often encountering scary activities and ghostly apparitions or so it would seem. They get an opportunity to explore a large, disused mental hospital trying to discover evidence of the afterlife. When they arrive, things start off normal, but they soon discover something evil that won't let them leave.
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