Books with title Dream House, The

A family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad in this Edgar Award–winning book from Virginia Hamilton.The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend—two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who had made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms…

The old, abandoned house at the end of Grace's street is a local legend. All the neighbors say it's haunted, but every Halloween someone leaves candy on the front porch. Grace and her friends decide to investigate, hoping to find out once and for all if someone—or something—really is haunting the place. But what if there is more to the house than there seems?

Delilah and Gavin’s new love is threatened by a force uncomfortably close to home in this haunting novel from New York Times bestselling duo Christina Lauren, authors of Beautiful Bastard.His shirt is black, jeans are black, and shaggy black hair falls into his eyes. And when Gavin looks up at Delilah, the dark eyes shadowed with bluish circles seem to flicker to life. He lives in that house, the one at the edge of town. Spooky and maybe haunted. Something worse than haunted. And Gavin is trapped by its secrets. Delilah and Gavin can’t resist each other. But staying together will exact a price beyond their imagining.

After growing up abroad, Miranda McDonald is eager to go to a real American high school. But back home in Kentucky, Miranda sees that her foreign upbringing has made her an outsider. The only comfort she finds is in the company of her horse, Drummer. Drummer is a champion in Miranda’s eyes only. But when another outsider, the handsome but reckless Gray Walker, says he believes in Drummer, Miranda is sure that together she and Gray can make Drummer a winner. Then as they train the horse, Miranda’s hesitant attraction to Gray turns into a passionate love. Will she risk her reputation to stay with the boy the whole town despises?

Lucas has dreamed for years of building himself a perfect house, and now he has found just the place to build it, on a tiny island. First he builds a kitchen, then a bedroom above. He is having such fun that he doesn't want to stop, but the island is quite small. All Lucas can do is build up, one room on top of another, until finally he has a wonderful tower-house. But something is missing. Lucas needs help from stormy winds and friendly children to transform his tower-house into the home of his dreams.

“I will be the one to break you, to remake you,” the iron-masked scientist tells Charlie while he’s held captive in the seventh chamber. In the last book of the, Final Form series, Charlie is struck by horrific dreams and visions of the 7 House. Iron-masked scientists attempt to force him to transform into something unknown by applying something they call, Deliverables. Meanwhile, thanks to a rag-tag group of street kids, Charlie survives his plunge into the freezing ocean. Samantha and Luca, however, are nowhere to be found and as his father’s terrors over the city grow more and more deadly his chances of seeing them alive again become slimmer by the minute. When everyone around Charlie starts to turn into zombies, he seeks shelter in a safe haven known only as the Domain Underground. As Charlie fights with the Domain Underground rebels against his father’s evil creation of clones, he gets closer and closer to uncovering the truth of the 7 House and the answers to what his Final Form will be. Soon, Charlie discovers a whole new layer to his father’s twisted plans. A final war is brewing between Charlie and all the rebels, against his father’s wicked army. Charlie must make the ultimate sacrifice to save his new species and the human race.

The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft’s fictional New England town. The house once harbored Keziah Mason, an witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.

Avner Gold's expanded edition of The Dream is the hair-raising sequel to The Promised Child. After years of captivity in a monastery, Shloime Strasbourg finally returns to his family and his people. But will he ever take his rightful place in the illustrious Strasbourg rabbinic lineage? Or will it come to an end with him? While studying intensely in the seclusion of remote Wielkowicz, he has a terrifying dream that warns of looming peril to his mother back in Pulichev. On his journey home, he befriends Elisha Ringel, a wandering adventurer. The two men travel together to Pulichev, where they find that the Rebbetzin has contracted a mysterious illness that is slowly killing her. Will they identify the cause of the illness in time to save her life? Meanwhile, they must also contend with the local priest who is inciting the people against the Jewish population and a blacksmith who has appointed himself the ringleader. Escalating tensions threaten a pogrom. Danger lurks at every corner. The Dream is a suspenseful story of hatred, revenge and a desperate race against time to avert the dual disasters looming over the Jewish community of Pulichev. It is a story of ingenuity, resourcefulness, courage and faith in the battle of good against evil. The expanded edition also features a set of new chapters about a tragic period in the life of Rav Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, author of Tosefos Yom Tov, while he was the rav of Prague. It tells the story of his betrayal by members of his own congregation, his imprisonment, the imperial decree of execution and his ultimate delivery from death. These historical events are drawn from Rav Yom Tov's Megillas Eivah. The reader should not be surprised to discover that one of the fictional Strasbourg characters offered invaluable assistance.