Books with title The Haunting of Hiram

Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits...Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, and occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own...

Eight-year-old Barney is willing to accept that the ghost of his Great-Uncle Cole might wish to be friends with him, but his family are sceptical. However, some of his older relations admit that there does seem to be something special about the boy. Barney's sister, practical Tabitha, determines to solve the mystery - but it is Troy, the oldest of the children, who finds out what the truth really is....

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre. Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits… Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own.

Sam wants to live a quiet life in the country with his wife and young son, but Farnham House has a grisly history and its spirits have other ideas. Once an inn, this majestic old New England manor house is back on the market, and the price is very reasonable. Little does Sam know that he will soon begin a long, slow descent into madness and that he will spend his summer living with dead things.

Katelyn lay in her bed trying to go to sleep. She had drawn the bed curtains around, and pulled the covers up to her face. Occasionally the room would light up from the distant storm and she would hear the low rumble seconds later. The sound of rain struck softly against the windows. She drifted in and out of sleep as she heard the clock strike the quarter hour, directing her hearing downstairs. Then she heard something more disturbing. It made her mad. The door knob on her closet began to move with a click, click, click, followed by the long slow creek of old rusty hinges. …..She felt something tug on her foot and then giggle in a high pitched demented little voice. Katelyn jammed the covers into her mouth, trying desperately not to scream. So begins the adventure of three unusual kids: Katelyn, her brother Joey and their neighbor, Taylor. The downturn in the economy had caused their father, Horace Wolfe, to lose his job. In desperation, the Wolfe family had little choice but to sell their home and move in with their Great Aunt Gertrude, into a house Katelyn referred to as disturbing. She had confided to her brother that it was “disquieting,” but that wasn’t the worst of it. The small community of Ong’s Hat had a terrible secret buried in its history, one which began with the arrival of its first inhabitants. Sacrifices and deals were made to appease restless spirits. But whatever dwelt in the Pine Barrens was more than alive, and it would make itself known among the living and the dead.