Books with title The Haunted Mansion 2

The year is 1860. Charlotte lives with her parents in the shadow of their only possession, the Entwhistle Mansion, a huge building doomed to crumble and rot as it is overflowing with hundreds of ghosts, spirits and phantoms. Armed only with the book “The Scientific Analysis of Ghosts, Beasties and Bogles” by the renowned ghost hunter A.E.Cronin, Charlotte decides to rid the mansion of its occupants, so allowing her mother and father to sell the cursed building. But once inside she finds far more than just a few unfortunate spirits. With every room haunted, a mad scientist, a giant spider and a crazed monster stalking the corridors, Charlotte’s courage will be tested to breaking point. Yet aided by the strangest ghost hunting colleague ever, she just might have a chance of completing her mission and escaping the mansion with her life. Filled with thrills, scares and a fair amount of hot chocolate, are you brave enough to enter the Entwhistle Mansion?

Barbie is one of the top girls' properties - the world's #1 fashion doll. Now Scholastic is on the Barbie bandwagon with stories starring Barbie as a reporter with a nose for a mystery.Barbie has a brand-new job at the Willow Daily News. Her first assignment is to interview Mr. Willow, the grandson of the town's founder. But something very strange is going on at Mr. Willow's old mansion. A ghostly face keeps appearing at the window, and there are spooky whispers in the wind. Mr. Willow is so scared he's thinking of leaving.Is the house really haunted? Barbie is suspicious. Could someone be after the Willow fortune? It's up to Barbie and her friends to investigate.

Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past.He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw's phantom twin and is "an awful likeness of himself...with his features, and his bright eyes, and his grizzled hair, and dressed in the gloomy shadow of his dress..." This spectre appears and proposes to Redlaw that he can allow him to "forget the sorrow, wrong, and trouble you have known...to cancel their remembrance..." Redlaw is hesitant at first, but finally agrees.As a consequence of the ghost's intervention, Redlaw is without memories of the painful incidents from his past. He experiences a universal anger that he cannot explain. His bitterness spreads to the Swidgers, the Tetterbys and his student. All become as wrathful as Redlaw himself. The only one who is able to avoid the bitterness is Milly.With this realization, the novel concludes with everyone back to normal and Redlaw, like Ebenezer Scrooge, a changed, more loving man. Now a whole person, Redlaw learns to be humble at Christmas.

Nancy Finds Mischief, Mystery, and Danger -- All Under One Roof! Nancy, Bess, and George have joined the Drews' housekeeper, Hannah Gruen, on a trip to San Francisco. They have come at the invitation of Hannah's friend Rose Green, who has asked their help in renovating a charming old Victorian mansion. But there may be other, uninvited guests as well: visitors from the past...spirits who want the place all to themselves. Nancy suspects that there is another force at work -- greed. According to legend, a fortune in long-lost gold is hidden on the property, and someone is determined to take it. But in a house full of trapdoors and secret tunnels, falling glass and suspicious fires, finding the truth won't be easy. One misstep, and Nancy won't stand a ghost of a chance!

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Goosebumps Wanted: The Haunted Mask, two spookily linked Halloween stories- now in paperback! From horror master R.L. Stine come two new chilling stories in one spooky standalone: Lu-Ann Franklin usually loves Halloween. Not this year. Her best friend, Devin O'Bannon, is going away for the week. And she has to go to a boring party where nothing exciting could ever happen. But when Lu-Ann comes face-to-face with The Haunted Mask, major trouble lies ahead. Devin O'Bannon didn't want to leave his best friend Lu-Ann Franklin behind on Halloween. He didn't ask to go on this trip. And that was before he heard the strange scratching on his windows and saw the shadows moving around in the fields. Something is out there and it doesn't seem to want Devin around!