Believe: 13 Hauntings

by Elisabeth E Wathen

Overview

What lurks in the shadows under the bed? Is that groaning whisper really just the wind in the trees? What happens when the people we love die? 

In these 13 tales, the reader will meet nine boys, twelve girls, seven ghosts and six demons, each with their own mysterious, thought-provoking, and at times terrifying experiences. The perfect read for a dark and stormy night, these short stories transport the reader across time and continents. Whether set in a medieval Irish village on the longest night of the year, a contemporary American high school where a student reporter goes on a ghost hunt, or in a modern city where a would-be medium meets her first real ghost, each story holds a chilling encounter with the supernatural. Suspenseful, shivery, and sometimes heartbreaking, "Believe: 13 Hauntings" brings the reader face to face with otherworldly possibilities and mystical explanations for the things that go bump in the night. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798218255428
Publisher:	Elisabeth Wathen
Publication date:	09/29/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	174
Sales rank:	924,634
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

Table of Contents

Believe: 13 Hauntings-synopsis

1.    A Good Old-Fashioned Haunting. Tory's best friend Rob is obsessed with ghosts. She agrees to go to a local haunted house with him, hoping to prove to him once and for all that ghosts don't exist. 

2.    Bonfire. In medieval Ireland, young Aisling has to bring goods to her grandmother on the darkest night of the year. 

3.    The Hanging Tree. A desperate boy, orphaned and alone in mid 19^th century California, receives help from a curious gentleman. 

4.    Vampyre. An ambitious and imaginative high school journalist, in pursuit of stories that explain the many mysterious phenomena associated with her school, stumbles upon a murder plot. 

5.    The Spare Room. To help support her struggling family while her father and older brothers are off fighting in the war, young Prudence has gone into service at a great manor house. 

6.    Ghost Hunter. Joe stumbled into fame as an amateur YouTube ghost hunter, in the process becoming completely disillusioned and cynical about anything supernatural. 

7.    Séance. Five young girls having a sleepover at the end of the school year hold a séance, and receive a mysterious message. 

8.    Unbeliever. Told from the point of view of the ghost himself, this story follows a man who dies and can't move on. 

9.    The Sketch Artist. Lori is uprooted by her parents' divorce and her mother's job, dragged across the country from San Francisco to tiny Williamsburg, VA. She is bullied and ostracized, and her only refuge is an old graveyard where she goes every day, to draw. 

10. Waking the Dead. Daniel has to give up a fun weekend with friends to go to his great-great-great aunt's house, because she's dead. 

11. Woman in Brown. A slave woman sacrifices herself to get her daughter to freedom, and her ghost continues to help and protect descendants. 

12. The Last Farewell. Sam loves his dog, Frodo. Like the characters for which they are named, they are inseparable. Nothing can keep them apart-not even a fatal car accident.

13. The Western Woods. Luke and Caden have been best friends since kindergarten, but Caden has shamed Luke into taking a dare to prove he doesn't believe in his strange grandmother's ghost stories, and as a result both boys find themselves walking through the dark woods-where Luke's grandmother has forbidden him to go-on Halloween night.