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The Unexplained: Ghosts by Adam Allsuch Boardman

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 22 Aug 2025

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“This book will be an absolute joy to read or browse and students looking for solid information will love it, either as a recreational read or as a starting point for research.” Youth Services Book Reviews

Whether it’s shadowy figures in dark hallways, objects that move on their own or unexplained chills in an abandoned place, ghosts have fascinated people for centuries. A bump in the night, the creak of floorboards and the uneasy coldness of a room has kept investigators and mediums asking one big question. Are ghosts real?

Explore the mysteries of ghosts in this graphic guide and decide for yourself – is there anything hiding in the dark?

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Spooked: The Theatre Ghosts – Spooked 1 by Steven Butler ill. Claire Powell

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Welcome to Cod’s Bottom – the sleepy seaside town with a secret! Meet an unusual cast of ghosts in a laugh-out-loud new middle-grade series by the bestselling author of The Nothing to See Here Hotel.

There’s nothing out of the ordinary about ten-year-old Ella Griffin. Nothing at all — until she’s forced to move to the seaside town of Cod’s Bottom and everything changes. In search of adventure, Ella stumbles into an old abandoned theatre, but all is not as it seems. Because the theatre isn’t empty, it’s haunted by weird and wonderful ghosts, and they need her help to save them!

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Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood

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A British traveller in France stops in a remote French hill town with some very unusual inhabitants and soon finds himself unable to leave; a scholar staying in a lodging house feels himself observed by a malevolent presence; two friends on a canoeing trip spend a night on a lonely willow-covered island in the middle of the Danube, haunted by the strange trees and sinister shapes in the water…

Algernon Henry Blackwood was an English  novelist and short story writer, and one of the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. This collection contains four of his most unnervingly curious tales: ‘Ancient Sorceries’, ‘The Listener’, ‘The Sea Fit’ and ‘The Willows’.

Yuki-Onna and Other Stories – Arcturus Classics by Lafcadio Hearn

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ACHUKA Book of the Day 16 Feb 2022

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Haunting, mysterious and beautiful, but also possessed of unimaginable power and the capacity for terrifying cruelty, the ghosts of Lafcadio Hearn’s fiction draw their inspiration from the folklore of ancient Japan. These ghoulish beings range from spectral brides to vengeful phantoms and unruly goblins.

This collection includes such  tales as “Ingwa-Banashi”, “The Corpse-Rider” and “Of a Promise Broken”.

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was born in the Ionian Islands in Greece. As a child he moved first to Ireland and then to the United States where he worked as a journalist. Increasingly disenchanted with western society, he moved to Japan, where he married. There too he became disenchanted and complained about the loss of Japanese culture after the Meiji Restoration. He spent his life attempting to document the culture he loved in both fiction and carefully researched non-fiction studies.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classics series brings together high-quality paperback editions of classics works, presented with contemporary graphic cover designs. Together they make a  collection which is perfect for any home library.

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We Played With Fire by Catherine Barter

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“A truly exciting work of historical fiction” BfK 5 STAR review
“Barter’s second novel is atmospheric, genuinely unsettling and laced with acute political and feminist observation.” GUARDIAN

Maggie has witnessed impossible things. But no one believes her, and now her family has taken her away to spend the winter upstate in a remote, freezing farmhouse. Bored and angry, Maggie and her younger sister Kate start to play tricks: rapping on the floorboards above their parents’ bedroom, cracking their toes under the table, and telling tales about noises in the night. Then the house starts to make sounds of its own. Neither Maggie nor Kate can explain it, but it seems as though someone – or something – is trying to speak to them . . .

Inspired by the incredible true tale of the Fox Sisters, the girls who made their fortune in nineteenth-century America by speaking to ghosts.
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