Ghost Humor

New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here, he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a delightful humorous collection of short tales relating encounters with ghosts, including "The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa", "The Exorcism That Failed", and more.

Will her quest to save the future damn it instead? Rosalie races to unravel the events that led demons to invade and change her present, sending it spiraling toward a dystopian nightmare. But she has no idea how little time is left. With help, she leaves the last bastion of humankind under Ran’s protection and and heads back to in time to search for where the demon invasion began and how they reached earth, so she can stop them once and for all. But she found a mad ex-goddess instead who wants to destroy all of time for everyone everywhere. Rosalie must find a way to stop her. But how can...

HD Schenk is a maker—an inventor, someone who builds cool stuff. He's got a plan for the summer: He'll build his own computer and enter it in the county fair. Then everyone will know who he is and what he can do. To earn enough money for the parts he'll need, HD has promised to clear out his uncle's overflowing basement. No big deal, right? But there's more in that basement than HD bargained for. On his first trip down there, a voice only he can hear starts talking to him. About...sauerkraut?

Bei Freddy und Flo ist es immer aufregend – denn sie wohnen in einem Spukhaus! Mit einer Hexe, einem Vampir und einem Werwolf. Jetzt läuten die Hochzeitsglocken: Vampir Vigor und Elfe Bettina wollen heiraten! Doch dann wird der Vampir verhaftet. Angeblich hat er ein magisches Amulett gestohlen. Ein Amulett, das einen Vampir in einen Menschen verwandeln kann! Ist Vigor wirklich ein Dieb? Freddy und Flo wollen es nicht glauben und ermitteln ... Maria Kling und Marc-Uwe Kling sind zurück – mit einem neuen komisch- gruftigen Krimihörbuch um die Geschwister Freddy und Flo.

A vampire and a ghost being friends is unheard of. It makes no sense. The two factions have despised one another for all eternity. But...Leo the vampire and Minna the ghost have battled together side-by-side, they're sisters-in-arms, they're best friends, and they'll have to work together to vanquish a deadly new threat. Summoned to the Ghostly Realm for the murder of the Orphanmaster, Leo must complete three tasks to prove herself worthy of her unlife, each more treacherous than the last. C

Many moons ago, a new paper company named Dunder Mifflin opens in Scranton. On Halloween, just before midnight, one of its founders, the cringey yet lovable Ichabod Dunder, leaves on a sales call and never returns. The next morning, a Dunder Mifflin box is returned to the office. Inside is Ichabod Dunder’s head. So goes the legend of Headless Salesman, the lost soul who haunts Scranton every October 31st, a chilling whisper of that’s what she said jokes echoing down the streets. This Halloween, the ghost returns to hallowed ground.

'Get me some ghosts,' said Fulton Snodde-Brittle. 'Frightful and dangerous ghosts!' Fulton has gone to the Dial a Ghost agency with an evil plan. He wants to hire some truly terrifying ghosts to scare his nephew Oliver to death. The Shriekers are the most violent and sickening spectres the agency has, but a mix-up means the kind Wilkinson ghosts are sent in their place. Now Oliver has some spooky allies to help him outwit the wicked Snodde-Brittles . .

Harvey Boyd is a small-town radio newsman who thinks the biggest story of his career is the murder trial of Angel Whaley, accused of offing her husband - rising country star Jared Whaley - in his dressing room before a show at a local nightclub. He has no idea. Following a field trip to the station by a group of sixth-graders, Harvey finds a suspicious document uploaded to his laptop. It had to have been put there by that quiet kid who'd slipped away from the tour and been caught at the computer....

She never found love in life…Is it possible she’ll find love after death? Something unexpected happens to Cindy Thomas during a mystery weekend at the Ferris Mansion. One second she’s enjoying a performance with astonishing special effects. The next, she’s dead, surrounded by a troupe of long dead actors who aren’t special effects at all. Harvey, her dream guy, is no longer a dream. He’s real—a real ghost. Suddenly, this new existence is complicated and scary and amazing, leaving her wondering if she’s made the worst mistake of her life, her death, or whatever you want to ...

Ghost hunters, an exorcism, and a ghostly grey tabby Mad River welcomes a pair of ghost hunters and their television show to town only for a murder to occur as the cameras were rolling. Now Shelby's ghost friends are being accused of the dirty deed and the good reverend is calling for an exorcism. Can Shelby find the killer before the pastor exorcises her spirit friends away from the only homes and town they've ever known? Find out in the Mad River Mystery Series.

Within the depths of her eccentric, struggling-writer mind, within her every novel, lies what she believes to be the perfect man. The perfect hero. His name...Bob. Emily Stevenson dreams, creates, inspires and writes all for the one character she truly feels no man alive could compare. No man alive, that is. All that changes when Emily's fictional world comically collides with reality. Not only does she meet the man who looks, talks, and acts like her "Bob", but she falls in love with him. There's only one problem....

Sandi Webster, Los Angeles P.I., has a new case. When a drunken bum is found dead in her client's basement, she has to figure out who might have had a motive for murder other than a young, single mother. In the process of investigating the crime, Sandi uncovers secrets she'd rather not know. Sandi's partner, Pete, is searching for a killer in Nevada, leaving her to fend for herself, something she does with finesse. In the meantime, a huge dog named Bubba adopts Sandi and moves in, but shows signs of cowardice when eerie sounds are heard coming from the attic.

Louie Pyle, owner of Gas N Go convenience stores, is contemplating his future. Since his wife divorced him and their kids declared independence, Louie is feeling about as useful as the one necktie hanging in his closet. As the 2020 pandemic crosses the Fallam County Line, he faces untoward provocations from an illegal cigarette cartel, his mama Betty Doris who wants to move in with him, and visits from the ghost of his mentor Henry Lee. Things take a turn for the better when Lupita Quinn, a woman Louie admires from afar, shows an interest in helping him save his business. Stay Awhile Longer...

After being abandoned by her husband in a KOA campground, Sissy Jaspers must return home to Grace, West Virginia and rebuild her broken life. Along for the journey is Hazel, a sweet and spirited older lady, who has the gift of making everything taste better. With help from Sissy's father and brother, the two women turn an abandoned haunted house into a charming café. The Kitchen House, named for its resident ghosts, is a place of wonder where the living and dead coexist. The mystic café attracts patrons haunted by guilty secrets and burdened with grief.

Los Otis, una acomodada familia estadounidense, compra el añejo castillo inglés de los Canterville. Todos, hasta el mismo dueño, les avisan que la vivienda está habitada por un horrible fantasma, pero los Otis no creen en esas cosas. Lejos de amedrentarse, compran el castillo con fantasma incluído y acaban atormentando al pobre espectro anacrónico, que termina siendo juguete y víctima de los dos niños terribles de la familia.

Thruppence and Tim don't know what to expect when they ring the bell at the house with dusty windows. The Ministry of Ghosts has been given three months to prove the existence of ghosts! As it seems that children are particularly magnetic to ghosts, Thruppence and Tim are added to their ghost-catching team. And although neither of them are scared by talk of ghosts or monsters, they could never have imagined what happens next....

It's a week before Christmas, and Hettie and Tilly set out on a very dangerous case for The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency. Lady Eloise Crabstock-Singe has summoned them to Crabstock Manor, hoping they can solve the mystery of Christmas Paws: a servant cat that haunts the manor, intent on killing off all the Crabstocks. Through blizzard and storm, stranded on the notorious Bodkin Moor, will Hettie and Tilly save the day and get home in time for Christmas dinner?

Sovvan wants to save her mage-gifted brother from the demon bent on devouring his soul. But first, she needs to stop her ex-guardian angel from completing a spell that could destroy the repository of all memory and with it, the last fourteen years of her strange existence. If only this bizarre band of creatures would stop kidnapping her, she could make a start on that. But those creatures have plans, and they won’t take no for an answer. There’s no rest for the dead, especially not for someone who’s caught between angels and demons in a world where magic is real and just using it can ...

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Benedict is an inventor whose life’s work is a clean energy machine. It has just made him an overnight sensation and his family is suddenly wealthy. Benedict’s wife, Karen, and his teenage daughters, Charlotte and Poppy, are proud of him. But there are problems Benedict is too busy to see: Karen is deeply unhappy in the marriage and contemplating an affair, Charlotte, who is dealing with a chronic illness, is growing more and more distant, and Poppy is cracking under the pressures of her social circle. And there’s another problem.