Ghost Humor

Something horrifically sinister lurks in the town of Mountain Springs… Sharon Triplett’s life-change was to retreat to the majestic mountains, settle into her inherited family home with her two kids, plucky pet parakeet, Seymour, and try to recover from the tragic death of her husband, a hotshot, undercover, city detective. It was an elegant plan. It should have worked. But then, astoundingly, Seymour, began eerily communicating to her in her dead husband’s voice and Sharon’s life was flipped upside down. Sharon’s been keeping it all hush-hush. Impressive, considering she also has...

The house on Curmudgeon Avenue should be happy now—the nincompoop residents have all met their sorry ends. But they haven't quite left...now that a new family move in, can the house find peace? Or are the ghosts of Curmudgeon Avenue going to interfere with the goings-on, romance, and dramas that new residents bring? Gordon and Zandra Bennett, along with their lovelorn daughter, Krystina, move all the way from London to Curmudgeon Avenue. Zandra has her heart set on renovating the four-story Victorian terrace and hires Harry to rip out the old and bring in the new.

In their second adventure, Jack, his best friend Nancy and Stoop (a grumpy, 200-year-old monster hunter) head up to Scotland after reports of some mysterious monsters causing chaos in an ancient abbey. And maybe they’ll even get a glimpse of Nessie! But when they get there they find some obstacles in their path – whether that’s the fog goblins, disgruntled ghosts, some very odd loch monsters and even a rival monster hunting agency.

Chief is a story of an underprivileged, lousy English-speaking Hispanic immigrant who meets another, wrong side of the tracks, Gringo. He’s the freshmen high school class clown. Both of their wayward lives soon change when they somehow become cops. Santiago, although limited by his migrant background, attempts to rise through the police ranks. His new goal in life is to become the first Hispanic Chief of Police in Los Angeles, California. Then tragedy steps in and cuts one of the two buddy officers down in a horrific, yet heroic way! When all is certainly lost, a Heavenly visitor steps in...

El rancio abolengo de la tradición aristocrática británica, se enfrenta a su peor enemigo: una familia americana.....El gran fantasma de Canterville que había llevado durante más de 500 años una vida tranquila, aunque triste, se va a ver de repente enfrentado a la peor de las pesadillas que se podia imaginar: los Otis.El respeto al terror tradicional, provocado por los fantasmas medievales, el pánico generado por esos espíritus ancestrales.

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.

Michael Carter is 12 years old, and everything's going wrong. Every. Single. Thing. The Ninjas have to figure out how to stop the ghosts, but how? At least with the zombies and the aliens, they kind of knew how to stop and fight them. Ghosts? Not so much. They’re just like farts that developed consciousness.

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.

Komisch, spooky, gruftig - Kling im Doppelpack. Freddy und Flo ziehen um - in ein Haus direkt am Friedhof. Schon bald merkt Freddy: Die Nachbarn sind alles andere als normal! Doch Papa und Flo glauben ihm nicht, dass sie mit einer Hexe, einem Werwolf und einem Vampir unter einem Dach wohnen. Noch nicht mal, als Hexe Poppy durchs Fenster geflogen kommt! Also braucht Freddy Beweise - und zwar schnell, bevor der Vampir angreift! Das erste Kinderhörbuch von Maria Kling - gelesen von Marc-Uwe Kling!

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

Ada Goth is the only child of Lord Goth. The two live together in the enormous Ghastly-Gorm Hall. It’s hard for her to make friends and she's rather lonely. Then one day William and Emily Cabbage come to stay at the house, and together with a ghostly mouse called Ishmael they begin to unravel a dastardly plot. Ada and her friends must work together to foil the evil gamekeeper, Maltravers, before it's too late!

As a bloodcurlingly fearsome ghost, Humphrey the Horrible is a failure. He's not horrible at all. Instead of being ghastly and skeletal, he's pink and fluffy, like a summer cloud. Poor Humphrey can't scare anyone. But when the ghosts are in danger, it's clever Humphrey who comes up with a rescue plan.

"""Get me some ghosts,"" said Fulton Snoddle-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.

But Oliver likes ghosts. And the peculiar ones he meets at Helton Hall decide at once to help him outwit the wicked Snodde-Brittles.

Summer and Jerry’s romantic weekend takes a dark turn when they discover the body of a young woman in the surf. When the local police deny the crime and the newspaper prints nothing, Jerry and Summer realize they are on their own. But they have no idea how deep they will have to dig to find out the truth. The murder is only a thread in a web of lies that extends to the furthest reaches of political office. Are Summer’s visions to be the only clues? Jerry doesn’t think so, his focus on good old-fashioned detective work, but when he doubts her psychic abilities the trust between them ...

There’s nothing quite like finding yourself broke, homeless, divorced, and middle-aged all in the same year, but when Shelley Frost takes a new job working the night shift at the mysterious Shadow Bay Hotel in the picturesque seaside village, she expects her fortunes will take a turn for the better. Until the first dead body…. And then the ghost stories…. And then apparently magic is real… Running from fright to fright, from ghosts who just have the wrong idea about her, and fairly certain she’s losing her mind, Shelley wants no part in this weird world of supernatural mayhem, but...

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....

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.

Conrad Avery Sutton III is dead, but he's still around. And he's bent on revenge, frat-boy style. Responsible for the hazing "accident" that killed him is supposed golden boy Ryan Hutchins. Cult sensation Will Clarke delivers a darkly comic tale described as a cross between Animal House and The Lovely Bones.