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	Twelve Nights at Rotter House 3.41 avg rating — 3,104 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items 3.72 avg rating — 2,155 ratings — published 2020 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts 3.93 avg rating — 917 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters 3.92 avg rating — 754 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe 4.16 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New England Grimpendium 3.84 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Smashed Man of Dread End 3.85 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death and Douglas 3.95 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Slide 3.49 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New York Grimpendium: A Guide to Macabre and Ghastly Sites in New York State really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Author here. I cannot describe how much fun this book was to write. Hope you have even 10% of the fun reading it.
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Thanks for checking out my book. I wanted to push the bounds of middle grade horror a bit with this one. The kids deserve so much more from their scares.
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Author here. The Smashed Man of Dread End is for kids who want a scare but not a ghost story. For kids who believe their neighborhood can contain an entire universe. For kids who know that, in the end, the adults can’t help them. And for adults who w ...more
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“Because you trust your house, right? It's your house. It protects you from the world and, even more important, all the people out there. It sees you naked every day. It knows your sins. It's the only place where you are your true self. So when that gets corrupted, when that becomes haunted, that's terrifying.”
― J.W. Ocker, Twelve Nights at Rotter House

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“It was a strange experience to be looking out the window of an eighteenth-century Chinese house at a seventeenth-century colonial graveyard full of people in twenty-first-century Halloween costumes. Salem, guys.”
― J.W. Ocker, A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts

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“When you place a man like Poe in your rot garden, you need to holy it up real fast, so three years after Poe was buried, they built a church in the graveyard. Actually, they built a church on top of the graveyard.”
― J.W. Ocker, Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

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Into the Shadows by Cathy MacPhail

3 votes, 21.4%

Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare by Darren Shan

1 vote, 7.1%

Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

1 vote, 7.1%

The One Safe Place by Tania Unsworth (write-in)

1 vote, 7.1%

The Magnus Archives: Season 1 by Jonathan Sims

1 vote, 7.1%

Stay Out of the Basement by R.L. Stine (write-in)

1 vote, 7.1%

The Haunting of the Old Yellow House on Millard Road by D. A. L. (write-in)

1 vote, 7.1%

Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper (write-in)

1 vote, 7.1%

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

1 vote, 7.1%

The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story by Charis Cotter (write-in)

1 vote, 7.1%

Thirteens by Kate Alice Marshall (write-in)

1 vote, 7.1%

Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney

1 vote, 7.1%

The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright

0 votes, 0.0%

The Tell-Tale Start by Gordon McAlpine

0 votes, 0.0%

The Dark by James Herbert

0 votes, 0.0%

The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson

0 votes, 0.0%

Carrie by Stephen King

0 votes, 0.0%

The Terror by Dan Simmons

0 votes, 0.0%

Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill

0 votes, 0.0%

The Graveyard Book, Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell

0 votes, 0.0%

The Hunger by Alma Katsu

0 votes, 0.0%

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

0 votes, 0.0%

The Chain by Adrian McKinty

0 votes, 0.0%

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

0 votes, 0.0%

Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1 by Naoki Urasawa

0 votes, 0.0%

The Glass Children by Kristina Ohlsson

0 votes, 0.0%

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall

0 votes, 0.0%

The Ghost of Spruce Point by Nancy Tandon

0 votes, 0.0%

The Smashed Man of Dread End by J.W. Ocker

0 votes, 0.0%

This Appearing House by Ally Malinenko

0 votes, 0.0%

What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

0 votes, 0.0%

The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Penelope Lively

0 votes, 0.0%

The Satanic Mill by Otfried Preußler

0 votes, 0.0%

The Amazing Mr Blunden by Antonia Barber

0 votes, 0.0%

The Bone Collector's Son by Paul Yee

0 votes, 0.0%

Ferals by Jacob Grey

0 votes, 0.0%

The Gravedigger's Son by Patrick Moody

0 votes, 0.0%

Gustav Gloom and the People Taker by Adam-Troy Castro

0 votes, 0.0%

Ghost and Bone by Andrew Prentice

0 votes, 0.0%

The Ghost of Graylock by Dan Poblocki

0 votes, 0.0%

The Grave Robber's Apprentice by Allan Stratton

0 votes, 0.0%

The Owl Service by Alan Garner

0 votes, 0.0%

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

0 votes, 0.0%

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

0 votes, 0.0%

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

0 votes, 0.0%

The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates

0 votes, 0.0%

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

0 votes, 0.0%

The Thirteen Treasures by Michelle Harrison

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Truthwitch by Susan Dennard

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