Cassie Palmer is the seventh child of a seventh child. She is blessed - or cursed - with second sight. Cassie can communicate with the dead, a really useful skill for the daughter of a struggling spirit medium. Her mother is ecstatic. But Cassie is not. Not happy. Not excited. She is angry - and maybe just a little afraid...

It was supposed to be fun. Caitlin had been looking forward to the camping trip with Pam, looking forward to some time alone with her increasingly distant older sister. Then Pam's boyfriend showed up and suddenly Caitlin felt like excess baggage. As if this were not enough, Caitlin has started seeing things: visions of a fire no one else can see, and someone crying for help, a boy who has been dead a very long time...

Twelve people have died on the hairpin bend at Departure Point. Vicki West is one of them. Since the accident, Vicki has haunted the scene of her untimely death. Guilty and horrified, she watches, unable to prevent more tragedies on that terrible stretch of road. No one can see or hear her - until he comes along, the guy in the tux. Who is he? Why is he the only one to be aware of her? Can he help?

"Do places where violent deaths took place somehow absorb the horror of the events? Can these impressions be released again like photographs printed from a negative? Some people believe that is what happens. That's why ghosts are reported most often at places where people have died by violence." Here is a collection of tales, told as true, of ghostly happenings connected with the most violent of acts, war.

A charmingly creepy little tale. Jack Best is a happy man, eagerly anticipating his marriage to the wondrous Gillian. But one rather peculiar wedding gift could change everything. Someone has sent a mysterious map that may lead Jack down the road to disaster. Charles Keeping's exaggerated ink drawings, at once humourous and haunting, make a strong visual statement to equal the elegance and wry wit in Leon Garfield's curious fairy tale gone wrong.

"It's salt... It's the only thing that would have saved 'em. Salt in the cradle. It ought to have been done. Twins is bad enough. They'll only have half a soul a-piece. But Saturday makes it worse. Saturday's child will see ghosts." Twins Peter and Paul Gannett begin their lives overshadowed with this dark warning. All too soon, the prophecy of doom seems to be coming true. An eighteenth-century tale crackling with tension and mystery by the author of Black Jack and John Diamond.

"The first time Teresa saw Brother was the way she would think of him ever after. Tree fell head over heels for him. It was love at first sight in a wild beating of her heart that took her breath. But it was a dark Friday three weeks later when it rained, hard and wicked, before she knew Brother Rush was a ghost." Left in charge of her mentally handicapped brother while their mother works, Tree is resentful of her responsibilities and unnerved by the sudden appearances of her own personal ghost. Just what is he trying to tell her?

Sally is shocked to discover that she is a ghost. She is annoyed at fluttering about uselessly and irritated at hearing her horrible sisters saying what they really think of her. She is also worried. The game she and her sisters played of "worshipping" a creature called the Monigan has somehow become all too real. Can one insubstantial ghost stop the game from going horribly wrong?

Graymoss Plantation has been in Lia's family for generations. But Graymoss is no cosy old homestead. It is haunted, full of screams and whispers, apparitions and horrors. Lia is no hero. So when her family decides to take up residence in the place, she is desperate to change their minds. If only they would listen... Joan Lowery Nixon is the author of many other edge-of-your seat tales of suspense including Murdered, My Sweet, Don't Scream, and the Dark and Deadly Pool.

"Many's the ignorant person who claims that spirits and haunts have forsaken the modern age in this new twentieth century. But what they do not know would fill a book. And this is the book." Blossom Culp is in a bit of trouble. To get herself out she decides to pretend to have second sight. But things get a little crazy when Blossom starts receiving genuine communications from beyond the grave. Leaping lizards! She really is psychic! Blossom embarks on a madcap career but finds that even second sight can't change history as she witnesses the tragedy of the Titanic. Newbery Medal-winner Richard Peck skillfully combines comedy and pathos in this ghostly adventure.

Mike is gone. Just gone. Did he run away? Or did something worse happen? Jeff needs to know. Mike is haunting his dreams, asking for his help. But finding Mike might mean more than Jeff thinks. It might mean discovering the dark side of the friend he thought he knew better than anyone...

David Yaffe has been acquitted of his girlfriend's murder. But the atmosphere of suspicion won't go away. Running from the relentless pressure of the media and the contaminated curiosity of his neighbors, David moves to another town to finish high school. But the house he shares with his ineffectual uncle, cold aunt and frightening young cousin Lily has an atmosphere of its own - an atmosphere that is decidedly unsettling. A shadow flits through David's attic apartment, and a humming fills the air. Could it really be the ghost of Lily's elder sister Kathy that begs him: "Help Lily"...