Unraveling Isobel

Unraveling Isobel

Eileen Cook

Isobel’s life is falling apart. Her mom just married some guy she met on the internet only three months before, and is moving them to his sprawling, gothic mansion off the coast of nowhere. Goodbye, best friend. Goodbye, social life. Hello, icky new stepfather, crunchy granola town, and unbelievably good-looking, officially off-limits stepbrother.

But on her first night in her new home, Isobel starts to fear that it isn’t only her life that’s unraveling—her sanity might be giving way too. Because either Isobel is losing her mind, just like her artist father did before her, or she’s seeing ghosts. Either way, Isobel’s fast on her way to being the talk of the town for all the wrong reasons.

母親の再婚で引っ越した先はゴシックな豪邸で私の人生メチャクチャ、そして義理の兄はメチャイケメンで…うんぬん。

そして、そこで彼女はゴーストを見るようになり…。

といった話の、３部作らしいです。

Give Up Ghost

Give Up Ghost

Megan Crewe

Cass McKenna much prefers ghosts over “breathers.” Ghosts are uncomplicated and dependable, and they know the dirt on everybody…and Cass loves dirt. She’s on a mission to expose the dirty secrets of the poseurs in her school.


But when the vice president of the student council discovers her secret, Cass’s whole scheme hangs in the balance. Tim wants her to help him contact his recently deceased mother, and Cass reluctantly agrees.


As Cass becomes increasingly entwined in Tim’s life, she’s surprised to realize he’s not so bad—and he needs help more desperately than anyone else suspects. Maybe it’s time to give the living another chance….


スーパーナチュラル学園モノ。

英国幽霊案内

英国幽霊案内

ピーター・アンダーウッド

英国各地に伝わる幽霊譚＆幽霊名所全２３６箇所がこの一冊に


ゴーストの聖地、英国各地に伝わる幽霊譚の数々を徹底案内。


一冊で幽霊名所が網羅できる決定版。特別マップ付き。


英国幽霊探求の第一人者、「幽霊クラブthe Ghost Club Society」の終身会長などを務めるピーター・アンダーウッド氏が、英国全域の代表的な幽霊名所の数々を紹介。


２３６の幽霊譚がこの一冊に！　全スポットをまとめた特別マップ付き。


リアル・ゴースト・ストーリー＆スポットを網羅的に案内した英国幽霊ガイドの決定版が「幽クラシックス」から刊行！


ロンドンをはじめとする各地の幽霊屋敷の数々、ポルターガイスト、歴史上の偉人の霊、貴婦人の霊、騎士の霊、はたまた妖精など。


英国各地で語り継がれる数多の幽霊譚を一冊で味わえる。


翻訳は、『イギリス恐怖小説傑作選』を編むなど英国怪奇文藝への造詣も深い南條竹則氏。



英国ゴーストスポットガイド…だそうです。

Ghost and Goth

Ghost and Goth

Stacey Kade

1. The Ghost and the Goth
2. Queen of the Dead

After a close encounter with the front end of a school bus, Alona Dare goes from Homecoming Queen to Queen of the Dead. Now she’s stuck as a spirit in the land of the living with no sign of the big, bright light to take her away. To make matters worse, the only person who might be able to help her is Will Killian, a total loser outcast. He alone can see and hear (turns out he’s been “blessed” with the ability to communicate with the dead), but he wants nothing to do with the former mean girl of Groundsboro High.

Alona has never needed anyone for anything, and now she’s supposed to expose her deepest, darkest secrets to this pseudo-goth boy? Right. She’s not telling anyone what really happened the day she died, not even to save her eternal soul. And Will’s not filling out any volunteer forms to help her cross to the other side. He only has a few more weeks until his graduation, when he can strike out on his own and find a place with less spiritual interference. But he has to survive and stay out of the psych ward until then. Can they get over their mutual distrust―and the weird attraction between them―to work together before Alona vanishes for good and Will is locked up for seeing things that don’t exist?

Ghost and Gothシリーズ。

ゴースト学園ものです。

まさか続編出版されると思ってなかったシリーズ（笑）

とはいえ未読。

学園クイーンのアローナは事故でゴーストになり、どうしてかゴスの男子ウィルにだけ姿が見えるのだが…というお話。

導きの光が見えない…ってことだったんだけど、続編が出たってことはまだお迎えの光が来ないのか（笑）

The Graveyard Book

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

翻訳版：

『墓場の少年 ノーボディ・オーエンズの奇妙な生活』

It takes a graveyard to raise a child.

Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy―an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack―who has already killed Bod's family.

この子をノーボディと名づけよう―。ある夜、一家が殺害された。たったひとり、生き残ったよちよち歩きの赤ん坊が迷い込んだのは、真夜中の墓地。この日から、墓地の幽霊たちの愛情溢れる、世にも奇妙な子育てが始まった…。幽霊に育てられた少年の冒険と成長を描き、カーネギー賞とニューベリー賞をダブル受賞した、ゲイマンの最高傑作。

有名な映画脚本家だったり作家だったりのニールゲイマンによる児童書。

墓場の幽霊達に育てられたというとんでもな設定のお話。

児童書なので、ところどころ挿絵が入ってますが、挿絵の演出がまた粋な一冊。

とはいえ、未読。（笑）

Abandon

Abandon

Meg Cabot

A dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld.

Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.

But now she's moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.

Only she can't. Because even here, he finds her. That's how desperately he wants her back. She knows he's no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven, yet she can't stay away . . . especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.

But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.

Abandonシリーズ。

１冊目が出たばかりです。