You might want to keep the lights on as you read The World’s Most Haunted Places. This spine-chilling Special Edition from LIFE is filled with striking photos and eerie stories about some of the world’s creepiest places. There’s the hotel that inspired The Shining . . . the Amityville Horror house . . . and the dilapidated farm that was home to the serial killer who inspired The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Silence of the Lambs, and Psycho.

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Mandy and her best friend James are used to dealing with animals in distress. But ghostly animals in distress are a different matter.

When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.

Derek Stone thought that his father and brother were killed in a train accident, but then his brother returns, strangely changed, and Derek begins to suspect that dead people are coming back to prey on the living.

"Could the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? Derek can't claim to be a normal fourteen-year-old anymore. Not after what he discovered at the Red House. His role in the war against the dead is more pivotal--and more terrifying--than he could have imagined. And so it all comes down to this. The Rift between the worlds of the living and the dead has to be closed...forever. It seems like an impossible task. And it rests squarely on the shoulders...

Contains accounts of reportedly true ghost sightings on over twenty battlefields and provides descriptions of the battles which took place at each sight.

Derek Stone and his brother, whose body is inhabited by a dead soul, must prevent the undead Legion army from reaching the abandoned Red House and discovering the secret that is hidden there.