In A Coming Evil by Vivian Vande Velde, a young girl and a medieval ghost helped hide refugees from the Nazis. From the same author, Ghost of a Hanged Man was set in the Wild West. A boy encountered the ghost of an old actor in The Face in the Mirror by Stephanie S. Tolan, and a girl with agoraphobia could hear strange voices in Angels Turn Their Backs by Margaret Buffie.

Margaret Mahy’s novella The Horriby Haunted School was about a boy who had an allergy to ghosts, and there were more spooks in The Haunting by Joan Lowery Nixon, The Crow Haunting by Julia Jarman, The Ghost Twin by Richard Brown, The Ghost of Sadie Kimber by Pat Moon, The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice, The Phantom Thief by Pete Johnson, and Blackthorn, Whitethorn by Rachel Anderson.

A boy was pursued by an evil he could never escape in Catchman by Chris Wooding, and there were more devilish happenings in The Secret of the Pit by Hugh Scott. Vlad the Undead by Hanna Liitzen was a translation of the 1995 Danish novel about a young woman who read an account of a vampire in an old journal.

Andrew Bromfield translated A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories, a collection of eight tales by Victor Pelevin, first published in 1994. Here There Be Ghosts collected eleven stories (five reprints) and seven poems (one reprint) by Jane Yolen. Shadows was a collection of seven horror stories by James Schmidt, and Somewhere Else featured two ghost/time-travel stories by Leon Rosselson.

Classic Ghost Stories II edited by Glen Bledsoe and Karen Bledsoe contained eight stories by M. R. James, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Mary Wilkins Freeman and others, illustrated by Barbara Kiwak. Great Ghost Stories edited by Barry Moser collected thirteen tales by such authors as H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells and Joyce Carol Oates. Edited by Alan Durant and illustrated by Nick Hardcastle, Vampire & Werewolf Stories contained eighteen stories and novel extracts by Bram Stoker, Richard Matheson and Jane Yolen, amongst others.