Listen to the first chapter of The Screaming Staircase, by Jonathan Stroud here. If you’d like to read the rest of it, check it out at the Skyview library, or it’s available as an audiobook and eBook on both the KPBSD digital library and the Alaska digital library (through Sora). Listen to other first chapters in the virtual reading room.
Genre: Fantasy fiction, scary
About the book: When London is overrun by malevolent spirits, a talented group of young psychic detectives compete against other ghostbusting agencies in the debut of a new series that finds three intrepid colleagues investigating one of England’s most haunted houses.