Books like Puppet's Payback and Other Chilling Tales by Mary Downing Hahn

When Molly and Michael become wary of their new stepsister Heather, they discover her inexplicably drawn to a mysterious ghost child and must decide whether to help her avoid a tragic fate.

Two voices—Jules, whose father is restoring an abandoned house in Virginia, and a girl who once lived there—begin communicating across time, revealing a tragic past filled with danger, friendship, and the haunting pull of fate.

Twin siblings Ben and Jenny Renfro battle an unsettling fear of marionettes and other puppets, uncovering why the haunting dread haunts them.

During a Maine vacation, Ali and her baby cousin Emma encounter a mysterious girl named Sissy, who hints at a long‑lost drowned girl named Teresa. Ali must unravel the secret behind Teresa’s disappearance to protect her family.

**What secrets does the Shadow Market hold?** The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters' world. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past. Follow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Not even Brother Zachariah. This description comes from the publisher. *Ghosts of the Shadow Market* takes place in the Shadowhunter world, the first book of which is *City of Bones*.

In Victorian London, ten‑year‑old Florence Crutchfield is sent to an orphanage-run house with her great‑uncle, great‑aunt and sick cousin James. Little does she know another, sinister presence lurks in the home, threatening both girls’ safety.

A fictionalized account of the last blood libel trial in Hungary in 1882 is told through the eyes of Julie, a friend of the murdered servant girl Esther and a servant at the jail where Morris Scharf, the accused, is imprisoned.