The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall (27 page)

Copyright © 2015 by Katie Alender

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Alender, Katie, author.

The dead girls of Hysteria Hall / Katie Alender.—First edition.

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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall—unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister, parents, and perhaps herself.

ISBN 978-0-545-63999-6 (jacketed hardcover) 1. Asylums—Juvenile fiction. 2. Haunted houses—Juvenile fiction. 3. Secrecy—Juvenile fiction. 4. Sisters—Juvenile fiction. 5. Families—Pennsylvania—Juvenile fiction. 6. Horror tales. 7. Ghost stories. [1. Haunted houses—Fiction. 2. Psychiatric hospitals—Fiction. 3. Ghosts—Fiction. 4. Secrets—Fiction. 5. Sisters—Fiction. 6. Family life—Fiction. 7. Horror stories.] I. Title.

PZ7.A3747De 2015

813.6—dc23

[Fic]

2014046681

First edition, September 2015

Cover design by Yaffa Jaskoll

Cover art © 2015 by Larry Rostant

Cover images ©: Patryk Kosminder/Shutterstock.com (house), Caspar Benson/Media Bakery (blood)

Author photo by Christopher Alender

e-ISBN 978-0-545-64000-8

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