FREE BOOK Giveaway: TEN Copies of Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls by Victoria Laurie
PLEASE NOTE: This contest is closed and the winners will be chosen at a later date via email.
Hi everybody!
I am very excited to offer up TEN brand new shiny copies of Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls
About the Book:
“When M.J. Holliday and the crew of her cable TV show, Ghoul Getters, venture to the haunted ruins of Dunlow Castle in Ireland, drawn by the legend of hidden treasure, they hope the road will rise up to meet them, that the wind will always be at their backs-and that the resident phantom won’t push them off a cliff. If they treasure their lives, M.J. and her ghost busters need to get the drop on the menacing phantom…”
Books in the series in the order they should be read:
What’s a Ghoul to Do?
Demons Are a Ghoul’s Best Friend
Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun
Ghouls Gone Wild
Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls
About the Author:
“When I was in the 7th grade I took one of those career aptitude tests – you know, the ones where you answer a bunch of questions and the results indicate what profession you’d best be suited for? Yeah, well my test results indicated I was best suited for a career as a government spy.
A SPY!
I think I had the coolest results in the entire class. 
Needless to say, I did not follow that particular career path – or maybe I just took the more indirect route. In my thirties a very good friend of mine who is now one of the world’s most renowned psychic mediums suggested I stop ignoring my talents and dive right into the professional world of a psychic intuitive. On a lark, I did. And the results were pretty mind-blowing. Within just a few short weeks even I couldn’t deny it – so much of what I predicted for total strangers was coming true and I really had to accept the “gift” so to speak.
Over the years I’ve built a really fabulous clientele and all those experiences have helped me create the Psychic Eye Mysteries, the Ghost Hunter Mysteries, and – for children – Oracles of Delphi Keep. And along that way I discovered my true love – writing.
Writing is one of those passions that gets me out of bed in the morning and invigorates my day. I love spinning a good yarn, and when I feel I actually get it right – wow! There is no better feeling.
In fact, the other day I was kicking back after a looooong day of writing, which ended in the completion of a manuscript and I remember just marveling in the fact that I actually get paid to daydream! I can’t think of a more satisfying way to spend a life. And let’s face it – it’s a whole lot safer than working some covert operation. Although – I’m pretty sure the benefits might be better at the CIA. Still, I’ll stick to my daydreams…at least for now… ”
Contest:
Contest runs through February 11th, 2011 at 11:59 pm CDT. Open to entrants in the US only. These will be shipping from the PUBLISHER Signet who has generously donated them for this giveaway.
1. Leave your first name and last initial and your COUNTRY or your entries won’t count. + 1 point
2. Tell us your favorite ghost tales yours or in print. + 5 points max
3. Do you believe in ghosts? + 5 points max
4. Add up your own points + 1 points
Kate M.
USA
2. I love any ghost stories that involve the Civil War. I live very close to Vicksburg, MS and there are old antebellum homes with really cool ghost stories. The military park is also said to be haunted as well.
3. From my own personal experience (lived in a home with very many unusual experiences)I would have to answer yes. I’ve never seen one standing right in front of me but I have heard and felt some weird things before.
1+5+5+1=12
12 points
Lisa D. USA
I like Peter Staub’s ghost stories and yours and etc.
I was with a friend and her house is haunted by something!
Yes I believe in ghosts. I’ve seen them in the house I grew up in.
Total points =
12
-Michelle S – USA +1
-Favorite Ghost Stories- I love ghost stories I have a book of haunted places in America and I actually lived in the apartment building (but not the actual apartment)from the book. I have read the other Ghost Hunter novel and I would love to read this one. +5
-Yes I believe in ghosts I have never seen one but have had some very strange experiences that I could in no way explain. +5
-Total my own points +1
=12
1. Rachel Flesher/Raonaid Luckwell – US +1
2. Would it be the ghost stories on each series of Ghost Adventures? I love hearing the back story of each place the guys visits. Yeah sounds lame but I really like that show. +5
3. Yes I do believe in ghosts. The previous place I lived there were a lot of freaky things that went on that just could not be explained. +5
4. Adding +1
12
Cindy M. from USA
Oh this is so up my alley! After my Grandma died of Alzheimers I saw her in my bedroom door…smiling. So I knew she had her memory back & was happy. So yes I believe in ghosts!
1+5+5+1=12
+1 Ruth T. USA
+5 Kansas Sally’s ghost
+5 Yes I believe in ghost
+1 point tally
=
12
Katie P. USA +!
My Favorite ghost story is the Mediator series between Suze and Jessie by Meg Cabot. I haven’t really found a better story, in my opinion, since I’ve read that series. +5
I do believe in ghosts, just that maybe they are people living in a different time when the past, present and future sort of shift and become 1 for like a second or something and thats why weird things happen like cold spots, things being moved. +5
For adding points +1
total: 12
1. DOLORES M., USA
2. THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR
3. YES, I BELIEVE IN GHOSTS. I TRULY BELIEVE MY DECEASED MOTHER VISITED ME IN ORDER TO PROVIDE COMFORT WHEN I NEEDED IT.
4. 1+5+5+1 = 12
Jessica C
usa =1
I do believe in ghosts =5
+ 1 for adding up total = 7
Pam B – USA
My favorite ghost story so far (changes when I read a new one) is the ghost story from “Sex and the Psychic Witch” by Annette Blair.
Yes, I believe in some type of ghost – that spirits live on.
1+5+5+1 = 12
Carencay B USA
Graveyard Secret
Yes
12
1. Barbara E., USA + 1 point
2. My favorite ghost tale is Lynn Kurland’s Stardust of Yesterday – a wonderful story with a ghost as the romantic protagonist. + 5 points max
3. I don’t believe in ghosts, but I’d like to. + 5 points max
4. Add up your own points + 1 points
Total = 12
Lora W. USA
I love the ghost huntress series by Marley Gibson.
I dont know that i believe in Ghosts but i do believe in Spirits.
Total-12
1. susan L. PA, USA
2. I have a true ghost story..when I was growing up you could hear chains being dragged across the attic floor where we lived. We had check things out..well my parents did..I was too young.. and it was told a man was kept up there as he was not safe to be around people and his family would make him stay there so he would not harm anyone. I guess back in the early years people with disabilities would be hidden in such ways. I would cover my head whenever I heard the sounds and we only loved there about 1 year and we moved away.
3. yes I truly believe in ghosts and have witness a few cases of friends who has passed away showing up at unexpected times in my life.
4. I add up 12 points 1+5+5+1==12
Lisa R smalltown, USA
My favorite changes with what I’m, currently reading. I just finished one by Bernita Harris “Dark and Disorderly” that had a ghost dog in it that protected the heroine, that I loved. While I’ve never seen a ghost, I’m open to the possibilities.
I haven’t started the “Ghost Hunter Mystery”, though I do have at least the first two on my shelf. I’ve read almost all the “Psychic Eye Mystery” and loved it so know I’m in for a treat with the Ghost Hunter mysteries.
total=12
1. Rae M., USA +1
2. Recently I picked up this book about ghost stories and haunted places around the city where I live. I have to admit, there was a pretty high creeped-out factor after I read some of the stories. +5
3. Do I believe in ghosts? Yes. + 5
4. Tally Points +1
Total = 12
1. Linda T., USA +1
2. When I lived in Memphis, we used to go to a lake in a city Park that was rumored to be home to the Blue Lady. Here in Florida, we are rumored to have ghosts in our local theatre in Titusville and in a restaurant in Rockledge. Last month, I read a darling ghost book entitled “Ghost a la Mode” – the 2nd book in that series is coming out this month. +5
3. My son & I catch every episode of Ghost Adventures AND Ghost Hunters on TV. Years ago, I saw a ghost over my bed. I believe. +5
4. Tallied Points +1
Note to myself: I need to read your books!
Total Points: 12
1.)Carol M., USA +1
2.) My favorite ghost story of all time has to be The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.
3.)I’m not positive that I believe in ghosts, but I do think they may indeed be likely, and certainly easier believe in than some other paranormal beings. +5
4.) Total: 12
* Stacey S USA +1
* Not a Ghost storie as much as a Ghost Show I Watch all the Ghost Hunter Shows Love them would love to be a Ghost Hunter my Self. +5
* I do believe in ghost lived in a few Hounted house’s in my time. +5
* I Added my Points Plus 1=12
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Joyce G, USA +1
My ghost story is from when my Mother was very ill. I lived upstairs and had touch activated bedroom lights given to me by my grandmother. They would go on and off constantly and then stop. One night my mother could not breathe but could not call out to tell me. The lights went on and off until I got the message to go down and check on her. After that they would do that I would check on Mom and sure enough she needed help of some sort. After Mom passed away the lights did their thing on the day of the funeral but never since.
+5
Yes I do believe in ghosts. +5
Add up points. +1
total points 12
+1 Donna S, USA
+5 Heather Graham’s books for modern stories and A Christmas Carol for classics
+5 Yup
+1 total – 12
Viki S. USA +1
I don’t have a favorite ghost story. I really enjoy watching ghost hunters at Halloween though. They come up with some excellent places to investigate. +5
Yes, I believe in ghosts. +5
Talley +1
Total = 12
1. Emily H., USA
2. Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales by Brian Jacques
3. Yes.
4. 12 points
Elizabeth H. USA, +1
I do believein ghosts, +5
Not sure what my fav ghost story is
adding all my ownpoints +1
total 7
+1 Raelena P.,USA
+5 I don’t believe in ghosts
+1 add up
TOTAL: 7
SharonS, USA
Loved the ghost walk in Charleston, SC
Don’t believe in ghosts, but would love too
12 points!
My favorite ghost story is A Christmas Carol.
I don’t believe in ghosts
total = 12
Christy M
USA
My favorite ghost story is a local story! It is called the Pactolus lights and i lived on the road that intersects the road that this ghost story “happened”. A young man was driving home late one night on this old country road, and he missed seeing a curve, drove into the ditch, hit a tree and died. now every night he wonders the road trying to stop people from going down the road by making their cars break down. he does this by circling your car while you are going dow the road, because he appears as a big ball of light. My brother showed the lights to me one night (when i was young) and i was scared witless. i wont ruin it by telling you what really made the lights really shine ^_^!
Yes, i have seen a ghost, so yes i believe in them.
total=12
Shell B
My sons have worken up in the middle of the night and were watching both a young boy and a dog ghost in my upstairs hall.
This was after their brother died at birth and the hall they saw this ghost boy was the same one I collapsed in…. we still don’t know about the dog…. it apparently hides under the bathtub….
Yes I believe
total for adding 12
1. Beth M.-Austin, TX-USA + 1 point
2. I like Japanese ghost stories, they are usually creepy and spooky. My favorite is about a man who, late at night, is walking home and hears a woman in a kimono crying he approaches her to see what’s wrong and she looks up and has no face. She turns her head towards him and disappears. He runs away screaming and comes upon a noodle shop. He orders a bowl of noodles from the cook who is facing away from him. As the chef turns to hand him his noodles, he looks up and notices the cook has no face either. He runs away screaming.+ 5 points max
3. I believe in ghosts. I believe I’ve encountered a couple in my lifetime. Very scary! I hope I don’t encounter any again but who knows? + 5 points max
4. Add up your own points + 1 points
12 points
2. Tell us your favorite ghost tales yours or in print. + 5 points max
Highlander in her Bed by Allie Macay. It has humor which I love.
3. Do you believe in ghosts? + 5 points max
I think I do but it is the one thing paranormal that can seriously freak me out when I read or watch a movie. Give me vampires and zombies but not ghosts. I think it is because they have a potential to be real.
4. 11 points total
4. Add up your own points + 1 points
1. Patricia B. USA +1
2. I know it is an oldie and not in the scary category and not in print, but the movie THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR has always been a favorite. +1
I was trying to remember the title of a wonderfully sweet and funny book I read and saw it above, HIGHLANDER IN HER BED by Allie Mackay. +1
GHOST RIDERS by Sharyn McCrumb actually is set in the area where we live. +1
There is a local legend of a young woman who fell to her death at Devil’s Looking Glass and is said to be seen on the road late at night. There has even been a song written about it. +1
There is a Tennessee legend of the Bell Witch which has had several books and stories written about it. One is AN AMERICAN HAUNTING: THE BELL WITCH by Brent Monahan and another is THE INFAMOUS BELL WITCH OF TENNESSEE by Charles Edwin Price. +1
3. Do I believe in ghosts? Yes. Our house is the second haunted house we have lived in. My daughter has had several experiences and one that was very frightening.
Our son woke one night to see a little girl standing by his bed.
Our first night in the house, I awoke to the definite feeling of someone standing in the doorway watching us. It wasn’t threatening, just sort of a “you are the new ones and you’re accepted” kind of feeling. I have had that same feeling of being watched many times over the years. Our house was built in 1898 and is located in the area of an old indian village.
The house is purported to have a “lady in white” that appears on the upstairs landing before someone dies. Our youngest claims to have seen her the night before our cat died. I don’t want to find out if this ghost story holds true.
I grew up in an old 1865 farm house. Many times I heard water running, footsteps, or breathing. The feeling of being watched was often present. Unlike the house we live in now, no one ever claimed to see anything.
+5
4. Add up your points. +1
Total = 12
Tracey D USA + 1 point
2. I love Ghost Story by Peter Straub. I read it every fall and get scared all over again! + 5 point
3. I believe in spirits, though I’m not sure if it’s the same as ghosts +5 points
4. Add up your own points + 1 points
Total = 12
1. Joani S from USA
2. Nothing in particular comes to mind, I love watching all I can on tv about ghosts, and I love reading about them. The scarier the better!!
3. Yes I believe in ghosts. There’s a whole world we don’t know much about, and ghosts are def part of it!!
4. Add points=12
Debbie L., USA
There used to be a tale they told around here about the high school being buried really close to a burial ground for animals, horses in particular. And when you were at the school late for ball practice or something you could sometimes here the horses galloping down the hallways.
I’m not sure where I stand on the ghost issue… mostly I’m thinking NO!
Points = 12
Mare S, USA + 1 point
I live about two hours away from Gettysberg and, along with all the history of the battle, I love the ghost stories. When I was considering going to college there, I remember the story of the blue boy and the wounded soldier who both were said to randomly appear in dormrooms (it had been a makeshift hospital during the civil war) + 5 points
I do believe in ghosts. I’m not sure it’s so much like the movies or anything, but I definitely think energy lives on in some form, at least for a bit of time. + 5 points
Add up your own points + 1 points
Total = 12
1. Elaine R, USA
2. About 16 years ago, I woke up, early morning, and I could swear I saw a man holding the hand of a little boy standing by the bed. Now granted I am blind as a bat with my glasses off, so when I put them on, they were gone…who knows what I really saw.
3. Do you believe in ghosts? – I believe that anything is possible
4. Add up your own points = 12
Dina S USA + 1 point
I love to watch Ghost Adventures since I have no real storeis of my own + 5 points
yes I do believe in ghosts? +5 points
Add up your own points + 1 points
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12pts
Rhianna W. (USA)
Now that you asked about a favorite ghost story I am totally blank even though I’ve read a few. I think I’m gonna go with Elizabeth Chandler’s Kissed By An Angel books… technically the boyfriend is an angel, not a ghost but he’s pretty much a ghost for all intents and purposes. And who didn’t love the movie Ghost with Patrick Swayze? It was on TV the other night and I caught my husband watching it. teehee!
I do not believe in ghosts. I think it’s certainly possible that there is energy left behind that might be felt but I’ve never had any experiences that lead me to believe in ghosts. I do love ghost stories though.
Name & Country +1
Fave Ghost Story +5
Belief +5
Tally +1
Total = 12
donna k in VA
my brother leads ghost tours in a civil war town, so my favorite ghost stories are the one’s he tells
while i haven’t seen any ghosts, i don’t discount them either
total=12
Elie N, USA
-I don’t want to believe in ghosts, however I believe anything is possible.
-7 entries
I do believe in ghosts – seen a couple and it’s nothing like Hollywood’s version. I usually feel like I’m not alone. It was never spooky.
I can’t remember the last ghost story that I’ve read, but I do have the ghost girl series in my TBR pile
Vixhen V -USA
total points 12
Can’t really think of a ghost story I liked.
I’ve never seen a ghost, but I don’t disbelieve.
=12 points
Thank You Victoria Laurie for this amazing opportunity and Thank You BBB as well!!!
1. Leave your first name and last initial and your COUNTRY or your entries won
Finally remembered the show’s title on Snick: Are you afraid of the Dark? Amazing and pretty creepy, especially since it was aimed for kids. Some of the stories they had on were pretty funky! But ahhh the good times!! HAHA!!
Helen G. USA
Git B. of US +1
Favorite Ghost Tales: Stardust of Yesterday by Lynn Kurland + 5 points max
I am open to the idea that ghosts may exist + 5 points max
Tally: 1 + 5 + 5 + 1 points = 12 points
Tell us your favorite ghost tales yours or in print.
This is a bit like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, because I don’t really have an favourite tales that spring to mind…but trying to find something on the bookshelf I stumbled across a collection including the short ghost story called ‘Lost Hearts’ by M.R. James. I still recall the story and it has great impact even decades after the author wrote it. (+5)
Do you believe in ghosts?
Yes. (+5)
Add up your own points
(+1)
James R.
USA (+1)
Total 12
+1 Christine H USA
+5 Tell us your favorite ghost tales yours or in print. I just heard one from my long lost sister in Law who was telling me about a trip to a haunted mansion in Baton Rouge and she said there was nothing around so no other hotel to go to because most of them were scares, One woman screamed when she felt her hair get pulled, one seen a ghost sitting in a chair, she said a lot of people slept with Bibles that night, but she got zero sleep! lol
+5 Do you believe in ghosts? No, not until I see one I guess.
+1 Add up your own points + 1 points
Total 12
1. Diana R. USA (+1)
2. My favorite ghost tales are the ones I have heard about in some underground place in France. They say they use to throw people down there as punishment a long time ago and people believe their ghosts roam around underground. Heard about it years ago and it still creeps me out thinking about it. (+5)
3. I do actually believe in ghosts, but I don’t believe they are as crazy scary as the movies make them out to be. (+5)
4. Added total (+1)
=12 points
Hi!
My favorite ghost story is The Lady in Black by Susan Hill.
Yes, I do believe in ghosts!
1+5+5+1 = 12
I love classic ghost stories like the Canterbury Tales or the Ghost and Mrs. Muir, but also psychological ones like the Sixth Sense.
I live near Gettysburg, and definitely believe in ghosts!
Cate M, USA
1. Leave your first name and last initial and your COUNTRY or your entries won
Kris T., USA (+1)
Favorite ghost story: Neil Gaiman’s “Graveyard Book” (I won’t even bother to list any more; this one is simply the best.) (+1)
I’m an agnostic when it comes to ghosts. (+1)
Total points (+1) = 4
Thanks for the chance to win a copy of “Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls”!!!
1. Savannah S. usa + 1 point
2. Tell us your favorite ghost tales yours or in print.
as a kid i really loved “wait til mary comes” or something like that, and i love the story of bloody mary and the albino lady + 5 points
3. Do you believe in ghosts?
yes because ive seen and felt them + 5 points
4. Add up your own points 11 + 1 = 12points
1. * Lisa G. from USA* +1
2. Tell us your favorite ghost tales yours or in print.
* I love ghost stories that take place in New Orleans. It’s my favorite city for any kind of PNR. Midnight Bayou from Nora Roberts is one of my favorites. +5
3. Do you believe in ghosts?
* Yes I do and have had an experience with one in my former home. +5
add em all up +1
+12
Thx, Lisa