Help me remember this book

[mazajo]

This is a young adult chapter book that I read when I was around 12 maybe? So about 20+ years ago. It was a ghost story with a girl named Heather in it, who actually might have been the ghost. It was about a family that moved into a house that had once been a church, and there was a graveyard and a lake on the property. That's about all I can remember about it, but I know that it was very creepy to me at the time and I loved it and it's driving me crazy that I can't remember more!

Ring a bell to anybody? TIA

[SpaceAngel401]

Wait Til Helen Comes....I don't know the author, but I read it, too; I am pretty sure that is what you are looking for!

[mazajo]

YES that's it! Thank you so much!!

When I looked it up, I found another old spooky favorite, The Dollhouse Murders, I had completely forgotten about that one. I was looking for good scary books for my almost 10yo DSD, but I think she's going to have to wait until I reread these first!

[SpaceAngel401]

I read The Dollhouse Murders too. Another good "spooky" book was The Doll in the Garden. (I think). I also liked Christina's Ghost.

[LinzMommy2Be]

Originally Posted by SpaceAngel401

I read The Dollhouse Murders too. Another good "spooky" book was The Doll in the Garden. (I think). I also liked Christina's Ghost.

I remember "The Doll in the Garden"... I read it when I was a kid in just one day! I was so into it I couldn't put it down-- I remember wanting to get away from the noise of my siblings so I shut myself in the closet and sat on the washer/dryer with a flashlight and didn't stop reading till I finished the book. LOL.

[SpaceAngel401]

After reading Doll in the Garden, whenever I was playing house, and somebody was sick, they had "consumption". Then again, I was a weird kid and read the parenting volume of the Bookshelf for Boys and Girls, especially the illness sections.....my dolls had polio and measles and diptheria a lot, too.

[Pinoikoi]

ohh.. does anyone remember a story about a little kid that moves into a big rambling house and entertains themselves with some dolls that may have been alive? Was that dollhouse murders or something else?

I remember one of the beginning chapters, the child just arrives at the house and has to use a hanky, then doesn't know what to do with it after using it (totally not imp to the plot, but I remember thinking, yeah, you blow your nose in then you're supposed to give it back??)

[becoming]

I loved all of the books mentioned! I may have to try to find them dirt cheap on Amazon.

[TheBluebird]

Ooohhhh, I had forgotten about those books! I'm so glad someone else knew the answer, because it would have driven me nuts, too.

Originally Posted by alaskanteach

ohh.. does anyone remember a story about a little kid that moves into a big rambling house and entertains themselves with some dolls that may have been alive? Was that dollhouse murders or something else?

I remember one of the beginning chapters, the child just arrives at the house and has to use a hanky, then doesn't know what to do with it after using it (totally not imp to the plot, but I remember thinking, yeah, you blow your nose in then you're supposed to give it back??)

That sounds sooooo familiar to me, too. Maybe it was Dollhouse Murders, IDK.