The Black Heart Crypt

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2011 by Chris Grabenstein

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Grabenstein, Chris.

The black heart crypt / Chris Grabenstein. — 1st ed.

p. cm. — (The haunted mystery series; bk. 4)

Summary: A 200-year-old ghost inhabits a living ancestor in order to take revenge on eleven-year-old Zack and his family.

eISBN: 978-0-375-89987-4

[1. Ghosts—Fiction. 2. Demonology—Fiction. 3. Revenge—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.G7487 Bl 2011 [Fic]—dc22 2011001939

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