V. C. Andrews's Flowers in the Attic tells of four children who are taken back to their grandparents by their mother after their father dies. Their grandfather will not accept the children, and they are hidden away in an attic until one of them dies and the others reveal themselves. Stephen King's The Shining is about a family of three who go to live in an isolated resort during the winter off-season. The father wants to write a book, but the ghosts of previous residents haunt him, his wife, and his son. Stephen King's Pet Cemetery is set in a small rural community, where some pets are buried in a different kind of hallowed ground and then brought back to life. When a man buries his son there, he starts a chain of horrible events. Dianna Wynne Jones's The Ogre Downstairs is about three...