At Christmastime in 1944, while staying with disagreeable cousins in New York State because her father is in Europe fighting in World War II, 11-year-old Abby discovers that her relatives' old house is haunted by the ghost of a girl from the Civil War era.

Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time travel, the undead and other imaginative elements of science fiction and fantasy. This encyclopedia catalogs appearances of the strange and the supernatural found in the war stories of film, television, novels, short stories, pulp fiction, comic books and video and role-playing games. Categories explore themes of mythology, science fiction, alternative history, superheroes and "Weird War."

Bibliographic information, grade level, and annotations for nearly 7,500 fantasy books for grades 3-12 are given. The introduction discusses the history of fantasy, and awards presented to fantasy titles are listed.