Children's book about ghosts

[meatina]

This is a book I read at primary school in the UK, so would have been published before 1991 as that was the year I left the school.
It was a slim hardback book about ghosts, I think it was just called "Ghosts", and the cover was blue with a shrouded skeleton with glowing eyes on. I think it was published by Scholastic, but that might be my memory playing ticks on me.
Pages I remember include these pink creatures that lived in graveyards, that were fatal to look at, so someone put mirrors up to kill them, and an account of the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. (Clocks stopping at the time of his death as a ghostly train went through a station?)
It isn't the recently republished Usborne World of the Unknown "Ghosts" book, but it is very similar in style.

Comments

[swiftheart]

are you thinking of "Phantom Encounters"? i have it on my bookshelf and it immediately came to mind when i read your post.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1220535.Phantom_Encounters

[meatina]

It's not that one - this book was aimed at a much younger audience.
Though the Time Life one does look interesting, so thank you!

[swiftheart]

aw man, that's too bad! i'll keep churning my brain, i remember something similar, the only other idea that comes to mind is something like "Encyclopedia Horrorifica". i know that one IS a Scholastic book, so maybe try going from there through recommended links? :)