THE GUT-WRECHING SEQUEL TO 'CIRQUE DU FREAK' AND 'THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT'

Darren Shan, the Vampire's assistant, gets a taste of the city when he leaves the Cirque du Freak with Evra and Mr Crepsley – but so it seems, does someone else. When corpses are discovered – corpses drained of blood – Darren and Evra are compelled to confront a foul creature of the night who may be the end of them all.

Has Darren made a fatal mistake which will cost him the lives of his friends? And can he escape the lure of the Tunnels of Blood?

PRAISE FOR 'CIRQUE DU FREAK'

'. . .a plot full of twists and turns which leaves the reader hungry for more.'
J. K. ROWLING, 'author of the Harry Potter books'

Every home has its secrets...For Nora, the truth starts to be revealed on Halloween night.
It's been a bad few months for Nora Wilson. There was a huge fire in her family's apartment this summer, and her parents have been acting superweird ever since. They won't let her or her brother out of the apartment anymore, not even to go to school. So when Nora's parents say she can go trick-or-treating on Halloween, Nora is thrilled. And she's even more thrilled to make a new friend, Caitlin, who just moved into the apartment building. Caitlin knows nothing about what happened to Nora's family, but she does seem to know a lot about the ghosts that are rumored to haunt the building. As she shares these ghost stories with Nora, Nora can't help but be chilled by them. Are they hitting just a little too close to home?
This spooky story is rated a Level 4 on the Creep-o-Meter.

"Lovingly written and painted, this strange and silly book will delight everyone who reads it. The grown-up people who read it may find it confusing. But young people, I think, will understand that in its strangeness and silliness it mirrors our own strange and silly world." -Eleanor Davis, author of Stinky and How to Be Happy Thomas is a friend to all plants. He even has a cactus collection! One morning, he discovers his mother has been replaced by a ferna monstrous fern! What happened? Is this the start of a plant revolt? Did the fern eat her? Where did this fern come from, anyway? Will it eat his father too? And then Thomas? That Night, A Monster . . . is a beautifully painted all-ages graphic novel exploring imagination: its power and its dark side. Marzena "Marzi" Sowa is a Polish graphic novelist living in France. She was born in 1979 in the small industrial city Stalowa Wola. She left her country in 2001 and settled in Bordeaux. Marzi, her graphic memoir about childhood in communist Poland, was published by Vertigo in 2011. The book has been translated in several languages. Marzi loves dictionaries, is afraid of spiders, and is crazy about skateboarding and cheesecake. Berenika Kolomycka is a cartoonist, sculptor, and illustrator. In 2011, she received the Grand Prix at the Lodz International Comics Festival. She lives in Poland.

The Spook's Curse is the second book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide! 'By now the dark has noticed you and will be trying to hunt you down . . .' It's the job of the Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, to protect the County from the dark. But deep in the catacombs beneath Priestown lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat - the Bane. As they prepare to battle it, yet another deadly enemy emerges to threaten Tom and his master.

SUMMER 1914. When Fran unearths a bone in the garden of Longbarrow House on the same afternoon that Leo breaks his leg, it must surely be just a coincidence. But Fran can't shake the uneasy feeling that the events are somehow connected, and there is a shift in the atmosphere that leaves her troubled and anxious. Roped into keeping wheelchair-bound Leo company, Fran is forced to listen to his foolish theories about the looming threat of war in Europe. But as the pair start to uncover more secrets buried beneath the garden, they dredge up threatening shadows of the future, and Fran begins to fear that Leo's dire predictions might be coming true ... Queen of Historical Fiction, Emma Carroll, makes her Barrington Stoke debut with a powerful, evocative, and spine-tingling story of childhood on the brink of war. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant or dyslexic readers aged 8+

When he was alive, Mr. Wilkerson was an ill-tempered, disagreeable, sour, and impatient old man. Once he died, he got better.
But not much.
Now he is back and very, very hungry.
When Jack and his grandma move into the old Wilkerson house, they find out just how hungry, and why.
At least they think they know. It has something to do with pie.
A perfect pie.

Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery--a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob's grandfather, Abe.

Clues to Abe's double-life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, secrets long hidden in plain sight. And Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited--truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine's time loop.

Now, the stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom--a world with few ymbrynes, or rules--that none of them understand. New wonders, and dangers, await in this brilliant next chapter for Miss Peregrine's peculiar children. Their story is again fully illustrated by haunting vintage photographs, but with a striking addition for this all-new, multi-era American adventure--full color.

Soon to be a major Netflix series! Lockwood & Co. might be the smallest (some might say shambolic) Psychic Detection Agency in London. But its three agents - Lockwood, Lucy and George - are exceptional Talents. And they get results. When an outbreak of ghostly phenomena grows to terrifying levels in Chelsea, Scotland Yard is left baffled. Even more baffling is that Lockwood & Co appear to have been excluded from the huge team of Agents investigating the Chelsea Outbreak. Surely this is the perfect chance for them to show once and for all that they're actually the best in town? Well, that's if they can put aside their personal differences for long enough to march into action with their rapiers, salt and iron . . . Ghouls and spectres, thrills and tension in this third instalment in Jonathan Stroud's bestselling series. 'Stroud is a genius' - Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series.

Het jy senuwees van staal? Is jy nie bang om laatnag alleen in die bed te le en lees terwyl die wind buite waai en die takke teen jou ruite krap nie? Skrik jy nie vir stories oor gedaantes wat snags in die donker rondsluip nie? Dan is hierdie net die boek vir jou! Hierdie splinternuwe versameling bevat nog 13 verhale wat jou bloed yskoud sal laat word. So, maak toe die vensters, klim in jou bed... en maak gereed om die gedaantes te ontmoet wat snags in die donker ronddwaal.

Dear Reader,

Before you throw this awful book to the ground and run as far away from it as possible, you should probably know why. This book is the only one which describes every last detail of the Baudelaire children's miserable stay at Heimlich Hospital, which makes it one of the most dreadful books in the world.

There are many pleasant things to read about, but this books contains none of them. Within its pages are such burdensome details as misleading newspaper headlines, unnecessary surgery, an intercom system, anesthesia, heart-shaped balloons, and some very startling news about such things.

I have sworn to research this story, and to write it down as best I can, so I should know that this book is something best left on the ground, where you undoubtedly found it.

With all due respect,

Darren Shan, the vampire's assistant, gets a taste of the city when he leaves the Cirque Du Freak with Evra the snake-boy and Mr. Crepsley. When corpses are discovered drained of blood, Darren and Evra are compelled to confront a foul creature of the night who may prove to be the end of them all.

Part ghost story, part Nordic mystery - a creepy and chilling tale steeped in Norse myth, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Michelle Paver's DARK MATTER.

Martha can tell things about a person just by touching their clothes, as if their emotions and memories have been absorbed into the material. It started the day she fell from the tree at her grandma's cabin and became blind in one eye.

Determined to understand her strange ability, Martha sets off to visit her grandmother, Mormor - only to discover Mormor is dead, a peculiar boy is in her cabin and a terrifying creature is on the loose.

Then the spinning wheel starts creaking, books move around and terror creeps in . . .

Set in the remote snows of contemporary Norway, THE TWISTED TREE is a ghost story that twists and turns - and never takes you quite where you'd expect.

Look out for the original series--starring Peyton List, Brent Rivera, Liana Liberato, Ajiona Alexus, and Dylan Sprayberry--now streaming on Hulu! The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets Riverdale in these fast-paced and deliciously creepy novels about an innocent game that turns deadly. It was supposed to be a game... Junior year is shaping up to be the best of McKenna Brady's life. For the first time, she's hanging out with the popular, gorgeous Olivia and her friends. But everything changes the night of Olivia's birthday sleepover. New girl Violet makes up elaborate, creepily specific stories about the violent ways the friends will die. It's unsettling but seems harmless...until Olivia dies a week later--exactly as Violet predicted. Violet skyrockets to popularity, seamlessly taking Olivia's place at their high school. McKenna is convinced Olivia's death was more than a coincidence. As she investigates, McKenna becomes entangled in a force of evil much stronger than she'd bargained for. Can she cut this curse off at the source before more of her friends die? This spine-tingling paperback boxed set includes: Light as a Feather Cold as Marble Silent as the Grave

"The House of Night" series is set in a world very much like our own, except in sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird's world, vampyres have always existed. In this first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampyre - that is, if she makes it through the Change. Not all of those who are chosen do. It's tough to begin a new life, away from her parents and friends, and on top of that, Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. But she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers. When she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite club, is misusing her Goddess-given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny - with a little help from her new vampyre friends.

The final dramatic conclusion to Darren Shan's international phenomenon, The Demonata. Expect the unexpected... Beranabus and Dervish are gone. Bec has formed an unholy alliance with Lord Loss. Kernel is blind, held on Earth against his will. Grubbs is mad with grief and spinning out of control. The demons are crossing. The Disciples are falling. The Shadow is waiting. Welcome to the end.

Trudchen grew up hearing Odette's stories of a monster slaying and a magician's curse. But now that Tru's older, she's starting to wonder if her older sister's tales were just comforting lies, especially because there's nothing fantastic about her own life-permanently injured and in constant pain from a childhood illness. In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase full of weapons and a promise to rescue Tru from the monsters on their way to attack her. But it's Od who seems haunted by something. And when the sisters' search for their mother leads them to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish beast that's wreaking havoc in the mid-Atlantic states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sister-despite their dark pasts and ordinary appearances-might indeed have magic after all.

'Vampire Mountain'
The Next Gruesome Encounter for the Vampire's assistant

Darren Shan and Mr Crepsley embark on a long and dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world, where courage and endurance mean the difference between success and failure. But they face more than the cold on Vampire mountain – the vampaneze have been there before them…

Will a meeting with the vampire princes restore Darren's human side, or turn him further towards the darkness? Only one thing is certain, Darren's initiation into the vampire clan is more deadly then he can ever have imagined.

The next Darren Shan trilogy scorches into life – continuing in 'The Trials of Darren Shan' and concluding with 'The Vampire Prince'.

Zombie Attack

When brain-gobbling zombies invade, a sleep-over at Zack Clarke's house quickly turns into a Level-3 creep-over. The undead have infested the streets, filling the air with deathly moans and the stench of rotting flesh.

Meet the Zombie Chasers:

Zack: His house is a wreck, his sister's a zombie, and he's stolen his mom's Volvo. He's totally going to be grounded if he survives the night. . . .

Rice: He's studied The Zombie Survival Guide, but is he prepared to fight the living dead?

Madison: She seriously cannot believe her best friend has become a zombie and left her alone with these dweebs

They're on a mission to save the world, but first they have to survive their flesh-eating, half-dead neighbors--and one another. Can the Zombie Chasers make it out alive?

I know it's ridiculous. Lights can't whisper. But I swear I heard a voice calling to me. It sounded like static to begin with, but then it came into focus, a single word repeated over and over. Softly, slyly, seductively, insistently.
"Come..."
The Disciples are being manipulated by beings older than time. Only Kernel Fleck knows that something is wrong. But he is in the grip of a creature who cares nothing for the fate of humanity. Voices are calling to him from the darkness and he's powerless to resist.
Kernel has already been to hell and back. Now he's about to go further.

From the acclaimed author of Nightbooks and The Thickety comes a spooky series, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Adam Gidwitz, and Stranger Things!

Cordelia Liu knew Shadow School was going to be different. Still, she didn’t expect the school grounds to be filled with ghosts.

Cordelia soon realizes she’s not the only one who can see the ghosts; her new friend Benji can too. Together with super-smart Agnes, the trio are determined to find out why the ghosts are there, and whether there’s a way to set them free.

But the school was created with more sinister intentions, and someone is willing to go to extreme lengths to ensure that the ghosts remain trapped forever.

J. A. White's Nightbooks has been praised as "equally twisting and terrifying" in a School Library Journal starred review. Kirkus added: “A thrilling tale of magic that is just scary enough.” Middle grade readers will love J. A. White's Shadow School series as well!

Someone - or something - is inviting ordinary kids to HorrorLand and trapping them there. But they're not the only guests of the terrifying theme park where nightmares come to life. Slappy the Dummy, Monster Blood, and other vile villains have joined the terror trip, too. And HorrorLand is about to add one more old fiend to the guest list: a cursed mummy!