The dark night was strangely quiet. The moon had disappeared behind the clouds, and there were absolutely no sounds. Not just quiet, but total silence. Then the lonesome cry of a whippoorwill broke the silence. Or was it really a whippoorwill!

A strange ghost-like figure appears during the night as the twins and their cousin are camping in the Ozark Mountains above Moore's Lake near Heber Springs, Arkansas. Akiela, the last of a mysterious tribe of Native Americans, has come to warn the young adventurers about evil men in the area of the lake. He seems to be able to appear and disappear at will. He is very tall, and pale, almost deathlike...his long white hair flowing to his narrow shoulders. His eyes burn with agitation and displeasure at what is happening to his beloved mountains.

Following the massive success of the Demonata series, Darren Shan is back where it all started - telling the life story of the vampire Larten Crepsley. Spanning centuries and continents, taking in sea voyages, murder, war and love, this is the epic, bloodsoaked tale of a vampire who started out a nobody...and ended up changing the world forever. When Larten escapes the terrible workhouse in which he toils, he doesn't know that he is running from an early death...into another kind of transformation. After meeting the mysterious vampire Seba Nile while sheltering for the night in a crypt, Larten finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of the vampire Clan. As he travels and learns, Larten finds himself enjoying the adventure he has always dreamed of, seeing a world beyond any he suspected in his poverty-stricken youth. But Larten begins to discover something else, too. Much like death, becoming a vampire is something you can't come back from...

When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family. A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod's life, from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?

When the body of local legend Peter "Stinky Pete" Weldon is found in the middle of the night on the Dell Road bridge, no one in the small town of Billins, Illinois, is surprised that their local mystery girl is at the crime scene. The only problem? Elizabeth Finney has been dead for more than forty years.

Jessica Lyons has been having strange dreams filled with bridges and ghosts. When she learns that Stinky Pete was her father, she knows she has to return to her birthplace to face the legends, cryptic history, and restless spirits of both the town and her own family.

Joining Jessica in a paranormal quest for the truth is "Chicago Tribune" freelance writer Connie Danci, along with a motley crew of unlikely allies. Together, they take on every obstacle, confront every enemy-living and dead-and feel every shiver up their spines. They forge unexpected bonds and make unimaginable discoveries about the infamous house (and its spooky occupants) at the end of Dell Road as they finally crack the mysteries that have haunted Billins since the Civil War.

From the creator of the horror video game sensation Five Nights at Freddy's comes this pulse-pounding graphic novel adaptation of the bestselling trilogy's thrilling conclusion! What really happened to Charlie? It's the question that John can't seem to shake, along with the nightmares of Charlie's seeming death and miraculous reappearance. John just wants to forget the whole terrifying saga of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but the past isn't so easily buried. Meanwhile, there's a new animatronic pizzeria opening in Hurricane, along with a new rash of kidnappings that feel all too familiar. Bound together by their childhood loss, John reluctantly teams up with Jessica, Marla and Carlton to solve the case and find the missing children. Along the way, they'll unravel the twisted mystery of what really happened to Charlie, and the haunting legacy of her father's creations. Told through delightfully scary artwork from artist Diana Camero With even more horror than ever before Fans won't want to miss this graphic novel adaptation straight from the mind of Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon.

Do you dare to read the Tales of Terror? A stunning and commercial new paperback package for this chilling collection of short stories, illustrated throughout by David Roberts and featuring a gloriously creepy new cover! Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house and his regular visits from his nephew give him the opportunity to retell some of the most frightening stories he knows. But as the stories unfold, another even more spine-tingling narrative emerges, one that is perhaps the most frightening of all. Uncle Montague's tales of terror, it transpires, are not so much works of imagination as dreadful, lurking memories. Memories of an earlier time in which Uncle Montague lived a very different life to his present solitary existence... Can't get enough spooky stories? Crack open the other thrilling titles in the Tales of Terror series: Tales of Terror from the Black Ship and Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth!