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Books > Children's Fiction & Fun > Adventure Stories > Horror & Ghost Stories
The fifth and sixth books in the re-launch of R.L. Stine's Fear Street, now in one volume.
The Dead Boyfriend
When Caitlin starts seeing Colin, she throws herself into her first real relationship with fervor. She ignores friends who warn her that Colin may be a phony and that she is taking the whole thing too seriously. When Caitlin approaches Colin with another girl, she snaps. Everything goes red. When she comes back to her senses, Colin is dead―and she has killed him. But if Colin is dead, how is he staring at her across a crowded party?
Give Me A K-I-L-L
There are rumors that lack of funds may mean the end of cheerleading at Shadyside. That would be a shame for Gretchen Page, who has just transferred from her old school, where she was a star. There’s only one girl in her way―rich, spoiled Devra Dalby, who is also trying out for the one open slot. The competition to join the squad is fierce―and it ends in murder. Will Gretchen make the squad―if there's even a squad anymore―or will she end up dead?
Marzana and her best friend are bored. Even though they live in a
notorious city where normal rules do not apply, nothing interesting
ever happens to them. Nothing, that is, until Marzana's parents are
recruited to help solve an odd crime, and she realises that this
could be the excitement she's been waiting for. She assembles a
group of kid detectives with special skills - including the ghost
of a ship captain's daughter - and together, they explore hidden
passageways, navigate architecture that changes overnight, and try
to unravel the puzzle of who the kidnappers are - and where they're
hiding. But will they beat the deadline for a ransom that's
impossible to pay? Legendary smugglers, suspicious teachers, and
some scary bad guys are just a few of the adults the crew must
circumvent while discovering hidden truths about their families and
themselves in this smart, richly imagined tale.
Drip...drip...drip... In five days, she will come... Roberta
'Bobbie' Rowe is not the kind of person who believes in ghosts. A
Halloween dare at her ridiculously spooky boarding school is no big
deal, especially when her best friend Naya and cute local boy Caine
agree to join in too. They are ordered to summon the legendary
ghost of Bloody Mary: say her name five times in front of a
candlelit mirror, and she shall appear... But, surprise surprise,
nothing happens. Or does it? Next morning, Bobbie finds a message
on her bathroom mirror - five days - but what does it mean? And who
left it there? Things get increasingly weird and more terrifying
for Bobbie and Naya, until it becomes all too clear that Bloody
Mary was indeed called from the afterlife that night, and she is
definitely not a friendly ghost. Bobbie, Naya and Caine are now in
a race against time before their five days are up and Mary comes
for them, as she has come for countless others before... A truly
spine-chilling yet witty horror from shortlisted 'Queen of Teen'
author Juno Dawson.
This ghost story gave me chill after chill. It will haunt you. --
R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps Do you know what it feels like to
be forgotten? On a cold winter night, Iris and her best friend,
Daniel, sneak into a clearing in the woods to play in the freshly
fallen snow. There, Iris carefully makes a perfect snow angel--only
to find the crumbling gravestone of a young girl, Avery Moore,
right beneath her. Immediately, strange things start to happen to
Iris: She begins having vivid nightmares. She wakes up to find her
bedroom window wide open, letting in the snow. She thinks she sees
the shadow of a girl lurking in the woods. And she feels the pull
of the abandoned grave, calling her back to the clearing...
Obsessed with figuring out what's going on, Iris and Daniel start
to research the area for a school project. They discover that
Avery's grave is actually part of a neglected and forgotten Black
cemetery, dating back to a time when White and Black people were
kept separate in life--and in death. As Iris and Daniel learn more
about their town's past, they become determined to restore Avery's
grave and finally have proper respect paid to Avery and the others
buried there. But they have awakened a jealous and demanding ghost,
one that's not satisfied with their plans for getting recognition.
One that is searching for a best friend forever--no matter what the
cost. The Forgotten Girl is both a spooky original ghost story and
a timely and important storyline about reclaiming an abandoned
segregated cemetery. A harrowing yet empowering tale reminding us
that the past is connected to the present, that every place and
every person has a story, and that those stories deserve to be
told. -- Renee Watson, New York Times bestselling author of Piecing
Me Together
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Alive
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Chandler Baker
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Discovery Miles 4 470
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After the worst Halloween ever, Carly-Beth assumed that nothing
could be scarier than a drooling rubber mask with a mind of its
own. But now Carly-Beth has discovered something far scarier: an
entire house full of haunted masks. If Carly-Beth can survive the
night, even a terrifying amusement park like HorrorLand might seem
like a vacation. Then again, maybe not.
From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials
Sequence, comes the third installment in a thrilling sci-fi noir
series set in 2050 Los Angeles. Even in a world where technology
connects everyone's minds, it would seem that some secrets can
still remain hidden. For all the mysteries teen hacker Marisa
Carneseca has solved, one has always eluded her: When she was two
years old, she was in a car accident in which she lost her arm and
a mob boss's wife, Zenaida de Maldonado, lost her life. No one can
tell her what she was doing in that car, or how it led to the feud
between the Carnesecas and the Maldonados. The secrets from the
past rise violently to the surface when Zenaida's freshly severed
hand shows up at the scene of a gangland shooting. If Zenaida is-or
was-still alive, it means there's even more about Marisa's past
that she doesn't know. And when everyone from Los Angeles gangs to
the world's largest genetic engineering firms becomes involved in
the case, it's clear there's more happening under the surface than
anyone cares to admit. The truth is out there, and Marisa will have
to thread together lost friends, corporate assassins, a gang lord's
digital brain, and what might be a literal ghost from the past in
order to find it.
A figure wearing a white mask swoops down a deserted hospital
corridor towards a quarantined patient. Covered in black sores and
writhing in agony the patient can't be saved by modern medicine.
But then, the masked figure is not a modern doctor... Bodies are
being discovered all over London, all marked with the same black
sores - it seems a contagious disease is spreading across the city.
But when witnesses all report seeing the same mysterious masked
figure it seems there's something more sinister going on. This is a
case for CRYPT: a team of elite teenage agents who use their extra
sensory perception and arsenal of high-tech gadgets to investigate
crimes that the police can't solve.
The book is about, among other things: the strongest boy in the
world, a talking cockatoo, a faulty mind reader, a beautiful
bearded lady and a nervous magician, an old museum, and a shrunken
head. Blessed with extraordinary abilities, orphans Philippa, Sam,
and Thomas have grown up happily in Dumfrey's Dime Museum of
Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders. Philippa is a powerful mentalist,
Sam is the world's strongest boy, and Thomas can squeeze himself
into a space no bigger than a bread box. The children live happily
with museum owner Mr. Dumfrey, alongside other misfits. But when a
fourth child, Max, a knife-thrower, joins the group, it sets off an
unforgettable chain of events. When the museum's Amazonian shrunken
head is stolen, the four are determined to get it back. But their
search leads them to a series of murders and an explosive secret
about their pasts.
The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, rid the county of
witches, ghosts, boggarts, and other creatures of the dark. And
there's some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown. Deep in
the catacombs lurks a creature the Spook has never been able to
defeat; a force so evil that the whole county is in danger. The
Bane!
But the Bane is not their only enemy. The Quisitor arrives,
intent on hunting down anyone who meddles with the dark. Thomas
Ward and the Spook must prepare for the battle of their lives.
It's the closing night at the Tempest Theaters, the only remaining
business in a shuttered shopping complex. The last moviegoers have
left, and Jo Edwards and her seven coworkers just want to get
through their final shift and be done with this job. But as the
work winds down, the tension builds. One of them has the keys to
the locked lobby doors and isn't letting them leave. And when the
lights go out, it becomes clear why-his rage has driven him to kill
someone in the crew. Now it's up to Jo and her coworkers to escape,
and their only way out is through the dark, sprawling complex, with
boarded-up exits and dead security alarms. But it's also a perfect
hunting ground for the one who wants them all dead, and who will
kill again and again before the night is over.
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.
The Spook's Sacrifice is the sixth book in Joseph Delaney's
terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold
worldwide! 'Witches, Mam? We've made an alliance with witches?' As
the Spook's apprentice, Tom's first duty is to protect the County
from the dark. But now Mam needs his help in her homeland of Greece
to rise up against one of the Old Gods, the Ordeen. But what secret
is Mam keeping from Tom? And what sacrifices must be made in the
battle against the dark?
For years, the human and vampire residents of Morganville, Texas,
have managed to co-exist in peace. But now that the threat to the
vampires has been defeated, the human residents are learning that
the gravest danger they face is the enemy within...
Thanks to the eradication of the parasitic creatures known as the
draug, the vampires of Morganville have been freed of their usual
constraints. With the vampires indulging their every whim, the
town's human population is determined to hold on to their lives by
taking up arms. But college student Claire Danvers isn't about to
take sides, considering she has ties to both the humans and the
vampires.
To make matters worse, a television show comes to Morganville
looking for ghosts, just as vampire and human politics collide.
Now, Claire and her friends have to figure out how to keep the
peace without ending up on the nightly news...or worse.
The amazing manga retelling of Darren Shan's international
best-selling vampire saga, with illustrations by Japanese artist
Takahiro Arai. Darren joins the vampire, Mr Crepsley, as his
assistant and they return to the Cirque du Freak. There, Darren
makes friends with the snake-boy, Evra Von (who knows what Darren
has become). He also meets a local boy, Sam, and RV, an eco-warrior
and animal lover (who do not). Darren begins to enjoy his life
among the Cirque performers and starts coming to terms with his
half-vampire existence. But he defiantly refuses to drink human
blood and tries desperately to cling on to the part of him which is
still human. Then disaster strikes, and Darren has to make a
terrible choice... The stunning illustrations and manga format give
a new dimension to this ever-popular vampire saga, available for
the first time in translation in the UK. This will be a must-have
for Shan fans and manga aficionados alike.
A Netflix animated series - Autumn 2021! Reader: beware. Warlocks
with dark spells, hunters with deadly aim, and bakers with ovens
retrofitted for cooking children lurk within these pages. But if
you dare, turn the page and learn the true story of Hansel and
Gretel - the story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible
houses and outwitted witches. Come on in. It may be frightening,
it's certainly bloody, and it's definitely not for the faint of
heart. 'Gidwitz manages to balance the grisly violence of the
original Grimms' fairy tales with a wonderful sense of humor and
narrative voice. Check it out!' Rick Riordan 'Unlike any children's
book I've ever read. [It] holds up to multiple readings, like the
classic I think it will turn out to be' New York Times 'An
audacious debut that's wicked smart and wicked funny' Publisher's
Weekly, starred review 'Addictively compelling' School Library
Journal, starred review
"Teens will savor the vivid portrayal of ghost exorcism as well as
the action-packed adventure, romance, and drama of this tale... An
exciting, unforgettable drama that echoes Stephen King infused with
Japanese culture" - School Library Journal The breathtaking and
haunting companion to The Girl from the Well, from the highly
acclaimed author of the Bone Witch trilogy The darkness will find
you. Seventeen-year-old Tark knows what it is to be powerless. But
Okiku changed that. A restless spirit who ended life as a victim
and started death as an avenger, she's groomed Tark to destroy the
wicked. But when darkness pulls them deep into Aokigahara, known as
Japan's suicide forest, Okiku's justice becomes blurred, and Tark
is the one who will pay the price... Suspenseful and creepy, The
Suffering is perfect for readers looking for Spooky books for young
adults Japanese occult and horror novels Ghost story books for
teens East Asian folklorePraise for The Girl from the Well "There's
a superior creep factor that is pervasive in every lyrical word of
Chupeco's debut, and it's perfect for teens who enjoy traditional
horror movies...the story is solidly scary and well worth the
read." - Booklist "Chupeco makes a powerful debut with this
unsettling ghost story...told in a marvelously disjointed fashion
from Okiku's numbers-obsessed point of view, this story unfolds
with creepy imagery and an intimate appreciation for Japanese
horror, myth, and legend." - Publishers Weekly STARRED review "It
hit all the right horror notes with me, and I absolutely recommend
it to fans looking for a good scare. " - The Book Smugglers
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