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Rogue
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Karen Lynch
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R379
Discovery Miles 3 790
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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THE FINALE TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING HARBINGER SERIES
Trinity Marrow has lost the battle and her beloved Protector. Even
with both demons and Wardens on her side, Trin may not win the war
against the Harbinger. Bringing Lucifer back to the world to fight
the Harbinger is probably a really, really bad idea, but they're
out of options--and the world's ultimate fallen angel is the only
being powerful enough to impact the outcome. As Trin and Zayne form
a new and more dangerous bond and Lucifer unleashes Hell on earth,
the apocalypse looms and the world teeters on the end of forever.
Win or lose, one thing is certain--nothing will ever be the same.
The Harbinger Series: Storm and Fury Rage and Ruin Grace and Glory
Can't get enough of Zayne? Read about his past in The Dark Elements
series: The Dark Elements Series: Bitter Sweet Love (ebook-only
prequel) White Hot Kiss Stone Cold Touch Every Last Breath
The bestselling author of Good Girls Die First is back with an
entertaining, high-octane and read-in-a-single-sitting new
thriller. Welcome to the reality game show that'll scare you to
death! Have you got what it takes to last the night? Five
contestants must sit tight through the night in dark and dangerous
Umber Gorge caves, haunted by a ghost called the Puckered Maiden.
But is it the malevolent spirit they should fear... or each other?
As the production crew ramps up the frights, secrets start to be
revealed... these teenagers have hidden motives for taking part in
It's Behind You! and could some of them be... murder? It's Most
Haunted meets I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. Perfect for fans
of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus. Knife-edge tension and twists
you won't see coming...
From New York Times bestselling adult author Joseph Fink comes a
wickedly fun middle grade novel about a Halloween-obsessed girl
named Esther Gold, who goes out trick-or-treating for one last
year, only to find her town under the thrall of a mysterious
presence. Esther Gold loves Halloween more than anything in the
world. So she is determined to go trick-or-treating again this year
despite the fact that her parents think she is officially too old.
Esther has it all planned out, from her costume to her
candy-collecting strategy. But when the night rolls around,
something feels . . . off. No one is answering their door. The moon
is an unnatural shade of orange. Strange children wander the
streets, wearing creepy costumes that might not be costumes at all.
And it seems like the only people besides Esther who are awake to
see it all are her best friend, her school bully, and her grown-up
next-door neighbor. Together, this unlikely crew must find a way to
lift the curse that has been placed upon their small town before
it's too late. Because someone is out to make sure Halloween never
comes to an end. And even Esther doesn't want to be trapped in this
night forever.
Billy is a street urchin, pickpocket and petty thief. Mister
Creecher is a monstrous giant of a man who terrifies all he meets.
Their relationship begins as pure convenience. But a bond swiftly
develops between these two misfits as their bloody journey takes
them ever northwards on the trail of their target . . . Victor
Frankenstein. Friendship, trust and betrayal combine to form a
dangerous liaison in this moving and frightening new book from
Chris Priestley.
FOLLOW HIM OR DIE.
When The Speaker posts, his followers must listen ... no matter the
consequences.
Exposed as the masked social media influencer The Speaker by shy misfit
Crystal, Aaron Fortin embarks on an insidious campaign to erase her -
permanently.
Having already committed multiple brutal murders to try and feel some
form of emotion, he charms and recruits Crystal's friends as his latest
loyal followers. Aaron's influence is powerful and wide-reaching, and
so begins his deadliest and most gruesome plan yet.
But has Aaron underestimated quiet Crystal? And can she stop him before
it's too late?
A dark and twisted psychological horror for fans of You, from Bram
Stoker Award-winning author Adam Cesare, adapted from the Audible
Original.
It's an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is
the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award-winner
and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare. After
barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive,
Quinn's first year away at college should be safe and easy. All she
wants is to be normal again. But instead, Quinn finds that her past
won't leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online
conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never
happened. It's a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there's
nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth-not even on
her own campus or in her own dorm room. So when a murderous clown
attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father
in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts
alone are never going to save her. Her only option is to go back
into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the
record straight the only way she knows how. Because when the truth
gets lost in the lies, that's when people start to die. Clown in a
Cornfield was 2020's Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior
Achievement in a Young Adult Novel. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo
Lives is perfectly set to attract old and new fans to the series.
'Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now.'
Patrick Ness Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge, Costa Award winning
author of The Lie Tree, is a fantastically eerie and beautifully
written novel, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie
Medal. The first things to shift were the doll's eyes, the
beautiful grey-green glass eyes. Slowly they swivelled, until their
gaze was resting on Triss's face. Then the tiny mouth moved, opened
to speak. 'What are you doing here?' It was uttered in tones of
outrage and surprise, and in a voice as cold and musical as the
clinking of cups. 'Who do you think you are? This is my family.'
When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is
very wrong. She is insatiably hungry; her sister seems scared of
her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She looks through
her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out.
Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and
terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is quite
literally not herself. In a quest find the truth she must travel
into the terrifying Underbelly of the city to meet a twisted
architect who has dark designs on her family - before it's too late
. . .
Straighten your cape and ready your fangs . . . the ghosts are
biting back. The spookiest story you'll read this year is the
ghoulish follow-up to Alex Foulkes's highly acclaimed Rules for
Vampires. A vampire and a ghost being friends is unheard of. It
makes no sense. The two factions have despised one another for all
eternity. But . . . Leo the vampire and Minna the ghost have
battled together side-by-side, they're sisters-in-arms, they're
best friends, and they'll have to work together to vanquish a new,
deadly threat. Summoned to the Ghostly Realm for the murder of the
Orphanmaster, Leo must complete three tasks to prove herself worthy
of her unlife, each more treacherous than the last. Can Leo
convince the Ghostly Realm of her innocence and earn her freedom,
or will she be trapped there forever? A monstrously funny and
devilishly dark new adventure in Alex Foulkes's Rules for Vampires
series, illustrated throughout by the award-winning Sara Ogilvie,
Ghosts Bite Back is perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and
Skulduggery Pleasant to sink their claws into. Praise for Rules for
Vampires: 'A wickedly fun debut, with a wonderfully strong girl
hero.' Cressida Cowell, Children's Laureate 'Fans of fast-paced,
well-written gothic romps will devour Rules for Vampires.' Phil
Earle, bestselling author of When the Sky Falls 'Deliciously dark,
fangtastically feisty and gloriously gothic!' Laura Ellen Anderson,
author of Amelia Fang 'Brilliant! It's a deadly funny, twisty,
gothic romp with the loveliest vampire. Sara Ogilvie's
illustrations are the perfect match.' Jenny McLachlan, bestselling
author of Land of Roar 'Wonderfully atmospheric, humorous and
touching.' Radiya Hafiza, author of Rumaysa
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Patti Larsen
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R368
Discovery Miles 3 680
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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Reid isn't sure if he's grateful to be alive. He's managed to save
a small group of kids from the hunters, but only by trapping them
all underground without food or water or a way out. If starvation
doesn't kill them, thirst will. Still, they are out of the hunter's
reach and that's something. Reid refuses to stop trying, even when
the kids find out they aren't alone in the mine after all.
Volgens Clayton se pa en sy nuwe verloofde is hy 'n
probleemkind. Hy word na 'n eksklusiewe rehabilitasiekamp vir
tieners gestuur, maar dis nie net die streng sekuriteit en
geheimsinnige personeel wat aandui iets is nie pluis nie.
Clayton is vreesbevange vir die digte bome wat die kamp
omring en snags sluip vreemde gediertes in die woud rond. En
dan begin van die tieners verdwyn . . .
Gryp ’n flitslig, trek die beddegoed oor jou kop en verdiep jou in Rowley Jefferson se verwronge verbeelding , wat onverwags ook skreeusnaaks is. Jy sal jou vasloop in zombies, vampiere , spoke en veel meer in hierdie komies vreesaanjaende verhale.
Rowley se spookstories sal jou dalk laat lag, maar pasop dalk sal jy met die lig aan wil slaap
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Lord Loss
(Paperback)
Darren Shan
3
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R235
R216
Discovery Miles 2 160
Save R19 (8%)
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Ships in 9 - 17 working days
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The first book in the Demonata, the demonic symphony in ten parts
by multi-million-copy bestselling horror writer Darren Shan... When
Grubbs Grady first encounters Lord Loss and his evil minions, he
learns three things: * the world is vicious, * magic is possible, *
demons are real. He thinks that he will never again witness such a
terrible night of death and darkness. ...He is wrong.
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