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In this section you will find over 3.861 exciting and thrilling books about Horror. At Tales we have all types of good Horror books for each individual to enjoy, whether you want some of the classics, new or children’s horror books. We all need a little scare in our lives, to learn how to deal with the real world and acknowledge the fact that it is indeed okay to be scared. Scary stories also teach kids that Monsters are terrifying, but at the same time they’ll have an understanding of scary situations, and learn how to cope with them. Take a chance and let the mystery begin here.
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  • by Scholastic
    £9.49

    Fans will not want to miss the very first official guide to PIGGY!Full of tips, tricks, lore and more, this guide has everythingyou need to survive!

  • by Terrance Crawford
    £6.49

    Mystery, mayhem -- try to survive the terrifying world of PIGGY inthis original novel based on the fan-favorite videogame!There is a mystery to be solved, keys to be found, and an evil pigto escape!

  • by Riley Cain
    £12.49

    'You will sleep with the dead, Benjamin Blake!'A witch's whispered promise. A book of wicked spells. A band of rebellious vampires, and a battle to control dark magic.Rural Essex, 1645 - a time of sorcery and civil war. When 15-year-old Benjamin Blake falls victim to a witch's fatal prophesy, death comes creeping. The only chance for survival comes with a price: The Curse of Silver and Sunlight. Banished from the daytime world forever, Benjamin joins vampires Juno, Darach, Varney and Brill, as they flee the clutches of evil enchanter Adefina Corvus. Hopes of freedom lie in a stolen book of spells, ready to offer power to whoever can decipher its coded text. None but Adefina has ever succeeded. The grimoire's secrets must be revealed if Benjamin and his friends are to escape England's most wicked witch.Benjamin is about to open its ghastly pages.But Adefina is coming, murdering her way back to her precious book.The chase is on!

  • by Lanne Garrett
    £14.49

    Fear nothing, trust no one...The bells toll over Whitwick.The Gate has opened.The fog fills the streets.The Fae have come.The screaming has started.The Taking has begun.The Gate closes once again.They have their Crow.In Whitwick Gates, where every mortal child faces the risk of almost certain death at the hands of Fae, Perdi is named the next Crow, a sacrifice to Elphame. But once inside the Sidhe, the Fae will question if they've taken the wrong Crow.

  • by Lyndsay Budge
    £13.49 - 19.49

  • by James A. Cusumano
    £15.49

  • by H. F. Askwith
    £7.99

    And Then There Were None meets The Inheritance Games, with a heavy dash of The Woman in Black, in this gloriously gothic YA mystery-thriller.When seventeen-year-old Helena is sent to be a governess at Archfall Manor - a beautiful but crumbling manor house, perched at the edge of a causeway in the North Sea - she feels confident she will know how to deal with the esteemed but eccentric Cauldwell family who own it. But it quickly becomes clear that the Cauldwells are hiding more than Helena could ever have dreamed of.A series of sinister events come to a head the night of a great storm, which washes away the only path back to the mainland - and reveals in the morning that there has been a murder... quickly followed by another.Suspicions and paranoia quickly run rampant. Someone has dark motivations in mind - and a killer's instinct to enact them.But the Cauldwell's aren't the only ones keeping secrets. Helena has a very important one of her own - and soon she begins to wonder whether forces beyond her control might be willing her to enact her own dark plan . . .Just how far will she go to get what she deserves? Praise for A Dark Inheritance: "A powerful, heart-racing story of family, fate, and writing your own destiny. Intricately plotted and luminously written - I loved it" Laura Steven, author of The Society for Soulless Girls

  • by Walt Disney
    £7.99

    Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Halloween classic.Relive Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with this stunning collectible novelisation, adapted by New York Times bestselling author Megan Shepherd. Jack Skellington, the beloved Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, has grown tired of his home's annual scaring routines and longs for something new. So when he and his loyal dog, Zero, discover a series of doors in the Hinterlands leading to other holiday towns, he can't help but explore - and quickly becomes enamoured with Christmas Town, a place filled with jolly laughs, merry elves, and plenty of presents. Jack shares all of his findings with the rest of Halloween Town, and together, they devise a plan to run Christmas themselves. But not all tricks can be turned into holiday treats, and Jack's dream to organise the best Christmas ever may just turn into a nightmare. Alongside friends like the rag doll Sally, can Jack find his true purpose as a holiday king?Also available: Long Live the Pumpkin Queen

  • by Arianna Courson
    £16.99 - 18.49

  • by Siân Mole
    £10.49

    Jess's brother Daniel is dead, and her dad is gone. And it's all her fault. Jess's world continues to tumble around her when her mum moves them both to Clanderra Hall to take a housekeeping job. Here, Jess encounters the formidable Mrs. Sharpe and her list of rules: Be quiet, stay away, and definitely don't go into the attic. As the house reveals its secrets, Jess meets the other residents of Clanderra Hall... residents that not everyone can see. Soon Jess finds herself at the mercy of Millie, trapped forever as the ghost of a young girl. Sensing Jess's despair, Millie becomes desperate for Jess to join her and will go to any lengths for the two of them to be together. Forever. Realising the danger she is in, Jess must find a way to forgive herself and to help free Millie before she is trapped for eternity too.

  • by Sumeet Kumar
    £10.49

    Friendship is not a curse, it is a blessing, but there are some people who by linking it to religion and caste, are giving the identity of every such charity in their own right, and because of that identity, our whole life has become a poison, and today jealousy,hate ,games of mind , also comes to the fore in our minds.you can also buy his book from NOTION PRESS ,ABE BOOKS ,IMUSIC IN ,FLIPKART ,AMAZON ,KINDLE ,INSTANT READ LIKE EBOOK ,KINDLE ,GOOGLE ,INTERNATIONAL SITES AND MANY MORE.

  • by Sanchari Bhattacharya
    £12.49

    This book contains three horror stories written by me . My followers and fans will get to know some new thrilling and horryfying stories from my end.

  • by Satoshi Kitamura
    £6.49 - 9.49

  • by Bram Stoker
    £23.49

    Bram Stoker: Dracula | Neuerscheinung 2023, neu editiert, mit zahlreichen erläuternden Fußnoten | Jonathan Harker, ein aufstrebender junger Rechtsanwalt aus London, wird für einen lukrativen Auftrag nach Transylvanien (Siebenbürgen, heute Teil Rumäniens) gerufen: Er soll einen reichen Adeligen bei der Umsiedlung nach England unterstützen. Doch nach kurzer Zeit merkt Harker: Er hat es mit einem hochintelligenten, aber grauenhaften Untoten, einem Vampir zu tun, der von Menschenblut lebt und sich mit verlockend schönen, aber ebenso abscheulichen Gespielinnen umgibt. In Harkers Heimatstadt London, einer der damals größten Metropolen der Welt, wartet eine unendliche Schlachtbank ahnungsloser und hilfloser Menschen auf den blutrünstigen Grafen, der offenbar nicht aufzuhalten ist ... | Dieser berühmteste aller Vampir-Romane wurde in rund 45 Sprachen übersetzt und unzählige Male verfilmt und anderweitig adaptiert.

  • by Garry Kilworth
    £13.49

    Rain ghost, rain ghost, go away...Steve is being followed, watched. Something is waiting for him. Something is coming to get him.Steve is being haunted.But by what? And why? Does it have anything to do with that night Steve got lost out on the moors - and what he found there?How do you stop...a haunting?When Steve finds an ancient dagger on the moors he realizes that, unless he returns it, he will always be haunted by the brooding presence he has disturbed.The Scholastic classic returns to print for a whole new generation!

  • by V. M. Nelson
    £14.49 - 20.99

  • by J W Crawford
    £8.49

    "The House on Fifth Street: The Girl in the Statue," is the first book in a series, designed for reluctant readers and constant readers alike. Think "Spiderwick Chronicles" meets "Monster House."

  • by Angela M. Ashford
    £20.49

  • by Scholastic
    £9.49

    A guidebook for the horror video game shares details about clues and puzzles in every department of the studio, instructions for operating the Ink Machine, profiles of the major characters, and tips for navigating the levels of the game successfully.

  • by R.L. Stine
    £7.99

    Prepare to be scared like never before! From the delightfully twistedmind of R.L. Stine comes a fresh new vision for the fan-favoritebrand. This new series will feature an ALL NEW line-up of incrediblevillains, with iconic monsters as you've never seen thembefore, whose antics are destined to make them every bit as belovedas Slappy.

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    £7.99

    A spooktacular collection of scary stories by thirteen of the most exciting and diverse authors in children's books today! Perfect for readers aged 9-12

  • by Saanvi Sahi
    £9.49

    This book is a horror novel. This is about a boy who lives in London and loves to read novels. One day he goes to a market shop to buy a book and sees this book. He bought this book after buying it, his life was totally changed. As this novel is written by class 6 students, we would request you to try our book and give feedback.

  • by Zachary Sergi
    £11.49 - 20.99

  • by Jennifer Killick
    £7.49

    The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spookyCrater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine's Goosebumps and Stranger Things!

  • by August Hoeft
    £12.49 - 19.99

  • by Melissa de la Cruz
    £9.99

The Horror Genre
Horror is a cultural genre that is meant to scare, shock and repulse its audience. An important thing to remember about this type of genre is that it elicits a dreadful sense in the reader through frightening and terrifying themes, situations and descriptive images. When we read a horror book, everything is important, such as the storyline, characters and the whole atmosphere. It is meant to provoke and shock the reader with its exploration of the unknown. The depreciating value that horror has, will help us understand why something is indeed scary. Look at it this way, once you see the monster come into the light, and you see it for what it truly is, it will help you to be less afraid. This genre also has several sub-genres, some of them consist of; Gothic, Science fiction, Survival, Occult, Dark fantasy, Paranormal, etc. Each has its own distinct characteristics. 

Classic Horror books
If we think about some of the popular classic horror books, the first author that will pop up is most likely the gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe. The gothic novel is a subgenre under horror that specifically has a focus on death, originated in the 18th century and is mastered by him. In the 19th and 20th century the horror writers focused on something completely different, such as tales involving occult ideas, and the popular books Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Dracula by Bram Stoker came into the picture and still kept their relevance today. Frankenstein is a classic story about a scientist who accidentally creates a monster when his experiment goes horribly wrong. And Dracula is a gothic novel about a vampyre who has a desire to spread the undead curse to as many mortal humans as possible. These two popular stories are well known worldwide and they will never lose their relevance, no matter how old they get. That is the magic of being a classic.  

New Horror books
As for the newer horror books, 2019-2021 had been some epic years for horror fiction. It is an ever-evolving genre and so many new voices blossomed. Most of the popular horror stories today involve crime writing, especially serial killers, slashers, and the ghost of the past. Something about newly written gothic stories that take place in the Victorian-era is so thrilling to read about, here we find books like the Stalking Jack the Ripper series by Kerri Maniscalo. The author incorporates themes of equality and social justice which takes the mystery of the infamous murderer to a whole new level. The main character Audrey Rose, eschews polite society for the very scandalous pastime of learning burgeoning science of forensic medicine. While she spends her time being captivated by science, there’s a serial killer on the loose. There’s nothing more thrilling and entertaining than reading about an inspiring heroine who solves mystery crimes. 
Children’s horror books are also important to address. Here we find Nightmares by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller, where the younger audience can explore dark territory but at the same time be comforted. It is a book that’ll reassure you how to overcome the power of fear. The main character Charlie’s and his friends’ adventure in the Netherworld is harrowing, because they’re in constant danger, but together they try to face their fears and conquer their nightmares. 

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