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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 S. A. Kazlo
    £10.49

    Thirteen-year-old Ella Hawthorne is being sent to Camp Wiawaka, on the shores of Lake George, for six weeks by her "perfect parents" in hopes that she will excel at something-anything. She'd rather stay home and do what she loves-gardening. Unfortunately, she bunks with the camp bully, Sidney, who insists their cabin win the mile swim at the end of the summer. Ella is terrified of swimming, but the camp ghost, Lisa Stewart, comes to her aide. Things go fine for Ella until Lisa starts to take things into her ghostly hands and seeks revenge for her own drowning when Ella's mom attended Camp Wiawaka. Will Lisa lead Ella or Sidney to the same fate? Can Ella prevent another tragedy at Camp Wiawaka?

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    by Rob Renzetti
    £12.99

    "Plagued by forgotten memories and cryptic notes, Zenith Maelstrom catches his sister sneaking back to the bag in the basement and follows her on a perilous journey to confront their past mistakes in the surreal realm of GrahBhag, as they striving to protect each other from imminent peril and the looming threat of Eternity Tower"--]cProvided by publisher.

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    by Tyler Parker & Karin Lefranc
    £8.99 - 10.99

    A monster book that is silly and fun, with a strong message about kindness and friendship.

  • by Brian Moses
    £7.99

    Alex and Phoebe have a lot of questions about ghosts, but no one to ask - until they meet Walter. He knows everything there is to know about ghosts. After all, he is one! Together, the three friends must find a way to set Walter free. But it isn''t easy to keep a ghost''s secret. Particularly when his friends turn up!

  • by Abbie Fox
    £8.99

    Eman is devastated when her grandad passes away after a sudden fall. It just doesn't make sense to her. Something feels off. When clearing out grandad's loft, Eman and her brother, Abdu, uncover a stolen Egyptian mummy head. Just when they think things can't get any stranger, it is revealed there is a deadly family secret...

  • by Danny Pearson
    £8.99

    Yash and Minnie are so bored of their hometown. They decide to visit The Vita, an old, abandoned cinema right on the edge of town. Yash gets the old projectors going and the pair are looking forward to watching some vintage movies. However, things don't quite go to plan - the movies get lively.

  • by Brad Strickland
    £15.49

    A flu epidemic ushers in a plague of dark magic in this spooktastic mystery featuring teenage sleuth Johnny Dixon from The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost. Though forty miles away, Duston Heights is not safe from the flu that's raging through Boston. When Johnny Dixon's grandmother falls ill, he's sent to live with his neighbor to avoid infection. So many locals are getting sick that school is canceled for a week, and the reclusive Dr. Abram Ashburn comes out of retirement to make house calls. After seeing a scary vision of his bedridden grandmother outside of a window, Johnny starts to feel on edge. Then he and his best friend find what looks to be a weird map of a cemetery in Dr. Ashburn's house. One specific grave is marked with an "X," the burial place of a woman who practiced witchcraft in the seventeenth century. The townspeople recover from the flu, but they can't escape the terrifying illusions and shadow people that now haunt them, unless Johnny and his friends find the key to unlock the secrets of the graveyard before a dreadful prophecy comes to pass . . . Praise for The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost "Fans of the series will enjoy this new supernatural adventure, which reads so much like Bellairs's books that they won't believe he didn't write it." --School Library Journal "Strickland's story is eerie, suspenseful, and true to the personalities and writing style of Bellairs, who began the Johnny Dixon series . . . This is good reading for adventure enthusiasts as well as for series fans." --Booklist

  • by Alyssa Alessi
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  • by Rishi Raj
    £11.49

    This idea came into my mind after watching American tv series (The Walking Dead). I thought that it's high time that in India also there should be a TV series or a web series like that which will show the situation during a zombie apocalypse in India. So my idea for a web series or serial revolves around school students who get trapped in the school at the beginning of the apocalypse and then from there their journey begins for survival. It will be amazing to see how they get out of that school and where they go and yes among them there is someone who has a very strong connection with this outbreak. It will be interesting to watch how they will survive there and most importantly how they will escape and especially where Aryan destiny took him.It will have three seasons and I really feel it's time to go ahead of regular type of shows or typical saas bahu shows. Lets attract youth and kids and show them something thrilling which they have never experienced before.I have taken my character names if you want you can change it. Basically in the beginning the main characters for web series are Aryan, Karan, Rahul etc. Aryan is a special character because his father has a connection with that outbreak so it will be amazing to witness his journey.

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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

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    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
    £18.49

  • by Siân Mole
    £9.49

    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
    £6.99

  • 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 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 Chris Cannon
    £15.49

    Finding out on your sixteenth birthday you're a shape-shifting dragon is tough to swallow. Being hauled off to an elite boarding school is enough to choke on. Since Bryn is the only crossbreed at the Institute for Excellence, all eyes are on her, but it's a particular black dragon, Zavien, who catches her attention. Zavien is tired of the Directorate's rules. Segregated clans, being told who to love, and close-minded leaders make freedom of choice almost impossible. The new girl with the striped hair is a breath of fresh air, and with Bryn's help, they may be able to change the rules. At the Institute, old grudges, new crushes, and death threats are all part of a normal day for Bryn. She'll need to learn to control her dragon powers if she wants to make it through her first year at school. But even focusing on staying alive is difficult when you're falling for someone you can't have.

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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