Horror

A middle-grade ghost story set on the night of Halloween, exploring themes of shyness, stammering, home and friendship.

Experience Skulduggery Pleasant as never before ¿ in this fully original graphic novel brought vibrantly to life in full colour

When a new family moves into a house in Pendle, they discover a witch's bottle filled with curses. Soon the spirits of those accused of witchcraft in the infamous Pendle Witch Trials of 1612 are released, wreaking havoc in the area. Eve, Clovis and Tom are enlisted to investigate in their latest and most challenging mission yet. Together with their mentor, Professor Rufus, they must go up against the ghosts of the Pendle witches. But the ghosts are hellbent on possessing the descendants of those who were responsible for their deadly trials. Can the ghost-hunting trio put a stop to the possessions before it's too late?

Penelope and Paddy are very confused by the arrival of a large metal monster, it seems to just sit while Daddy feeds it more and more, what is it and when will it stop eating? Overnight they are shocked to discover that the monster has grown, Penelope needs to take action quickly before the monster grows even more and devours the contents of the house for dinner and Mummy and Daddy for dessert! Penelope needs adult help if she is to tackle the monster before it starts eating her and Paddy. Daddy explains what the metal monster is and what will happen to everything that Daddy has fed it over the last couple of days. Problem solved, then what should arrive but a dinosaur! This book is to promote conversation about what happens to our waste, and how it can be recycled, upcycled, and reused to create anything from artwork to recycled enrichment in Z00s.

On the planet Eden, on the Vulpen Island of Crescent, Arthur Avalyn and his family plot a secret war against Godfather Adam and his hellish forces. Meanwhile and far away in the land of Nod, Lilith plots her revenge. When angels and demons gamble with human souls, and the fate of destiny itself is at stake, who will win, who will survive, and at what cost?

A riotous read-aloud Halloween picture book bringing you the Would You Rather game as you've never played it before!

Ada is back in the sequel to the award-winning Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse

A deliciously dark offering from the award-winning author-illustrator of the Ottoline books

This book contains five different horror genre stories. The story is about Saara and Lucy. Lucy takes vengeance against her stepmother for her evil character but doesn't hurt Saara and becomes her saviour. Another story is about problems faced by Beccy and her friends during their adventure trip. How they overcame their problems with the help of their parents and others? Each story is different from the other story.

This horror-adventure tale is perfect for bloodthirsty fans of Goosebumps, Stranger Things, Fear Street and Skulduggery Pleasant.

A girl playing a game with a supercomputer unwittingly traps hersister in a deadly escape room.

A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school¿s decades-old legend, in this debut speculative thriller by Tomi Oyemakinde.All schools have secrets. Some are better left buried.When seventeen-year-old Ife joins Nithercott School through its prestigious Urban Achievers Program, she knows immediately that she doesn't fit. Wandering its echoing halls, she must fend off cruel taunts from the students and condescending attitudes from the teachers. When she finds herself thrown into detention for the foreseeable future, she strikes up an unlikely alliance with Ben, a troublemaker with an annoyingly cute smile. They've both got reasons to want to get out of Nithercott - Ben's brother is missing, and no one seems to be bothering to find him.For Ife, it's just another strange element of this school that doesn't care about its students. But as more and more people start going missing, including one of Ife's only friends, she starts to feel haunted.Who is the figure she's started seeing in the shadowy halls, who looks mysteriously like herself? And is there any truth in to the strange urban legend that travels the school like mist . . . the legend of the Changing Man?

Some dreams are meant to stay dead.When the zombies came, they destroyed everything. They took everything, including the dreams Winchester had been finding himself in for years. It wasn't until now, a decade after the invasion happened, that he finally decided to start drawing again.Creating art in the best of times is hard but crafting art during the zombie apocalypse feels nearly impossible.Winchester needs something to give him enough hope that he can start creating again.And he needs the dead to stay dead.Author's note: this is the second book in the Beautifully Undead series and should be read in order. This series features LGBTQ+ characters.

Trapped and alone on the salt marshes, Jodie is troubled by a haunting presence in this eerily atmospheric ghost story from multi-award-winning author Hilary McKay

Andi finds that after visiting an old movie rental she is being haunted by the ghost of its owner.

Zombies never stay dead.The apocalypse wasn't supposed to be like this.It wasn't supposed to tear away everything they loved, everything they hoped for, everything they dreamed about.But it did.Winter, Isaiah, Greta, and Luke find themselves with a broken-down truck in the dead of night. They've made it to a small-town that doesn't just have zombies - it has survivors, too.But will the mysterious strangers holed up at the elementary school be helpful or harmful?And how will they escape the horde that surrounds the house they're hiding in?Chaotic Undead is the fifth book in the Stay Dead series and should be read in order.

A collection of horror poems consisting of nuns, clowns, crows, dolls, Edgar Allen Poe, and quotes from the strangest of people. Eating wet cake, snubbing gease, and being weird and wonderful--this book will surely make you squirm, squint, and maybe even laugh. If you have a dark sense of humor of course.

Zombies never stay dead.Winter has seen a lot of terrible things since the start of the apocalypse, but the trouble isn't even close to being over.After surviving the most horrific farmhouse filled with creepy dolls - why do those even exist? - the group continues on their journey.Then their car breaks down.Then one of their members faces an injury.Then they have to decide whether facing a mob of zombies is worth it to save themselves.Winter just wishes that the dead would stay dead in Fear the Undead.Author's note: this is the fourth book in the Stay Dead series and should be read in order.

Zombies never stay dead.It's been a month since the zombie infection took hold of humans everywhere. One month and six days and still we don't know what started the infection or how far it's spread. All we know is that we've got to take this thing one day at a time if we want to stay alive.And trust me: we want to stay alive.Our little group has found ourselves in the heart of an undead city. Trying to make our way around the city didn't work so well. We finally decided to just try to make our way through. We're searching for other survivors. We're searching for food. We're searching for anything that can help us get Greta home to her family.None of it is going to matter if the zombies claim us before we make our next move, though.None of it's going to matter if we can't make it home.

Zombies never stay dead.Winter Hawk is on day three of a five-day cruise when the zombie infection decides to make its appearance.She's seen her share of bad days, but nothing compares to the fact that the people around Winter are dying and coming back to life in droves.Winter has to get off of the cruise ship and away from the infection, no matter what it takes. Armed with a first aid kit, a couple of water bottles, and a few unlikely companions, she embarks on a journey that will change everything.If she can manage to survive.