Horror

Tim and Gerry found the strange house quite by chance. The windows were boarded up and it looked mysterious and exciting. But was it deserted? When Tim and Gerry see a face at the window of a boarded up house in Wimbledon, London, they decide to investigate...

Carnegie Medal winner Tanya Landman delivers a terrifyingly enthralling and truly accessible retelling of Bram Stoker's legendary Gothic horror novel.

Penelope Yee is a little girl who has too many things to do. So many things, in fact, that she would rather die than do them all, and so she does-over and over again. She simply can't stop dying. The problem is that every time Penelope dies, she gets a new ghost. And the ghosts get more and more bothersome and annoying. What's a girl to do? How do you get rid of a ghost? Penelope finds a way.

After surviving a car accident that killed her best friend, Teresa finds solace in an online community, but when a mysterious figure appears in a streamer's video and begins causing deaths, she must confront her fears and venture outside to stop the entity before it claims more lives.

Learn all about Halloween in this wonderfully illustrated picture book with a gentle story following Luna and her family, plus plenty of non-fiction content including a quiz and activities that celebrate the spooky season.

Open The Book of Frights for Spooky Nights – if you dare – and encounter the world's most haunted places as if you were exploring them yourself.

After one misadventure too many, 11-year-old serial miscreant Conn is sent home from school. Picked up by his professor aunt Doireann, she takes him to her office in UCD's National Folklore Collection on the way home. Surrounded by old books and artefacts, it's only a matter of time before Conn puts a foot wrong ...

Darren Shan''s dark adventures continue. As Darren learns how to live hisnew life in the shadows of the world, he gains some freedom from his mentor.However, his pleasant holiday turns gruesome when peculiar murders plague thecity. The hit series from internationally acclaimed author Darren Shan is nowavailable in a deluxe, oversized omnibus!

The masterful Kate DiCamillo, twice winner of the Newbery Medal, has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother and growing up. It's the summer she turns 10, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium. Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris's mother's chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris's grandmother, has started seeing a ghost in the doorway to her room - which seems like an alarming omen given that she is feeling unwell. But the ghost is not there to usher Charisse to the Great Beyond. Rather, she has other plans - wild, impractical, illuminating plans. How can Ferris satisfy a spectre with Pinky terrorizing the town, Uncle Ted sending Ferris to spy on her aunt, and her father battling an invasion of raccoons?

The urban legend of the vanishing hitchhiker dates back some 400 years. During that time, the modes of transport have changed, but the behaviour of the hitchhiker has remained the same. Soon after accepting a ride, they vanish into thin air. Is this mysterious traveller a tormented spirit searching for a connection? Or is an encounter with this haunted hitchhiker a sign of impending doom? Young readers will find out in this easy-to-read ghostly graphic novel that will send shivers down their spines!

In 1970, a nursing student was given a large doll as a gift. Soon the doll, which became known as Annabelle, began acting strangely. When no one was looking, Annabelle changed positions on her own. Then the doll began leaving creepy, cryptic notes asking for help. Was Annabelle possessed by the spirit of a dead girl? Or was the doll an anchor for a demon? Young readers will find out in this easy-to-read ghostly graphic novel that will send shivers down their spines!

Can you be a final girl and survive your own horror movie - twice? Almost a year after the horrors of Harrogate, Charley is slowly regaining some semblance of a normal life in a small village called?Briar's Hill, AKA 'The Devil's Punchbowl'. Then she befriends the local misfits and learns of her new home's ties to witchcraft - and realises that Briar's Hill has more secrets than she bargained for. However, the town's troubled past might just be the key to Charley understanding her ability to speak to the dead, especially with Halloween approaching.But when the Harrogate Killer makes a shocking return, blood is spilled and an entirely new terror is unleashed. Before Charley can flee town, the dead are talking and if she doesn't start listening, they'll find ways to make her.Charley's horror knowledge will be put to the test once more, and if she and the Harrogate Killer don't figure out how to work together, they'll be trapped in Briar's Hill forever. Or worse - buried in it. How to Survive a Horror Sequel is a fast-paced horror comedy, perfect for fans of RL Stine's Fear Street, Christopher Pike's Midnight Club and Kat Ellis' Harrow Lake.

Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult NovelIn Adam Cesare's terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress--that just may cost her life.Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don't know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can.Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It's a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now. YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults Nominee

Jack and Conan's friendship is officially dead. Stuck in detention with Yash and Jerry after an all-out brawl, it's a terrible start to sixth class. And that's before they witness a monstrous beast step out of a portal outside their school. When it wanders into the crumbling mansion across the road, the boys follow. They have to investigate, right?

In this thrilling finale to the Blight Harbor series, Evie ventures into the Dark Sun Side to rescue her parents and discovers truths darker than she could have ever imagined.

What happens when a talking fish, a runaway dog, and a herd of hog-likecreatures descend on the woods behind Cody Brachman's house?An absolute nightmare!

The second book in the best-selling, laugh-out-loud STITCH HEAD series, by award-winning author Guy Bass, with illustrations by Pete Williamson, brought to almost-life again in this monstrously magnificent graphic novel edition.The first STITCH HEAD book is soon to be a major motion picture. Enter the darkly funny world of Stitch Head, as he steps out of the shadows into the adventure of an almost-lifetime... When Stitch Head sees his ice-blue eye for the very first time, he's convinced that it once belonged to the legendary pirate, Captain Flashpowder. Could it be that he is part-pirate? But as Stitch Head prepares for a life of derring-do on the high seas, some fishy business closer to home puts a stop to his swashbuckling plans... Full of monstrous fun,STITCH HEADis perfect for fans of GRIMWOOD, AMELIA FANG and THE NOTHING TO SEE HERE HOTEL.

Perfect for fans of Lisa Frankenstein, Bones and All, and There's No Way I'd Die First, Slice of Cherry is a fresh, macabre, and delicious horror novel about girl villains and monstrosity by the utterly inimitable Dia Reeves.

A supernatural historical adventure for readers 10 + set amongst the mysterious ancient ruins of a Minoan Palace.Book One of the Lily Ash Series of psychic archaeological adventuresEngland - 1930 Abandoned by her mother, bullied at boarding school, haunted by a poltergeist ...Lily Ash is only 12, but she already thinks her life can't get any worse. Then her uncle forces her to join his next archaeological excavation on the Greek island of Crete. As she explores the ancient site of Knossos with local boy Micky, Lily discovers that its powerful spirits have been waiting a very long time for someone with her psychic abilities ...