Horror

It's a dark and lonely Christmas Eve in the dining room of ancient Soul's College. The kitchen boy, 11-year-old Lewis, has helped prepare a highly unusual meal, made with unrecognisable ingredients, cooked by a mysterious chef. And then the guests arrive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473526917Author DC SwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Cambridge Town PressPublisher Cambridge Town PressWeight(grams) 32gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Quick Pick for Young Adult Reluctant Readers 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780440237976Author Amelia Atwater-RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394848273Author Mary ShelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm) 194mm...

An anthology of scary stories, some drawn from traditional sources, others from a variety of cultures and traditions, and some specially written for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780192781109Author Dennis PepperFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint...

After discovering that vampires populate Morganville - and surviving a number of adventures - Claire Danvers has come to realize that for the most part, the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else has other ideas. There's a new extreme...

This is a collection of stories about all kinds of supernatural events and creatures. You'll meet vampires, witches, werewolves, banshees, screaming angels, scary scarecrows, gloves that will strangle you, rooms that will suffocate you, and things you...

Bringing together stories about supernatural beings which, whatever they are - fiends, demons, witches, vampires - cannot be regarded as ghosts, this collection is designed to complement the "Young Oxford book of ghost stories".Book InformationISBN...

When Nick falls out with his mother's new boyfriend, he runs away, and soon meets a group of human statues, performing in the town centre. Nick finds he has a talent for this too, and is soon 'discovered' by the mysterious genius Antonin, and whisked...

There's a new craze sweeping across the country - the mysterious DJ Peterman and his "Purple" club. Everyone wants to be a part of it - nobody wants to be left out. But when a competition is launched to find the real DJ Peterman, Dinah and her friends...

Nobody ever passed the old Garvan house alone; gossip and suspicion surrounded it. But when an eerie cry draws Meg, Pete and Harvey into its grounds, little do they expect to be swept up into a love story that spans the century. What part do the...

Featuring stories from R.L. Stine and Madeleine Roux, this middle grade horror anthology, curated by New York Times bestselling author and master of macabre Jonathan Maberry, is a chilling tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. ...

Vee Bell is certain of one unshakeable truth. Sophie was murdered. But how can she prove it? Everyone thinks Vee is narcoleptic, but her secret condition is far more terrifying. When Vee passes out she slides into other people's minds and can see the...

Kaylee has one addiction: her very hot, very popular boyfriend, Nash. A banshee like Kaylee, Nash understands her like no one else. Nothing can come between them. Until something does. Demon breath. No, not the toothpaste-challenged kind. The...

'I saw my teacher in the queue at the supermarket last Christmas. Miss Baxter. I was surprised to see her. She'd been dead for six months' In Out of The Depths, Cathy MacPhail introduces her latest character, Tyler Lawless, who has an unusual and...

Araminta's Aunt Tabby has won a Transylvanian holiday for four so she and all the adults of Spook House are going for a much-needed break but it just so happens to be Araminta's birthday, too. So who will keep an eye on Araminta and her friend Wanda?...

Something is wrong with Kaylee Cavanaugh... She can sense when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally. Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of...

Vivian, at 16, is a beautiful young werewolf with all the young wolves in her pack howling for her. But then she falls in love with a human. If she reveals herself, will he be able to relish the magic of her dual nature? Then squabbles with her pack lead...

There is an unseen world most people can't begin to imagine . . . . . . Where the most ordinary things can turn against you. The village of Templeton was evacuated during World War 2. Now even the ghosts are leaving - because something terrible stayed...

When Eddie 'Dipper' Hopkins steals George Archer's wallet he has no idea that he is about to enter a dark world of grave-robbing, assassins and zombies. For George Archer is no ordinary citizen. He has just been offered a job in the top secret Department...

Drip . . . Drip . . . DOOM. Does the water taste a bit funny to you? A creature is on the loose, a half-man-half-plant hell-bent on taking over the world and putting vegetation back in charge. He's in people's homes, tampering with the taps, and things...

Amateur ghostbuster Cosmo Jones is called in to Mario's Pizza Restaurent to investigate claims of spooky goings on. He hears strange noises coming from the jukebox and soon faces a ghost ship complete with pirates! This is the second book in THE SPOOKY...

'A nail-biting chiller, which will leave readers begging for more. Be prepared for some sleepless nights.' Michael Grant, author of Gone. Milton Lake is a seemingly ordinary town, where tales of hauntings and strange goings on ripple beneath the surface...

Eight pale hands - some with fingers stripped down to the bone - rose out of the earth. Slimy with rain, the rat-gnawed heads of four soldiers loomed into view. They moaned at the sky and their cry moulded itself into a word: 'FLLLLLLEEESSSSSSSSHHHHH!'...

What would you do if you woke up to find all the grown-ups had disappeared?If you're like Lucy Dungston, you'll do anything to get to the bottom of it.With no grown-ups, chaos descends on Lucy's town. Kids are running wild, building roads of trampolines...

Jonathan spends the summer staying with his great-aunt Caroline in her house by an old airfield. His friend Dave, the ghost who was killed 50 years ago comes too. Jonathan is transported back to the battle of Britain and his hair-raising adventures with...

The king of horror's demonic symphony in ten volumes, now available in omnibus editions - each containing two titles in the spine-chilling Demonata series. Blood Beast: Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but when he...

The amazing manga retelling of Darren Shan's international best-selling vampire saga, with illustrations by Japanese artist Takahiro Arai. Compelled by his loyalty to Mr Crepsley, Darren Shan, the vampire's assistant, agrees to prove his worthiness to...

Four freak accidents. Four mysterious deaths. Four signs of trouble. Welcome back to Weirdsville... "You see, the girls that died - it wasn't by accident. They were cursed, every one of them. Cursed to meet a horrible death... And I'm going to...

The nightmare continues... Vampire War Trilogy comprising: Hunters of the Dusk, Allies of the Night and Killers of the Dawn. Join Darren Shan's descent into the darkness. HUNTERS OF THE DUSK Darren Shan leaves Vampire Mountain on a life or death mission...

"A kick-ass teen-action-zombie fest. Fast, furious, freaky, funny and seriously sick. Oh, and did I mention it kicks ass?" - Charlie Higson, award-winning author of The Enemy and The Dead. It was just another school trip... ...

This is the fourth instalment of the "Wardstone Chronicles". In Pendle the witches are rising and the three most powerful witch clans are rumoured to be uniting in order to conjure an unimaginable evil. Together they will be capable of raising the dark...

A museum in Chicago takes possession of a body remarkably preserved in a peat bog in Germany since the sixteenth century. The body is badly mutilated and the wounds point to careful torture and execution Could the body be Peter Stubbe, the first ever...

Joel Demetrius is quite looking forward to moving in with his new step-family, but as far as his sister Cassie's concerned, they're nothing but intruders. She doesn't want anything to do with Gerald and his two sons, and to make matters worse their new...

The weekend in Mexico sounded like a dream holiday, Four guys, five girls and a gorgeous oceanside mansion all to themselves. Except nothing was going the way they'd planned. There was the girl upstairs who was fighting for her life, the phone lines were...

'I am Grimalkin, and I have already chosen those I will kill...' Grimalkin has made it her lifetime ambition to destroy the Fiend, avenging the brutal murder of her son. Having grudgingly joined forces with the Spook and his apprentice, Tom, and assisted...

Time is running out for Thomas Ward. His final battle against the Fiend is drawing near, and the Spook's apprentice has never felt more alone in his task. Isolated and afraid, the Fiend is set to send the greatest of his servants against him - Siscoi,...

This is a fabulous collection of stories based on many of the witches from Joseph Delaney's Spooks books. Ever wondered why the Spook doesn't trust girls who wear pointy shoes? Or why Grimalkin became the Assassin for the Malkin Witch clan? Find out all...

The Darke Academy is a school like no other. An elite establishment that moves to an exotic new city every term, its students are impossibly beautiful, sophisticated and rich. Death has followed the Darke Academy to the ancient city of Istanbul. An...

'I will buy your castle', declared Hiram C. Hopgood. 'But only if there are no ghosts'! Alex MacBuff can't afford to keep his beloved Castle Carra, and an American millionaire has made him an offer he can't refuse. The castle is shipped all the way to...