Children's / Teenage fiction: Horror & ghost stories, chillers

They thought the island was the end. It was only the beginning. Having survived the horrors of Savage Island, Grady is now stuck working for Gold, the psychopath who masterminded the gruesome competition. Sent on a 'team-building exercise' in a remote castle, he starts to plot his escape. Ben and...

When eighteen-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...

A young girl slides into the first-row seat of her school bus. The cool kids won't let her sit in the back. But today, she's glad to sit up front. Row by row, the seats in the back of the bus begin disappearing! Will her row be next?

Dan can see ghosts. See then, speak to them, and sometimes help them - for a price. In his second adventure, Dan is on a school trip to France when he gets mixed up in skulduggery down in the Paris catacombs. Can Dan save the living, help the unquiet dead, avoid getting himself killed - and do it...

Sent into the care of the mysterious Uncles in Edinburgh's Old Town, Delores Mackenzie must learn to control her paranormal gifts without crossing the accepted bounds of paranormal activity and angering her strange new housemates. But when a sinister apparition appears and threatens the lives of ...

Once I had four brothers. Three of them are dead. I am next. Felix Ashe is sure of only one thing. In thirty days, on his 18th birthday, he will die. He might be the only one convinced of this, but the gruesome deaths of his three brothers before him seem to point to only one thing: a curse, one ...

After detention, a young boy steps aboard the late bus. When the bus takes an unexpected turn toward a graveyard, his long day suddenly goes from bad to worse! Will the detour be the ride of his life - or his final destination?

Welcome to the Graveyard of Dead Letters, where evil silent letters, like the W of swords and the K of knives, are buried. Here they can do no harm. But the wicked Spellbinder has plans to revive the letters and use them to create a fierce weapon that will challenge even the powerful Librarian!

Yas loves her new phone, especially the awesome new camera feature. Recently, she has grown her following by uploading her photos to social media. But then Yas notices an old lady appearing in all her photo posts - it's like a bad filter that can't be removed. Best friend Ren tells Yas to re-set ...

It's summer term and time for a school trip with a difference! Year 8 are on a boat off the coast of France, learning about ocean life. But things are about to get weird. Who is the creepy man on board the ship? And what is the vast, shadowy creature seen lurking at the bottom of the ocean? When ...