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

The Hollow sisters - Vivi, Grey and Iris - are as seductively glamorous as they are mysterious. They have black eyes and hair as white as milk. They share the same birthday, spaced exactly two years apart. The Hollow sisters don't have friends - they don't need them. They move through the corrido...

Where has Faith's dad gone? Why has he left his family living in an old house perched on a crumbling cliff top? A crack has appeared in the cliff and Faith watches anxiously as it gets bigger and bigger each day. Her brother is obsessed with the sea ghosts he claims live in the basement, and when...

Miles from anywhere, Jamie's new house is falling down. When he and his dad start work on it they meet Colin, a boy with a tragic secret. Jamie finally uncovers the truth in this compelling ghost story for children.

It's Visitor's Weekend at Camp Croak and Lexie Wilde and her band of Ghost Scout friends are looking forward to seeing their families. But when Grams doesn't appear, and instead someone claiming to be Lexie's mother arrives, Lexie doesn't know what to think. And when a Wish Wind suddenly flies th...

Bess can't wait to see her friends aboard the Train of Dark Wonders and embark on another adventure together. But she also has her duties as owner of the Odditorium to think about. The most urgent of these is to find a new guard animal for the secret tunnels beneath the museum. So when Bess disco...

Though Laure has tried to close the lid on her ballet shoes and the feelings she once held for dance since the Palais Garnier incident two months ago, Laure is spinning out. Between partying, drinking, and avoiding anything and, well, everyone, she has no time to be anything but a monster. But wh...

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 secret. Particularly when hi...

An extremely evil book marked with an X has unleashed a swarm of X-winged insects, and the bugs are on the hunt for their favourite food - books! When the hungry horde targets a bookmobile and the humans inside, can the expert Librarian force the deadly pests to exit? Or will they turn him into a...

The Eraser, sworn enemy of the Library of Doom, has come up with a wicked new scheme. He's created a powerful gas that will turn ink invisible and render all books empty and useless. Will the Librarian be able to stop the villain's criminal concoction?

Jodie never wanted to come on the residential trip to the field centre. A loner at school, she's forced into a dormitory with other girls from her class who don't understand her and talk about her behind her back. Even though they're not trying to be mean, Jodie feels excluded and miserable, and ...