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

Valerie has been living at Lightning Falls nearly all her life. She's perfectly happy helping Meg and the rest of the family to haunt the guests who come to stay there - it is the Ghost House after all. One night, she sees a strange boy, Joe, up on the viaduct. Here she discovers that beneath the...

'Lights in the Mirror' has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of six and is fully illustrated throughout. The blue Golf keeps following Max's car. It's creepy. Who is in the car, and what do they want?

'Lion on the Loose' has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of six and is fully illustrated throughout. There are big paw prints in the garden. There are big paw prints in the woods. Is there a lion on the loose?

Emma Carstairs has finally avenged her parents. She thought she'd be at peace. But she is anything but calm. Torn between her desire for her parabatai Julian and her desire to protect him from the brutal consequences of parabatai relationships, she has begun dating his brother, Mark. But Mark has...

A spin-off series from the 'House of Night' series. In 'Lost', we follow Zoey, Stevie Rae, and Rephaim to an alternative version of the House of Night, where dangers take the form of friends, and allies are found in the strangest places.

Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood are settling into domestic life with their son Max when the warlocks Ragnor Fell and Shinyun Jung break into their loft and steal a powerful spell book. Realising that Ragnor and Shinyun are being controlled by a more sinister force, Magnus and Alec set out to stop ...

Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood are settling into domestic life with their son Max when the warlocks Ragnor Fell and Shinyun Jung break into their loft and steal a powerful spell book. Realising that Ragnor and Shinyun are being controlled by a more sinister force, Magnus and Alec set out to stop ...

Jason is so thrilled with the set of 12 mythological Greek god figures he receives for his birthday that he carries one with him to a local toy shop. Soon he discovers that a 13th doll - the Medusa Doll - was also made for his set. Surely this rare figure will be too expensive - or is it? Much to...

New Orleans. Fang Fest, 1995. Mina's having a summer to die for. 17-year-old Mina, from England, arrives in New Orleans to visit her estranged sister, Libby. After growing up in the town that inspired Dracula, Mina loves nothing more than a creepy horror movie. She can't wait to explore the city'...

A murder. A mystery. Two murders, actually. Well, three, if you're counting. Oh, look, here comes a fourth! So much murder that skeleton detective Skulduggery Pleasant must annoy Valkyrie Cain, the infamous Destroyer of Worlds, with his incredible deduction abilities at every available opportunit...