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

Maeve Chambers doesn't have much going for her. Not only does she feel like the sole idiot in a family of geniuses, she managed to drive away her best friend Lily a year ago. But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school, and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in...

For months, a gruesome killer has been plaguing the Midwest. The murderer's calling card? The bodies they leave behind are completely drained of blood. Aspiring journalist Michael Jensen, desperate to escape his small-town life, can hardly believe it when the Bloodless Murders come to sleepy Blac...

'Are You a Monster?' is a fun interactive read-aloud picture book that will have readers of all ages roaring and stomping along, as Monster encourages them to be the scariest monster possible.

A Bigfoot is on the loose! Ted, Nancy, Willow and the rest of the Grimwood gang must embark on their greatest adventure yet to save their home from a nasty, thieving stink monster. Monster hunters are GO!

Aboard a strange-looking bus, a girl hears whining coming from a hatch beneath her seat. The whines sound like calls for help. When the girl lifts the hatch to investigate, a hand reaches out and grabs her leg. Then another hand grabs her and another! Are the body parts reaching for help - or do ...

When Pete, Nancy and Krish arrive at Heathland Camp for a school trip, they're in for an adventure - just not the kind they were expecting. Nearby sits the abandoned Harwood Institute. The crumbling buildings reek of secrets and, at night, strange screams come from the surrounding forest. Nobody ...

'The Bench' has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of six and is fully illustrated throughout. An old man sits on a bench and feeds the birds. A boy makes friends with the old man. But is there something odd about this meeting?

Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones! Aveline is thrilled when she discovers that the holiday cottage her mum has rented for the summer is beside a stone circle. Thousands of years old, the local villagers refer to the ancient structure as the Witch Stones, and Aveline cannot wait to learn...

Mother Ghoul's Nursery Rhymes isn't like other books. It doesn't have an end. Literally. When people trip and tumble towards it, they don't hit the book's pages. They fall inside them, and they keep falling, forever stuck in a non-stop nightmare. Can the Librarian bring the book to a happy ending?

When young novice monk Brother Beowulf is sent to spy on Spook Johnson, he has no idea of the trouble he's about to find himself in. Johnson boasts to Wulf of his battles against demonic creatures, and even seems to imprison local witches, though Wulf is sceptical - not least because the church h...