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

Asim, Laila and Tom like nothing more than spooking each other out with tales of the unexpected. This summer they're back with three more stories to chill you to the bone. Can your dreams really grant you fortunes and riches? What lurks in the shadows of Number 17?

The Latin American tale of La Llorona strikes fear in the hearts of all who hear it. It begins with a woman who drowns her children in a fit of rage and jealousy. It ends with a weeping spectre rumoured to pull anyone she encounters to a watery grave. Where did the legend of this murderous mother...

Learn how to draw all your favourite Five Nights at Freddy's characters! Filled with all your favourite characters from the bestselling horror video game series, this how-to-draw is packed with step-by-step instructions to create your own artwork of these terrifying creations.

When Maya and her classmates are asked to write a creepy story with a winter theme, they come up with some brilliant ideas. Rising floodwaters uncover long-buried bodies and ghostly children take to the ice on a frozen canal. But as each of the stories is read out in class, Maya grows more and mo...

The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to spooks and spirits. From the ancient evils of Egypt, cutthroat Celtic sacrifices, Anne Boleyn and other restless royals, a deathly drummer boy trapped in the underground passages of Edinburgh, as well as ghost busters and spook...

Discover all the foul facts about fifty gruesome great houses with history's most horrible headlines: 'Gruesome Great Houses' edition. From Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh to Buckingham Palace in London, this book covers the history of Britain and Ireland from the time of the savage Stone Age right up...

Some of the best children's authors have come together to bring you this terrifying collection of spine-chilling stories to make you scream, shiver and gasp. Open if you dare!

Sometimes life isn't fair for Mabel Chase. Like for instance she isn't allowed to go Trick or Treating on Halloween because she has to visit a relative instead. And even though there's a monster living under her bed, her parents still won't let her have a brand-new high-up bunk bed which wouldn't...

From unexpected deaths to magical curses, mummies seem to have a mysterious impact on others. Learn more about how mummies came to be-and what makes them monsters.

This collection contains 14 traditional tales. With gruesome ghouls and spooky ghosts, spiteful goblins and mysterious spirits, this rich and varied collection is sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, always thrilling.