Children’s / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers

SUMMER 1914When Fran uncovers a bone in the garden of Longbarrow House on the same afternoon that Leo breaks his leg, it is just the first in a series of strange and unsettling coincidences.

Jake and the other finalists in a writing competition have been invited to a stately house for a tour like no other.

Stranger Things meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this fast-paced, horror adventure with an ecological twist.

Henry Bats is running out of time, and the pocket watch counting down to his death won't stop ticking.

'Do monsters always stay in the book where they were born?

Winner of the Quiz Writers' Choice Award for Secondary FictionNominated for the Carnegie Medal for WritingShortlisted for the Branford Boase Award and Diverse Book AwardAfter a shocking event leaves Tyrese struggling with grief, he's taken to visit family in Jamaica.

When the ghosts of two young children start to haunt a local school, trainee ghost hunters Eve, Clovis and Tom are invited to help investigate the case.

Stranger Things meets Point Horror in the first of a brilliant new series for readers aged 11+ from Yvette Fielding, British television's first lady of the paranormal and presenter of Most Haunted.

Winner of the Young Quills Historical Fiction AwardNominated for the Carnegie MedalMaggie has witnessed impossible things.

A New York Times bestseller Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not guaranteed.

All ghosts wear white sheets.

A beautifully written coming-of-age novel nominated for the 2017 CILIP Carnegie Prize from an acclaimed literary voice.

Every family has secrets - but not every family has a secret pact with a demon.

Every family has secrets - but not every family has a secret pact with a demon.

Schlaflos in Kaninkorva – das geht gar nicht!

New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Mary Shelley, the English novelist and creator of Frankenstein.

She watched as her friends were ignored.

It is dark on the river.

Chris wakes from a bad dream and the house is so quiet.

A teenage boy must confront his unusual gift for seeing people that no one else can see.

Monkey Puzzler is the second book in a trilogy.

Alex is tough.

It's been one hundred years since Head Teacher Victory Piggot terrified his last pupil, but now he's back.

What is a vampire?

A memory comes to the Dark Man.

A black crumbling bridge is guarded by a fire-breathing demon.

The Dark Man must seek the gold coins.

Four tales of terror to keep you awake at night .

Only child Ben moves to the country with his mum and befriends a crow for company.

When Grace, Adam, and Ruby get lost in the fog, they stumble into a parallel world where a terrible catastrophe has occurred.

When Chris sees an ornamental glass angel smash at his feet he doesn't think anything of it.

It is Rebecca Jane's birthday, the first since her mum died.

When a glass Christmas angel smashes in front of Chris's motorbike, a stranger warns him this must be an omen.

Ben has moved to the country - and his best friend is a crow that lives in his garden.

How do you cope when you are suddenly turned in to a vampire?

Ava doesn't know how she came to be in Kosovo, or what is wrong with her.

What happens when a vampire is involved in a hit-and-run accident?

Omar thinks he's flying to New York for work experience in a laboratory - but he's kidnapped en route and taken far away.

Finn's life sucks.

Juliette is a model - but she's also a vampire.

Five teenagers camping in a forest in Hungary stumble across a dead body.

Something has gone very wrong at Hoggle's Happy Toys.

Action-packed finale to the enthralling Defenders trilogy, a series of spine-tingling spooky adventures with a sporty twist.

Action-packed follow-up to Killing Ground in the Defenders series, this is an enthralling trilogy of spine-tingling spooky adventures with a sporty twist, from a master of footie fiction for kids.

As Gabriel enters his aunt''s ancient castle he soon learns that skeletons aren''t always scary and ghosts can tell the most interesting stories.

A young exorcist must unravel the mystery of ghosts and face shattering truths to save his dead sister.

Alex has escaped from Rule - but what new horrors face her in the ravaged world outside?

An exhilarating YA adventure from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, no.