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

The first book in the exhilarating new fantasy sequence from Joseph Delaney, the multi-million-selling author of The Spook's Apprentice.

They thought ghosts didn't exist .

Billie is forced to leave the only home she s ever known when her mother decides they should move to a new house in a small town.

One stormy summer night, Olive and her best friend, Rose, begin to lose things.

'A magical debut that you will devour' Guardian'Stunning .

Bolt your doors!

The first book in a terrifyingly spooktastic adventure series by Jason Segel!

The sequel to the funny and scary bestselling novel Nightmares!

Charlie Laird has a very bad feeling.

Jack and his dad are runaways.

Nine-year-old Tony loves ghosts and horror stories, but when he's left home alone one night, he gets quite the fright as Rudolph the little vampire flies in!

Alone and penniless after his father is killed in a cotton mill accident, fourteen-year-old William faces the rest of his childhood in a brutal workhouse.

After his father goes missing in the Great War, Owen is abandoned to live with his cruel aunt, and wishes he could escape his life of drudgery in her small seaside guesthouse.

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

The third sinister story in the Grimm series delves even further into the dark heart of the fairy tales you thought you knew and loved.

'This is the entrance to the Witch Well and behind that door you'd face your worst nightmare.

Cameron and his mom have been on the run for five years.

What happens if you see twin witches?

It was a seascape, moody with rocks and cliffs and wild showers of spray.

Jeremy can hear voices.

1567Aphra is not a normal child.

I am Dracula.

My name is Eleanor Kerchner.

A box is left on Marcus s doorstep in the rain.

The floor shook.

Something strange is in the air.

Now a major Netflix series!

Seventeen-year-old Veerle is bored with life in suburban Brussels.

Marcus isn't an ordinary thirteen-year-old.

'I fear nobody.

You are in danger.

Gilly Bodkin met a terrible accident in 1690 while searching for a sweetmeat.

Henry Mawdsley is a terrific liar.

Thomas P Kanne is the Phantom Snake, an elusive graffiti artist who has made many enemies in his attempts to vandalise his home city of Middlechester.

When Jonathan joins a new school, he is an easy target for R.

Jamie is just an ordinary boy dealing with ordinary struggles: trying to fit in and avoiding his overbearing mother.

In 'Allie/Alma', Alma is a very good girl who volunteers with the elderly in her free time.

The second terrifying tale in the Spook's spin-off series from bestselling author Joseph Delaney.

It s a dangerous job, but someone has to do it.

The third chilling instalment in the new Spook s legend .

Slither's Tale is the eleventh book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles over 3 million copies sold worldwide!

Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and high-stacking around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve.

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Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and 'high-stacking' around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve.

ROOM 13Somebody was in there.

THE PHANTOM THIEFThe first time Alfie sees the boy, he appears as if from nowhere in the school detention room - the 'padded cell'.

Somebody was in there.

When Jacqueline Hyde finds the little glass bottle in Grandma's attic her life suddenly changes.

On the back of the picture were two words which jumped right out at me: THE FRIGHTENERS.

"e;Doctor Syn on the High Seas"e; is a 1936 novel by British writer Arthur Thorndike.