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

A TIMELESS CHRISTMAS SKY ORIGINAL FILM, STARRING MARK GATISS, SIMON CALLOW AND TAMSIN GREIG'Charming, magical and life-affirming, Antonia Barber's clever and moving tale has become a much-loved favourite.

Riley Bloom died, aged twelve, in a car crash with her parents and her beloved dog Buttercup.

With a beautiful cover illustration by Alex T.

Fergal is a self-confessed nerd with an eccentric hobby: tin collecting.

The Great Blue Yonder by Alex Shearer is the quirky, gentle journey of a boy stuck between looking back, and moving on.

A cracking plot.

The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer follows an unlikely couple: Bella, a gawky teenager, and her boyfriend, Edward, a vampire who has sworn off human blood.

The Beasts of Clawstone Castle is a fantastically spooky adventure from the author of Dial a Ghost, Eva Ibbotson.

With a beautiful cover illustration by Alex T.

With beautiful cover illustration by Alex T.

With a beautiful cover illustration by Alex T.

Heaven Sent is the sixth, final book in the exciting The Mediator series by Meg Cabot.

Suze and Jessie's relationship is put to the test in Grave Doubts, the fifth book in Meg Cabot's The Mediator series.

Young Blood is the fourth book in Meg Cabot's haunting The Mediator series.

Suze goes on her most dangerous adventure yet in Mean Spirits, the third book in Meg Cabot's The Mediator series.

High Stakes is the second book in Meg Cabot's thrilling The Mediator series, followed by Mean Spirits, Young Blood, Grave Doubts and Heaven Sent.

Love You to Death is the first book in Meg Cabot's thrilling The Mediator series, followed by High Stakes, Mean Spirits, Young Blood, Grave Doubts and Heaven Sent.

When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away on the back of a carriage and leaves behind the stinking City.

Set in the alternative World War II scenario of his Front Lines novels, Michael Grant, author of the bestselling GONE series, has written this story exclusively for World Book Day 2017.

'The perfect mix of funny, foul and fearful' Metro'Brilliantly imagined .

A chilling middle grade horror perfect for fans of R.

A contemporary collection of original short stories by Anica Mrose Rissi that is sure to elicit chills, laughs, and screams, even from the most devoted fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!

The Haunting of Hill HousemeetsGet Outin this chilling YA psychological thriller and modern take on the classic haunted house story fromNew York Timesbestselling author Tiffany D.

* Chosen as a 2020 Kirkus Prize Finalist for Young Readers' Literature!

"e;High-fantasy storytelling in the style of His Dark Materials or Lord of the Rings,"e; this Polish legend retelling is "e;truly thrilling"e; (Booklist).

A long-abandonedand long-hauntedsummer camp sets the stage for the sequel toCamp Murderface, perfect for fans of old school scare masters like R.

Summer camp turns sinister in Camp Murderface, a spooky middle grade read perfect for fans of scare masters like R.

The New York Times bestselling author presents 35 "e;bite-sized treats for young horror aficionados"e;-with new stories by R.

Sawkill Girls meetsThe Hazel Woodin this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead.

Bram Stoker AwardWinner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult NovelIn Adam Cesares terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progressthat just may cost her life.

**One of BuzzFeed's Great LGBTQ+ YA novels to Warm up Your Winter * A Kid's Feb/March IndieNext pick**From New York Times bestselling author Claire Legrand comes a new, bone-chilling YA horror novel about a girl who joins a coven to root out a vicious evil thats stalking her village.

Three teen girls face off against an insidious monster that preys upon young women in this YA dark fantasy novel from a New York Times-bestselling author.

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Goosebumps, a young adult novel featuring a new girl at school with a terrifying thirst for blood.

Read the books behind Netflixs Fear Street trilogy!

Read the books behind Netflixs Fear Street trilogy!

There is magic, there is good and evil, and there is love all woven into a suspenseful and entertaining mystery.

When eighteen-year-old Lexi foresees the brutal murder of a young woman outside a club in downtown L.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Asylum comes the final book in the creepy fantasy series praised as darkly delightful.

With tales of "e;playful horror"e; and "e;spine-tingling spookiness"e; the Goosebumps author offers "e;a comprehensive introduction to the horror genre for kids"e; (School Library Journal).

Horace Carpetine does not believe in ghosts.

Sixteen-year-old John Proud discovers his family's dark secret'in 1854 an ancestral namesake confessed to being a demon.

Three chilling novellas set in the world of the New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, which Publishers Weekly called "e;a strong YA debut.

Nothing is as it seems in this chilling, twisting tale by bestselling author Andrea Portes, perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux and Danielle Vega.

In this thrilling and creepy digital original story set in the world of Madeleine RouxsNew York Times bestselling novelAsylum, a young nurse starts work at the Brookline asylumand quickly discovers that theres more to its sinister warden than meets the eye.

In this terrifying prequel novel to theNew York Timesbestselling Asylum series, a teen is wrongfully committed to the Brookline psychiatric hospital and must find a way outbefore he becomes the next victim of the evil wardens experiments.

Haunting photographs and dark family secrets make this second spine-tingling novel from Norah Olson the perfect read for fans of creepy, suspenseful teen fiction.