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Being BAD has never felt so GOOD! The first in a villainously funny, highly illustrated young middle-grade series from author-illustrator Ryan Hammond. For fans of Amelia Fang, Dog Man and Grimwood. Don't miss the second installment, How to Steal a...

It’s all fun and games until a prank goes fatally wrong in this spine-tingling young adult thriller from Goosebumps author R.L. Stine.Diane and her friends have been sneaking out every night to play pranks while Fear Street sleeps. She loves breaking the...

Straighten your cape and ready your fangs . . . the ghosts are biting back. The spookiest story you'll read this year is the ghoulish follow-up to Alex Foulkes's highly acclaimed Rules for Vampires. A vampire and a ghost...

After Billy Brute burns down his old school – and gets away with it – his parents have to find him a new one. St Lemons say they’ll take him, but little does Billy know that St Lemons have a secret weapon: Enter Miss Wanda . . .Her glasses are...

The brand-new addictive thriller that fans of Karen M. McManus and Holly Jackson will be DYING to read.   The ROCK she fell from . . . The PAPER she clutched . . . The KILLERS she thought were friends . . .   When five Dublin teenagers...

There are secrets hidden beneath the ice . . . bring the magic home in the frosty fourth instalment of the bestselling Pinch of Magic Adventures, from the award-winning author Michelle Harrison.   When the Widdershins sisters and Granny are called...

From the bestselling creator of Not Quite Narwhal comes a delightfully spooky story about an old house who wants to be a home…even if her new family isn’t what she expected.House has a problem.She’s a little spooky. She’s a little cobwebby. Oh, no! What...

From Gillian Flynn Books, a lyrical young adult horror by debut author Wen-yi Lee that's perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting, Stephen King's IT, and The Haunting of Hill House.Growing up in Slater, Isadora Chang never felt at ease in the repressive...

From debut author Alexandra Mae Jones comes a compelling, nuanced exploration of bi identity and body image with a ghostly backdrop-perfect for fans of Nina Lacour.Still reeling from a recent trauma, sixteen-year-old Dell is relieved when her mom...

Age range 8 to 12What if your favorite scary story was real?With eerie illustrations and chilling creepypasta interstitials, The Doomsday Archives: The Wandering Hour by Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos is the first in a deliciously creepy series,...

When legends bite back.Lemon Ziegler wants to escape rural Devil's Elbow, Pennsylvania to attend college-but that's impossible now that she's expected to impersonate the town's lake monster for the rest of her life. Her family has been secretly keeping...

The Turn of the Screw, a novella written by Henry James in 1898, is perhaps one of the most widely read ghost stories in classrooms across the country. The story's ambiguity and characters' unreliability also mark the book as a work of impressionism, an...

Crooked Hills is the most haunted town in America. It's just the news that Charlie needs to salvage his forced vacation to the middle of nowhere. If he's got to take a family trip to visit relatives, at least he'll see some ghosts.But the hauntings in...

Eisner Awardwinning creator Hamish Steele's DeadEndia series is Steven Universe meets Adventure Time for fans of Scott Pilgrim, Rick and Morty, Adventure Time, and Pumpkinheads.In this diverse young adult graphic novel, third in the DeadEndia trilogy,...

When a local lake catches fire, a group of teens set out to see the spectacle for themselves-but not everything goes as planned.A very rare natural phenomenon is causing quite a stir in Rivire-aux-Corbeaux: Lake Kijikone has caught fire and grown into a...

"The Stricken will keep you guessing with new twists on every page." -Rosalyn Briar, USA Today bestselling authorWhat if our spirits walk to another life while our bodies sleep?Every day in Clara's world, a dark cloud descends upon her town. The storm...

"The Stricken will keep you guessing with new twists on every page." -Rosalyn Briar, USA Today bestselling author"[A] unique, page-turning tale." -Foreword ReviewsWhat if our spirits walk to another life while our bodies sleep?Every day in Clara's world,...

Age range 8 to 12The second entry in the slightly scary, extremely addictive contemporary middle-grade series from New York Times bestselling authors Lisi Harrison and Daniel Kraus - perfect for fans of scary stories for kids, like R. L. Stine's...

"Phenomenal." - KIRKUS Starred Review"Beautiful and terrifying." - BOOKLIST Starred Review"Unusual and unforgettable." - FOREWORDPeek through the leaves, beyond the clouded mountains, and you will find a garden with a strange attendant and an even...

Age range 14+Since time immemorial, Japan has been inhabited by supernatural creatures, spirits, monsters and demons...Here's your chance to meet them up close and personal!Strange Japanese Yokai assembles an extraordinary collection of...

Tiddles is a suave, carefree kitty cat whose only pleasures in life are eating mice, wooing the ladies, and being generally apathetic toward his owner, Jake. But when a toxic spill occurs outside of town, Tiddles finds himself savagely attacked by a...

Age range 14+From the creator of Netflix original series Dead End: Paranormal Park comes the graphic novel series that started it all!Norma Khan has been split in two...literally! Dead End, the haunted hotel attraction at Phoenix Parks, has been rebuilt...

Age range 14+From the creator of Netflix original series Dead End: Paranormal Park comes the graphic novel series that started it all!Barney Guttman's life has been turned upside down. His family is struggling to fully embrace his trans identity, but...

Age range 6 to 12The second book in the all-new Glitch Force series for Minecrafters!The Glitch Force: Three kids interested in Minecraft. There's Duncan, a genius redstoner, Miranda, a sharpshooter with encyclopedic knowledge of Minecraft, and Zed, an...

After the success of 'I'm a Zcary Vampire', comes a new, not-so-scary tale that will have children laughing out loud! De la mano de Jos Carlos Andrs e ilustrado por Gmez, y tras el xito de Un vampiropeligrozo, llega un nuevo y divertido monstruo lleno...

The Haunting of Hill House meets The Lovely Bones in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller following three teen girls solving a past treacherous murder.Nobody believes sixteen-year-old Lila Sadler, who was diagnosed with bipolar...

Age range 9 to 12'For years I've watched ballerinas from this room. I want what you want. I wish to join them.'An injured dancer uses the aid of a dark spirit to regain her title as prima ballerina, but it comes with a cost!Miriam has trained her whole...

Sixteen-year-old Jamie McGuiness's sister is dead.Sinking into a deep depression, he frequents the lighthouse where her body was discovered, unaware of the sinister forces surrounding him.When an angry spirit latches onto Jamie, he's led down a dark and...

Age range 3 to 6When Lily takes a walk with her dog, Nicky, she notices many lovely things. But poor Nicky only sees monsters lurking at every turn...'Nicky's nervous antics and his overactive imagination give this stroll a delicious scariness;...

Winner of the 2019 Locus Award for Young Adult NovelShortlisted for the 2019 Hugo Awards: Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult BookAge range 14 to 18A story of the undead like you've never read before, Justina Ireland's Dread Nation is a fresh,...

Age range 14 to 18What happens when the living meet the dead?Every summer, in an isolated Japanese village, a celebration known as the Festival of Shadows takes place, when the villagers welcome into their homes the shadows of people who have died in...

Falling in love. Evading the authorities. Chasing the rabbits. Now high school sophomores, the self-styled "Freaks" are back in class in quiet Quapaw City, Arkansas. They grapple with the ordinary challenges of everyday teen life: cliques, cars, and...

"Peter Ricq's Ghost Are People Too is a gorgeous book that brings to mind the best of Edward Gorey. Filled with stunning artwork and a charming story, it is a sincere, beautiful, and imaginative love letter to the gothic and bizarre."-David Gallaher...

Age range 14+'Who built this house? Whose money? Whose blood?"'Ghosts aren't the only thing that can haunt a house. Trynne Delaney's debut novel explores the insidious legacies of violence and oppression - and how Black, queer love and...

Age range 12+Angsty teenager Mary Shelley is not interested in carrying on her family's celebrated legacy of being a great writer, but she soon discovers that she has the not-so-celebrated and super-secret Shelley power to heal monsters, just like her...

The Gory Guide to the Walking Dead While most people know what zombies look like, do they actually know how they act? What they do during their spare time? What their work ethic is? Probably not. Enter The Ultimate Book of Zombie Warfare and...

"Exciting storytelling and Chinese culinary traditions create a delicious book for young readers."-San Francisco Chronicle This hilarious tale is redesigned, featuring revised illustrations and a new bilingual simplified Chinese translation. Long ago in...

Age range 6 to 12The first book in an excitingbrand-new series by New York Times bestselling author Megan Miller - The Glitch Force! The Glitch is an elite task force sent in to eliminate a terrifying creature invasion in the dark forest. Never having...

Age range 9+For fans of The Vampire Diaries, Dracula, or any original bloodsucker comes a parody of the children's classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar In this hilarious parody of a children's classic, The Very Thirsty Vampire presents a charming...

Age range 9 to 12Meet Whisper, Frannie, Sophie, Gemma, and Zuzu, five friends who tell eerie tales by night and navigate middle school drama by day.Misery Falls, Oregon, is abuzz as the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous...

Age range 9 to 12Unicorn in the Playground is a selection of old and new material: some to be spoken sung or shouted out loud; some to be read curled up in bed.This paperback oozes with the vitality and variety you'll find in his one man shows. Here's...

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling...

The bewitching classic children's novel by Neil Gaiman, featuring spellbinding illustrations from Chris Riddell and an exclusive new introduction by the author 'I was enthralled ... a marvellously strange and scary book' Philip Pullman 'A...

'Guaranteed to raise the hairs on the back of your neck' Neil Gaiman Jen Campbell's collection of terrifyingly gruesome tales lends a modern edge to fairy tale collections for young readers. Drawing on her extensive knowledge of fairy tale history,...