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

  • Better Off Dead

    £8.99

    One of Us is Lying meets Win Lose Kill Die but with a chilling supernatural twist that will keep you guessing until the very end . . .

  • The Spiral Key

    £9.99

    At the start of each school year, the spiral key invitations go out for Madison Pembroke’s birthday party. For one night, a few lucky students get to enter Ametrine, a virtual paradise designed to be the party of the year – an unforgettable celebration that will secure their social status in the real world. As Madison’s hated ex-BFF, Bree Benson never receives a key. Until now. Despite warnings from her boyfriend, Bree sees the invite as an olive branch, the perfect opportunity to rekindle her once-amazing friendship with Madison. But as the party games begin to turn violent, Bree finds that Ametrine might not be the virtual paradise she was promised. And that Madison may have let Bree enter Ametrine, but she has no intention of ever letting her leave.

  • Gloam

    £7.99

    Not all monsters come out at night. A spine-chilling middle grade horror for fans of Stranger Things and A Monster Calls

  • Ottoline Goes to School

    £7.99

    The second exciting Ottoline story from Chris Riddell, the award-winning author and illustrator behind the Goth Girl books.

  • The Book of Living Secrets

    £8.99

    No matter how different best friends Adelle and Connie are, one thing they’ve always had in common is their love of a little-known gothic romance novel called Moira. So when the girls are tempted by a mysterious man to enter the world of the book, they hardly suspect it will work. But suddenly they are in the world of Moira, living among characters they’ve obsessed about for years. However, all is not how they remembered it. The world has been turned upside down: The lavish balls and star-crossed love affairs are now interlaced with unspeakable horrors.

  • The haunted house on Hollow Hill

    £8.99

    The book version of the thrilling and innovative narrative podcast.

    On a dark and stormy night ?

    A pair of ghost-hunting journalists arrive at the most haunted house in Britain – the Hollow Hotel. They’re here to interview the Dark King of television magic, Romeo Gideon.

  • SP 8: Last stand of dead men

    £8.99

    He’s dead. She’s deadly. The bad guys don’t stand a chance.

    The eighth book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series.

  • SP 9: The dying of the light

    £8.99

    He’s dead. She’s deadly. The bad guys don’t stand a chance.

    The ninth book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series.

  • SP 7: Kingdom of the wicked

    £8.99

    He’s dead. She’s deadly. The bad guys don’t stand a chance.

    The seventh book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series.

  • Cold blood

    £7.99

    The curse is calling, the bitten unite . . . return to the Town of the Turned as things get DANGEROUS in the third book in the chilling, thrilling Bite Risk series.
     

  • Tales of scary beasts

    £9.99

    Have you ever met a scary beast? No? Many explorers have and they’re here to tell you about it. Read the stories, consider the facts and study the frightening illustrations. Use your critical literacy skills to find out what they really saw! From the award-winning team behind Real-life Mysteries, these terrifying tales will get your heart racing!