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From master of middle grade horror Mary Downing Hahn, a new thriller about bravery, unexpected friendship, and sinister cats that will captivate readers with its chilling mix of mystery and magic.Zoey loves spending the summer with her Aunt Alice, and her aunt's new house is the perfect place to cozy up with a good book. But she's unnerved by the overgrown forest next door, which is creepy even in the daytime and full of eerie sounds at night.Worse, there are rumors in town of a dark force in those woods. And Zoey can't deny that the wild black cats who live there seem to be watching her.When she encounters a mean old woman who claims to be their owner, Zoey realizes there's more to the cats than meets the eye. But little does she know that the closer she comes to discovering their secret, the more danger she's in . . .

A delightfully creepy story perfect for the middle school set! Hush-a-Bye is an old, broken doll found by Lucy and her sister in the woods. It seems to possess extraordinary powers, but will it use them for good or evil?Like most kids with younger siblings, Lucy loves her sister Antonia, but is all too frequently annoyed with her as well. The two spend most of their time together since their mother works so hard, but without friends Lucy can't help but feel lonely anyway. She's always tried to ignore the bullying and teasing at school about her family being poor-it's always best to keep her head down and do nothing. When the girls find an old, muddy doll head in the river, Antonia claims it as her newest treasure. At night Lucy hears her talking to Hush-a-Bye-and does she hear the doll talking back? Soon, Hush-a-Bye seems to be protecting Antonia by making bad things happen to others, and it isn't long before Lucy asks for its help against her tormentors, too. Slowly Hush-a-Bye's influence forms a wedge between the sisters, and Antonia's dependence on it becomes frightening. The doll has a mind of its own, and soon it will have Antonia's as well. Can Lucy solve the mystery of Hush-a-Bye to stop its evil plans?

It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.despite the hunger, despite the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear.Within the FAYZ, life breaks down while the Darkness takes over?turning the dome-world of the FAYZ entirely black. A will to survive and a desire to take care of those they love endures in this ravaged band, even in the bleakest moments. But in darkness, the worst fears of all emerge, and the cruelest of intentions are carried out. After so many months, is all about to be lost in the FAYZ?

Ten humorously terrifying tales that include a villainous vending machine that eats kids like candy, a birthday-party crashing robot, an evil app that can predict exactly how anyone who uses it will die, and more.

Un racconto di suspense e coraggio, tre amici Jan, Ernest e Doson, esplorano un vecchio hotel abbandonato.All'interno di quelle mura desolate e oscure, i tre si imbarcano in un'avventura spettrale e angosciante. Mentre si addentrano nei misteri del passato, creature misteriose sembrano aver fatto della struttura la loro dimora. Saranno in grado di svelare il segreto degli esseri che infestano l'hotel e porsi come paladini della verità?

From the dimly lit assembly lines of 1993 to the digital frenzy of 2023, dive deep into the heart of a suburban town where not all toasters pop as they seem!

Helena Álvarez, una joven audaz y rebelde, está a punto de enfrentarse al desafío más trascendental de su vida. En su último año de instituto, decide cumplir su sueño de formar una banda de rock gótico junto a sus amigos más cercanos. Sin embargo, lo que parecía ser solo una aventura musical se convierte en un vertiginoso torbellino de emociones y misterios.A medida que Helena se enamora y vive su primera historia de amor, también lucha por aprobar las asignaturas que le permitirán acceder a la universidad. Con cada día que pasa, se acerca más a la temida entrada en la edad adulta y a la incertidumbre del futuro. Pero justo cuando la fortuna comienza a sonreírle, una serie de pesadillas perturbadoras la asaltan, arrastrando consigo a sus amigos.Más que meras imágenes oníricas, estas pesadillas muestran oscuros y violentos sucesos a los que Helena y sus amigos deberán enfrentarse. ¿Podrán eludir ese futuro aterrador y descubrir la verdad que se esconde detrás de sus pesadillas? Helena y su banda se verán envueltos en un peligroso juego de misterio, música y amor adolescente, donde cada nota puede ser clave para desvelar la verdad.Sumérgete en esta cautivadora novela de intriga y suspense. Déjate atrapar por los giros inesperados y los secretos ocultos en las sombras. ¿Qué enigma rodea a Helena Terremoto y a su banda? ¡Descúbrelo en esta emocionante historia que te mantendrá en vilo hasta la última página!

Halloween is dying, and The October Society are gone... Lost, stranded in The Dark, and if the season is to be saved they must find one another. They must gather and tell their stories. Tales of cartoonish carnage and blood on the boardwalk.Of tortured toys and tabletop terrors.Of untethered urban legends and the source of all nightmares... Collected here are the final six episodes of the spookiest show that never was. A series only found in the static between channels, remembered but never seen. A series the award-winning author of The Cotton Candy Massacre invites you to tune in to one last time...

Death, love, destiny, and danger! Lenzi knows she must be going crazy. She's hearing voices and having visions--specifically of gravestones, floods, and a gorgeous guy with steely gray eyes. And there's nothing anyone can do to help, not even her handsome musician boyfriend, Zak. Until she meets Alden, the boy from her dreams, and learns she can speak with lost souls. Now Lenzi must choose: destiny or normalcy. Alden or Zak. Life or death. And time is quickly running out.

Peters Eltern, die in der kleinen historischen Stadt Hann. Münden am untersten Zipfel Niedersachsens leben, befürchten, dass sich ihr Sohn mit dem schrecklichen Virus angesteckt haben könnte, unter dem das gesamte Land leidet.Zwar sterben Kinder und Jugendliche nicht an diesem Virus, sie zeigen nicht einmal Symptome, doch für die Erwachsenen und vor allem für die Großeltern werden sie zur Gefahr, da ausgerechnet sie das Virus als sogenannte Superspreader in sich tragen und verteilen. So treffen Peters Eltern eine Entscheidung, die auch schon andere Eltern zuvor getroffen haben: Sie setzen ihren Sohn im Reinhardswald aus, so dass er nicht mehr den Weg nach Hause findet. Doch Peter ist nicht das einzige Kind, das nun im Wald umherirrt und ums nackte Überleben kämpft ...

The Overworld is in trouble. On the ground, a rampaging army of armor-clad zombies is roving across the biomes. In the sky, a wicked Wither is leaving a path of destruction—and Wither roses—wherever it goes. And in Bobbie’s party, the tension is tighter than a skeleton’s bowstring . . . because, somehow, Logan just became its newest member. The same Logan who set zombies on Bobbie’s village and turned her little brother, Johnny, into one of the walking dead. Who bullied her friend Ben and wrecked his adventuring career. Who was mean to his minion, Other Ben (who prefers Benjamin, actually). But as the Wither skulls start flying, this not-so-merry band needs all the help it can get. Bobbie hasn’t forgotten her main mission: Find the zombified villagers who were once her friends and family and feed them the enchanted golden apples that will turn them back. But as long as the Wither exists, there’s danger. And if there’s danger, it’s a hero’s job to fix it. As much as Bobbie dislikes heroes, she and her friends (and also Logan) look like the closest thing the Overworld’s got.

"Bullied and lonely, Parker Nelson is excited to make a new friend at camp, but then bad, unexplainable things start happening to Parker's tormenters, and she soon discovers that her new friend might not be so friendly--or human--after all"--

After witnessing a bloody occult murder in the fields behind his subdivision, Lars is sent by his dad to rendezvous with an aunt he's never met who has very weird powers -- but Lars is almost killed before they can meet. At age sixteen, Lars suddenly has deadly enemies -- the Witch Kind -- a powerful secret cult with members in many places who practice the darkest kind of Magic. Lars was never a believer in Magic, but now he must learn a lot about it very quickly in order to survive. Lars learns from Aunt Helen that he comes from a Magical family, which his parents kept a secret, and she introduces him to new friends, Seers and Changers, each with different kinds of Magical knowledge. Lars's new friends will give him a crash course in Magical spells, while also teaching him how to discover magical powers he never knew he had. In the process, he meets a lively shape-changing girl who quickly becomes very fond of him. Lars learns that his dad has suddenly been confined to a mental institution. He must return to his little commuter town, Fairchance, to try and find out what has happened to his dad. Lars and Helen return to Fairchance and immediately come under attack from The Witch Kind, a number of whom are leaders of his community. By chance, he saves the life of the daughter of one of the cultists --but the body count is rising, and the Witch Kind is planning a ritual that will open a door to demonic evil on a grand scale. Lars must discover the cult's secret meeting place, and the identity of their leader in Fairchance and put the Witch Kind out of business. If he can't he's doomed, and an ancient evil will be unleashed on the world.

A boy in the Philippines is taken by a monster, and the only thing that can save him is another monster.A family find themselves driving home on a road that goes nowhere during a night that never ends, all the while pursued by a creature of pure darkness.Anna goes to her childhood home and learns some dark truths about her lineage.Chad Robert Morgan returns to the world of The Last Rite with three short stories of supernatural horror.

Keep the lights on. Bone-chilling scary stories for Teens. It is time for teens to read...and be a little bit scared... This collection of 6 brand new bone-chilling Halloween stories for teens promises to keep them reading...and also perhaps ask for the lights to be kept on. From werewolves, statues, and ghosts (and more) this promises to entertain and scare. Stories included in this Halloween Bundle for teens: The Curse of MalechutosThe SirenThe GobblerBridge Number TwoLure of the WerewolfThe CaveThis book makes a great gift for your teen and pre-teens who loves a good fun scary read over Halloween or any other time of year. Grab a Copy Today!

What do you do when you're a skeleton and you can't lie down peacefully? Maybe you go visit your family! In this spooky, funny, sweet tale, a scary skeleton goes home to visit a boy who's not afraid to keep his skeleton grandpa company. In the end, the boy helps his grandpa go back to bed in his grave, and makes sure that the skeleton won't be coming out again at night to keep him awake. Told in amusing, mysterious verse and rich illustrations, Skeleton Grandpa turns the tables on fear and reassures children that they possess inner courage, wisdom, patience, and daring. You can view a video preview of the book here: https: //youtu.be/BnTrYJLICZ4

Set more than one hundred years after the Borden murders, this propulsive, supernatural thriller imagines what might happen if history were to repeat itself today. Perfect for fans of Kara Thomas and Courtney Summers!When Mariella Morse accuses her boyfriend, Vik Gomez, of murdering her wealthy parents with an axe, the town is quick to believe her. It doesn’t help that Vik is caught standing over her parents’ bodies with blood on his hands, unable to remember anything about the night in question.But Vik’s sister, Tessa, knows that Vik would never be capable of such a gruesome crime. Haunted by the mistakes she made that led her family to move to Fall River, MA in the first place, she sets out to prove her brother’s innocence.Tessa’s search for answers will lead her into a sprawling, notoriously cursed forest, where she and Mariella must face a darkness that has lurked within their town since before the days of Lizzie Borden—the original axe murderess of Fall River.

"A teenager's suicide in the Midwest town of Loving, Ohio, leads a group of their friends down a terrifying path of cult conspiracy and supernatural horror. [This book] is a return to surreal, character-driven horror ... [in which] the teenagers have been mysteriously vanishing day-by-day, but when a bizarre killer begins terrorizing the town, Sloane and her friends vow to make it out of Ohio, even if it kills them"--

They'll lure you in with fruit and gems and liquor and dancing, merriment to remember for the rest of your life. But that's an illusion. The market is death itself.Beneath the streets of York, the goblin market calls to the Wickett women-the family of witches that tends to its victims. For generations, they have defended the old cobblestone streets with their magic. Knowing the dangers, they never entered the market-until May Wickett fell for a goblin girl, accepted her invitation, and became inextricably tied to the world her family tried to protect her from. The market learned her name, and even when she and her sister left York for Boston to escape it, the goblins remembered.Seventeen years later, Lou, May's niece, knows nothing of her magical lineage or the twisted streets, sweet fruits, and incredible jewels of the goblin market. But just like her aunt, the market calls to her, an echo of a curse that won't release its hold on her family. And when her youngest aunt, Neela, is kidnapped by goblins, Lou discovers just how real and dangerous the market is.To save her, both May and Lou will have to confront their family's past and what happened all those years ago. But everything-from the food and wares, to the goblins themselves-is a haunting temptation for any human who manages to find their way in. And if Lou isn't careful, she could end up losing herself to the market, too.

A new quirky-funny book from the author of Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer about a boy whose plans for the summer go sideways when the ghost of his great-great-grandmother demands his attention.HD Schenk is a maker--an inventor, someone who builds cool stuff. He's got a plan for the summer: he'll build his own computer and enter it in the county fair. Then everyone will know who he is and what he can do. To earn enough money for the parts he'll need, HD has promised to clear out his uncle's overflowing basement. No big deal, right? But there's more in that basement than HD bargained for. On his first trip down there, a voice only he can hear starts talking to him. About...sauerkraut?Who knew the ghost of his great-great-grandmother was haunting an old pickling crock? She's got a grand plan, too. She wants HD to help make her famous recipe for sauerkraut and enter it in the county fair so that she can be declared pickle queen.After some initial shock, HD is willing enough to help. This ghost is family, after all. But only HD can really see and hear his Oma, which is going to make it hard for her to win on her own...Kelly Jones spins a wonderfully goofy ghost tale that celebrates creative problem solving, family ties, and makers of every variety.

THE UNMISSABLE FOLLOW-UP TO THE EXPLOSIVE YA HORROR NOVEL, I FEED HER TO THE BEAST AND THE BEAST IS ME.Monsters and mortals, rejoice! Acheron is back . . .Though Laure has tried to close the lid on her ballet shoes and the feelings she once held for dance since the Palais Garnier incident two months ago, Laure is spinning out. Between partying, drinking, and avoiding anything and, well, everyone, she has no time to be anything but a monster. But when Laure stumbles across a mysterious dead body during one of her nights out, she's forced to notice the cracks stretching beyond herself.Below the streets of Paris, Elysium is dying, and Acheron and Lethe's influence is spilling into the streets like a blight. Laure isn't the only of Elysium's beasts to rise from the ruins of Palais Garnier, and someone is mobilizing an army of monsters with plans greater than Laure, Andor, and Keturah could have ever guessed. While Laure is warring between her wants and Acheron's ever-demanding appetite, she and her circle of monsters are left to reckon with a not-so-simple question: how do you save yourself from oblivion?Jamison Shea's writing reaches terrifying new heights in this vicious sequel to I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me.

Deliciously dark and dangerously addictive, Wilder Girls meets A Deadly Education in this queer dark academia YA thriller from the author of the sensational The Boy Who Steals Houses, filled with twisted fairy tales and monsters that will keep you up at night. 'No one would want a heart like his. But he'd still cut it out and given it away.' On the first day back at boarding school, Andrew can't wait to find refuge in the twisted fairy tales that he writes for Thomas - the boy with hair like autumn leaves. But Thomas' parents have vanished, and he has blood on his sleeve. Stranger still, Thomas won't talk to Andrew, even though he's always loved sketching the monstrous creatures from Andrew's stories. Desperate to discover the truth, Andrew follows Thomas into the forest and catches him fighting a nightmarish monster - his drawings have come to life. To ensure no one else dies, the boys must battle the creatures every night. But as their obsession with each other grows stronger, so do the monsters, and Andrew fears the only way to stop them might be to destroy their creator. From the author of the sensational The Boy Who Steals Houses

Filled with deadly secrets and the monsters you thought only existed in your mind ... You've heard of Frankenstein's monster, you've heard of Dracula, but have you heard of the Villa Diodati? Eve, Griffin, Hal and Ren embark on a summer they'll never forget at the birthplace of all things Gothic. The summer is beset by mysterious happenings, as the monsters they create begin to clamber out of their minds. Events rise to a horrible climax when, on a dark and stormy night, one of the villa's guests is found dead and each of our foursome becomes a suspect in a gruesome murder.It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. But when the stuff of nightmares becomes their reality, will they make it out alive? Perfect for fans of Wednesday and Stranger Things.

This is Noir: Noir exists everywhere, and in every Noir weird stuff is always happening. Ghosts, monsters, ghouls, and more reside there. The destination is set, so travel across the states for chills, thrills, and things that go bump in the night........ Something is different about Gran...It's been years since fourteen-year-old Dean has seen his Gran. After the death of his Paps, the tomato farm he had built started to fail, and Gran sort of just dropped off the face of the earth. But now Dean's mom is desperate to have someone watch him over the summer, which means Dean will be spending his summer with Gran on the farm. He expects his time to be filled with hard work and no Wi-Fi. What ends up happening is a spiral of events that leads him to believe something otherworldly is wrong with Gran. With the help of the pastor's daughter, Felicity, the two will be sent on a mission to find answers about the occult and possession, and discover what lengths someone will go to in order to keep the legacy of a loved one alive.

During the final years of the Soviet Union, its government started building an ultra-secret airbase in the center of a vast wilderness. Its secrecy outstripped its management such that construction continued despite its abandonment. Occasionally, an errant aircraft drops somebody on its tarmac, and they are never seen alive again. At the end of a late night international flight from India to Russia, a weary traveler finds himself deposited in a lonely ramp of an empty terminal. As he navigates its endless gates and corridors, this hapless traveler begins to realize he has landed in no ordinary airport.

Be careful what you check out... Ever since he could remember Simon Santiago could see and talk to the dead. When his parents are killed in a train accident, he is sent to live with his estranged con man of an uncle. Soon Simon is put on as his uncle's assistant in a Ghost Expelling agency and carries out the hard work for his uncle: getting rid of the ghosts. Now thirteen with his ability at full maximum Simon is ready to take on bigger tasks with his uncle's booming agency getting more and more calls day by day. When a phone call comes in from a desperate librarian at an infamously haunted library, Simon is all too eager to get to work. But when they arrive at the sprawling mansion of a library, Simon quickly discovers that there's something else haunting the library and its thirst for Simon's soul is dangerously clear from the moment he steps foot into the building. With the help of one of the young library volunteers and a mute spirit of the library, Simon is determined to find out what is really going on before his soul as well as his uncle's are added to the ever-growing system of The Library of Souls. Will Simon and his new friend make it out alive?Find out in the brand new Middle-Grade Horror novel from YouTube personality Richard Denney, featuring an array of spooky photographs that will chill you to the bone... if you're not already dead.

En la tranquila ciudad de San Lorenzo pareciera que nunca sucede nada fuera de lo normal. Hasta que la llegada de la joven artista, Alicia Marqués, pareciera cambiarlo todo. Alicia ha estado buscando toda su vida algo que llene su vacío corazón, y pintar la antigua Hacienda Marginea parece ser la respuesta. Pero su tozudez hará que viejas historias de antaño recobren vida, aunque el joven y huraño dueño de la hacienda trate de impedirlo. Las sombras del pasado oscurecerán la ciudad costera, y la chica afuerina parece ser la culpable. ¿Lograrán Alicia y sus primos hacer que San Lorenzo vuelva a la normalidad que le caracterizaba? En esta segunda edición, Carolina Savard H. nos trae una reeditada historia, con más ilustraciones que acompañarán esta entretenida aventura. Un clásico de esta autora chilena que no podrás dejar de leer.

In her first book for middle grade readers, New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young brings together a thrilling ghost story, a heartfelt coming of age journey, and a poignant reminder that those we've loved and lost are never far away--perfect for fans of Bone Hollow and The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street.Twelve-year-old Calista Wynn will lose her ability to speak with the dead on her thirteenth birthday.And with only a few weeks left, children have started going missing.When Calista meets The Tall Lady--an angry spirit with a grudge against Calista, her family, and the entire town--she knows she's found the ghost responsible for the disappearances.It's up to Calista, the only one who can see The Tall Lady, to stop her. If she doesn't, Calista won't just lose her powers... she'll lose everyone she has left.