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1) Carrie
Author
Language
English
Description
Carrie has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to prom night by Tommy is a dream - the first step to social acceptance. But events take a turn on that night as Carrie is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her.
2) Starve Acre
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's son, Ewan, has died suddenly at the age of five. Starve Acre, their house by the moors, was to be full of life, but is now a haunted place. Juliette, convinced Ewan still lives there in some form, seeks the help of the Beacons, a seemingly benevolent group of occultists. Richard, to try and keep the boy out of his mind, has turned his attention to the field opposite the house,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the...
Author
Series
Patel and Pardoe volume 3
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Det. Sgt. Jamila Patel and Det. Con. Jerry Pardoe have reluctantly acquired a reputation in the Metropolitan Police for their ability to tackle bizarre and apparently supernatural crimes. Now they have been called back together after three bodies are found in a London basement - bodies which have been taken apart, roasted and eaten. The markings on the wall suggest this might have been done by some kind of religious cult - and as more people are kidnapped...
5) The kindness
Author
Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A shipping container is mysteriously dumped in the Swedish port town of Norrtalje. Due to their ignorance of its ownership it isn't until a week has passed that the authorities can have it forced open. There the remains of 28 refugees are found, a situation of unrelenting horror. Not only that; a black sludge pours out which contaminates the river and is the cause of a new, sickening dread that affects Norrtalje's inhabitants, causing a lack of trust,...
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Nemo Frisby used to be a detective. Now he drives an Uber between billionaire mansions in California. But he never lost the nose for the case - and when his house cleaner Trinity Fox discovers a young woman lying dead in her neighbourhood, she persuades him to help her prove it wasn't suicide. Their investigation leads them to the Bel Air home of a wealthy movie producer, who built his mansion over a Native American burial site. Ancient mythology...
Author
Publisher
Electric Monkey
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When new girl Rachel Chavez joins an elite high school in NYC, she's hoping to put a past tragedy behind her. A fresh start where nobody knows what happened to her, or what she did. But then Rachel stumbles across the Mary Shelley club. The purpose of the club is simple: to see who can come up with the best Fear Test, terrifying a chosen victim. Despite the twisted nature of the club, Rachel starts to feels at home she's beginning to think she's found...
Author
Series
Platserna volume 3
Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In the autumn of 2016 a wave of suicides swept through Stockholm's underworld. Investigative journalist Tommy T's star has faded since he was a fixture on Sweden's talk-show circuit. His deep dive into the mysterious suicides - and the role of the elusive 'X' who seems to be behind everything - will be his ticket back to the top. And the trail is hot: it leads him first to a murdered friend and then to a huge batch of cocaine. Meanwhile, Tommy's seventeen-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
St Philomena's military hospital has been abandoned for over three years. Now Lilian Chesterfield, who works for one of the most successful building companies in England, is in charge of developing it into a luxury housing complex. But as soon as she and her colleagues started work in the Jacobean-style mansion, their dream turned into a nightmare. They heard screaming from wards full of empty beds. They heard doors slamming and found cutlery scattered...
10) The gathering
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A small Alaskan town. A missing boy. A brutal murder. A detective brought in from out of state to assist the former sherriff who investigated a similar murder twenty-five years ago. But are they hunting a twisted psychopath - or something even more terrifying?
Author
Series
Patel and Pardoe volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A young woman is rushed to the hospital with stabbing pains. The chief surgeon performs a C-section, and delivers a catastrophically malformed foetus that is somehow alive. Sewage engineer Gemma is plunged into a ghostly darkness in the tunnel where she works. She escapes, but her boss goes missing in the chaos. He is later found alive but his legs have been severed and his eyes pulled out. DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel of the supernatural squad...
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 6
Language
English
Description
While exploring the attic on his birthday, Max comes across an old mirror there. No ordinary mirror either - this one is magic - it can turn you invisible.
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Something inhuman has come to Tarker's Mills, as unseen as the full moon riding the night sky high above. The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the werewolf's fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her cosy bedroom. Now scenes of unbelievable horror unfold each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker's Mills. No one knows who will be...
14) Alice isn't dead
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Keisha Lewis mourned the loss of her wife, Alice, who disappeared two years ago. There was a search, there was grief beyond what she thought was possible. There was a funeral. But then Keisha began to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead. And she is showing up at the scene of every tragedy in the country. Keisha shrugs off her old life and hits the road as a trucker - hoping on some...
15) Seven ghosts
Author
Publisher
Barrington Stoke
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Jake and the other finalists in a writing competition have been invited to a stately house for a tour like no other. As their guide leads them through grand rooms, hidden nooks, and magnificent grounds, they hear the stories of seven ghosts who haunt the halls. But strange shapes and shadows follow Jake as he journeys through the house and with each tale that Jake hears, he begins to feel more uneasy. All is not as it seems and soon Jake will discover...
16) Raggy Maggie
Author
Series
Invisible Fiends volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy is the hardest kid in school and a horrible bully. So Kyle could almost find it funny that Billy's childhood invisible friend was a little dolly named Raggy Maggie. Almost, but not quite because now she is back, and she wants Kyle to play a game. The game is very simple. Find where she's hidden Billy, or Billy dies.
17) Spook's - Alice
Author
Series
Publisher
Red Fox
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Over the years, Alice has fought evil side by side with the Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward. But now Alice is alone - in the realm of the dark. And the creatures she has helped to banish there, now have the chance to take their revenge. Alice must seek the final weapon needed to destroy the Fiend for good. If she fails, the world will fall into despair and darkness.
Author
Publisher
The Borough Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
1902, Brookhants School for Girls: students Flo and Clara are madly in love with each other, as well as completely obsessed with 'The Story of Mary MacLane', the scandalous debut memoir by 19 year old MacLane. A few months later they are found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. Within five years the school is closed. But not before three more people die on the property, each in a troubling...
19) Help the witch
Author
Publisher
Unbound
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A collection of folk ghost stories, visiting unsettling territory previously reached by E.F. Benson and M.R. James.
Author
Series
Patel and Pardoe volume 4
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A severed head. A grisly series of murders across London is baffling local authorities. Eyewitnesses describe suspects who are only partially visible - one appears to have no feet, another no head, a fourth is missing his entire right side. These murders are neither straightforward nor easily explained, which means there are only two people fit to investigate: DS Jamila Patel and DC Jerry Pardoe, who are used to tracking spirits intent on causing...
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