Fifteen top voices in speculative fiction explore the intersection of fear and love in a haunting, at times hilarious, darkly imaginative volume.Predatory kraken that sing with and for – their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as repel. Welcome to a world where humans live side by side with monsters, from vampires both nostalgic and bumbling to an eight-legged alien who makes tea. Here you’ll find mercurial forms that burrow into warm f...
**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 that’s stalking her village. Perfect for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Grace Year. Her name is unimportant. All you must know is that today she will become one of the four saints of Haven. The elders will mark her and place the red h...
New from bestselling author Stephanie Perkins, and the perfect companion to her New York Times bestseller There's Someone Inside Your House, available now on Netflix! “The scares here are authentic, and the details meticulous, driven by a smart, distinct narrative voice. Hand this to fans of the film Midsommar who will delight in the eerie world building, the disintegration and rebuilding of interpersonal relationships, and the unseen forces of evil that threaten to break two friends apart.” –B...
Squid Games meets Black Mirror in this addictive thriller about an innocent girl’s struggle to clear her name before she falls victim to her fellow prisoners and the twisted government holding her hostage. WELCOME TO THE NEAR FUTURE, where good and honest citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society’s most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on The Postman app from the suburbanized prison island of Alcatraz 2.0. When seventeen-year-old Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on t...
Aimed at young adults this edition includes colour photographs from the movie. It is a time of darkness. With Europe on the threshold of industrial greatness, terrible and ancient powers are at work which threaten to bring down civilisation as we know it.
Readers are invited to test the creepy rides at the annual carnival, such as Reptile Petting Zoo and Booger Bog, in this scary adventure packed with over 20 spooky endings.
Wesley's not looking forward to his week at camp. He's no good at sports and he's never been Mr Popular. So when he's put in a cabin with three morons who are out to get him, he's not sure how he'll survive. But then he finds the dreamcatcher and meets Louella. Louella promises him that together they'll take care of the bullies once and for all, but there's a price...
Devon March is a fourteen-year-old boy with strange, unexplained powers. And - since the time he was just six years old - he has had to fight off periodic attacks from the hideous demons that live deep down inside his closet. He has never understood why he has these powers, or why his closet is a gateway into Hell. When his father dies, Devon is sent to live at a mansion called Ravenscliff, perched atop Devil's Rock on the craggy coast of New England. Here, Devon suspects he will find the...
Finn hates water. She's haunted by terrifying nightmares in which she is running before a huge wave that threatens to engulf hern watery darkness for ever. And the dreams have been worse since she, her mum and her two younger brothers arrived in Cornwall. Then she discovers the strange curse that was laid upon the cottage years ago, and she's sure vengeful Griffiths has something to do with it. She's seen him, endlessly tying and retying a length of rope, creating the knots that - superstition h...
X Files YA #15 Haunted (X-Files (HarperCollins Age 12-Up), #15)
by Ellen Steiber
Vampire Balthazar More emerges from his centuries-long isolation to help Skye Tierney, a psychic girl who once attended Evernight Academy, when she catches the attention of the cruel master vampire responsible for murdering Balthazar and his family four centuries earlier.
Lair of Dreams-- Free Preview Edition (the First 14 Chapters)
by Libba Bray
"Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island inhabited--throughout various time periods--by Vikings, vampires, ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant"--Provided by publisher.
On spring break in California, seventeen-year-old psychic Kendall attends a camp where young people with gifts like hers hone their skills, but she finds more restless spirits there, as well as the boy from her last vision.
Sixteen-year-old grim reaper Lex Bartleby tries to redeem herself among her fellow Grims by finding renegade Zara, who is indiscriminately damning souls, and stopping her once and for all.
After taking an oath to a seemingly benevolent spirit, a high school girl finds herself changing in frightening ways.
The fourth volume, The Gates of Guinée, picks up where the third book left off with Macalister LeMoyne held hostage by the Ghost Drinkers’ coven and Adele willing to risk it all to save her father, even if it means opening a portal to the Voodoo Afterworld to hunt down the spirit of one of the greatest witches who ever lived.A trip to the Afterworld might be the end of the supernatural world.As the Ghost Drinkers seep into the crevices of the Crescent City, leeching the French Quarter of magic,...
Instead of sleeping, Parker Chipp enters the dream of the last person he's had eye contact with. His exhaustion is crippling. Then he meets Mia, whose calm dreams allow him blissful rest. He must go to bizarre lengths to catch Mia's eye every day. Her eyes saved his life. Her dreams released his darkness. After four years of sleeplessness, high school junior Parker Chipp can't take much more. Every night, instead of sleeping, he enters the dreams of the last person he's made eye contact with....
'We're coming. The martyrs are awakening. Spirits are gathering. This will be our time...' In York and London, strange shapes are taking form, emerging from the shadows. And who is the man who lies in a pitch-black room, listening to a voice that seems to speak from the darkness itself? Jud Lester knows that something evil is afoot. He also knows that it can't be investigated by any normal brand of counter-intelligence... This is a case for CRYPT: a team of elite teenage agents who use their ext...