Horror- & Geistergeschichten

Tommy's 13th birthday is coming up. Much to his dismay, his parents are taking him on a trip from Kansas City to Mt. Hope, Kansas to spend his big day with his grandparents. Having spent a lot of time in Mt. Hope growing up, Tommy didn't want to spend his most important birthday in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Something felt very different about this trip, however. Frightening experiences and strange sightings cause Tommy to wonder if there were monsters now roaming in this once sleepy small town. He would soon find out the nightmarish answer to his question.

More Scary Stories for Creepy Kids - still short and spooky with a side of silly!Cozy Little Bedtime Stories - If You Dare!! We're baaaaack ... with more scary stories, recipes, and now games! Your favorite young authors Ayla, nine, and sister Calla, seven, have cooked up a whole new batch of chilling creepsters for your enjoyment. Their stories are a perfect mix of seriously spooky and wildly goofy fun for young readers. The tales are all dressed up, too, with kid-created drawings, recipes, and games. It's a whole world of fun beyond the crazy-cool reading itself. Whipping up the Bloody Brains recipe will make your supper cauliflower a delicious diversion. And playing the Oozing, Drooling Zombie Tag game will get your wiggles, jiggles, and giggles out for sure. More Scary Stories will have you snorting with laughter while hiding under the covers in a state of monster dread! --Recommended by Nine out of Ten Monsters--Swear Monster said, "This book blew my @#$%&! mind!"Lurky Turkey gushed, "The games are a gobbling good time!"Very Scary Tooth Fairy: "I love this book even more than rotten teeth! And the recipes are to die for."Stupid Cupid: "Barf is green, roses are lame, I screamed when I read this ... and you'll do the same!" --Kids and their parents like it too--Jack, age 7: "I was scared and giggling at the same time! I LOVE it!" Midori, age 7: "I love reading these with my friends at sleepovers and creeping ourselves out!" Chelsea, a parent: "The games are creative & hilarious, so fun with a big or small group!" For more content, be sure to read our first book Scary Stories for Creepy Kids and listen to our podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

Be careful with this book Karlie, it bites!Karlie has yet to decide what to get her little brother Conner as a birthday gift. What do you get for a seven-year-old boy? But when the monster coloring book calls to her, she and her best friend Ann know they have found him the perfect gift.Conner takes to the coloring book right away and can't take his eyes away from it, but there's something weird about this coloring book, something a little bit too life-like. Then, when Conner's personality changes, the monsters from the book start popping up all over town. Karlie now knows for sure that the coloring book is evil and that she needs to stop it. So Karlie and Ann must go monster hunting, stop the coloring book, and save her little brother.

Be careful what you wish for, it just might come true.Return to Lochview with the highly anticipated second book in the Lochview Mysteries series.It's Tyler's first week at Caledonian Woods, but teachers and detentions are the least of his worries. With a dark and ancient power in the palm of his hand, he is about to learn a valuable lesson. All power comes at a price, and the Trickster expects to be paid.

Demons won't stay buried for everTwo years on and the group of friends living at Waxley Black Manor have moved on from the mystery of Sam's death. But finding out how she died and about the life she left behind is still a burning need inside her. The cottage where she lived draws her to it every day and she's convinced it holds the answer. But all she can do is watch from the sidelines at the family she doesn't remember. An invisible force stops her getting any closer and she senses she's not alone. The prickling suspicion that someone is always following her. Watching and waiting in the shadows. As she sleeps, snippets of a dark, addictive stranger plague her dreams until she finally discovers what he is - and that he's everything she should abhor. But she can't. He's become more than just a friend. He's from her past and is literally the only person who can help her find out the truth. They join forces and he helps her piece together what happened on that fateful day and make the most horrifying discovery of all.DEMON IN THE ATTIC is a paranormal thrill ride and number two in the Night Shades series.

Benjamin Lakewood isn't ready to live in a new town. Especially in a Cul-de-Sac in a haunted suburban town with a paranormal past, but this is where young Ben and his famous writer of a father were sent to try and uncover the town's hidden secrets. Ben lived in New York his entire life and the only real paranormal activity he's ever experienced was only in his head after watching a horror movie or reading old horror magazines under his covers at night. This will all change when he steps out to explore his new town called Growling Graves. After meeting a boy his age, who shares the same interests as hockey and horror, the two discover strange things happening right behind Ben's new house in the adjoining Cul-de-Sac where a witch named Grenadine lives. Loud noises and green lights seem to appear out of nowhere and children go missing from time to time. When the captain of the local middle school's ice hockey team goes missing, the two boys gather up some help from Ben's father, an old diary and a few other kids from the hockey team to find out what happened to their friend. Graveyards and creepy old houses are just the beginning for these boys. Will these kids finally figure out the mysteries of Growling Graves or will they be sucked up into a vortex of other missing children?

Come along into the forest and bear your heart's hidden desire.Sit in the doctor's chair and trust that the procedure will cure what ails you.Look your demons in the eye and challenge them to fight.Enter if you're daring and feel these tales raise goosebumps along your arms as they take you from modern New Jersey to fairytale lands and back again. From witches to werecats and spirits to surgeries, this collection puts queer women front and center in some of the most popular subgenres of speculative fiction. Horror, dark fantasy, and magical realism coalesce in this stunning collection of all things dark and divergent.

When a mandatory vaccine turn the people of Western Canada into zombies, a family must cross Alberta to find safety in the mountains.They must fight there way through hoards of Zombies and a military that is looking to fight them every step of the way.

The Ghost Gang is invited to record onboard a haunted cruise ship.

In this YA horror novella, Alex Armoredes pens the story of two classmates who are forced to work together in order to solve an otherworldly mystery.Arwin Argyle expects another boring day at school. Instead he is met with a series of disappearances, but only he and his classmate, Emma Li, of whom he has rarely spoken to before, remember those who have gone missing. Everyone else seems adamant that they've never existed at all.Suddenly they are forced to discover who or what is behind the mystery at the school, before everyone they know...and each other...vanish into thin air.

Adorable children's picture book of a little mouse's journey to find a talent of his own.In Whimsical Woodland Way there is an annual Whimsical Fair where the animals, fairies and unicorns all come together to share their incredible talents, This year Naughty Morty decides that he would like to have a talent just like his Whimsical friends but discovers that he is too scared, too small, too shy, too clumsy, and too weak to be like his friends. Will Naughty Morty ever discover a talent of his own?This heart-warming story of trial and error beautifully illustrates that everyone has a talent and whilst we may not be able to do all the same things as our friends, we are all wonderfully, whimsically unique and we are all talented in our own way!

Urban legends are supposed to be just that, legends. But recently, there has been a rash of unexplainable occurrences, and victims are starting to pile up. Word is that a mysterious boy appears after each incident¿

The ninth book in the New York Times bestselling series with over ten million copies in print!`Terrifyingly fun! Max Brallier¿s The Last Kids on Earth delivers big thrills and even bigger laughs.¿ Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy KidNow an award-winning Netflix show!

From the author of the Branford Boase long-listed debut The Whisperling, comes the next twist in the legacy.Gloucestershire, 1918.We whisperlings are the living voice for the dead. It's always been so. But not everyone likes it...Whisperling sisters Violet and Clemency run regular 'Messaging' sessions at their mam's canal-side pub. People come from far and wide to hear from their fathers, brothers, sons, all now ghosts of the men who died in the 'great' war. The sisters are happy to do their bit, and the service they provide is welcomed by all.That is until whisperlings begin to go missing. Girls, with the special ability to speak with the dead, are disappearing, without a trace. And perhaps what had become a prized gift is once again becoming a reason for whisperling persecution.The girls are afraid but have each other...until Clemency becomes one of the missing. The only option Violet has is to follow her sister's trail, enter a murky underworld beneath the cobbled streets of Gloucester to find her, and perhaps more than they've ever bargained for.Praise for The Whisperling:'One of the best debuts I've read in YEARS!' - Emma Carroll'A thrilling Gothic page-turner' - Jacqueline Wilson'A captivating and spine-tingling read...paints a vivid picture of the Victorian era' - BookTrust'Sends multiple shivers down the spine and delivers thrilling twists along the way' - LoveReading4Kids

Un ensemble de nouvelles sombres, à commencer par A Night, A Murder, enquête policière, puis An Other World, Moonshine et enfin Party.Un soir, les parents de Mike ont été assassinés. La police affirme que ce meurtre est l'oeuvre d'un grand meurtrier recherché, mais Mike décide d'enquêter lui-même. Entre ses voisins boulangers, un délinquant du quartier et l'étrange voisin casanier,Qui est le vrai coupable ?Attention: ce livre aborde des sujets tels que la drogue, harcèlement, maladies mentales, violence, détails gores.

Felx 'Mala has only one goal in life: to perfect the art of farming. That, coupled with being the only vampire not to develop an enhancement, leaves them unprepared for what is coming.The clans of Vampirium have become divided among the forward thinkers and the traditionalists. The raging war forces vampires to choose a side. Clans themselves become divided along the way, and Felx's hope of a peaceful life dwindles with each passing attack.Their sibling and newfound friend inform Felx of a portal to Earth. A chance at a new beginning. Should they risk starting over in a strange new world or find a place to hide on Vampirium until the war is over? If everyone they love leaves the planet, can they survive on their own?The rumors of the portal come with stories of danger. Nothing is ever easy, especially for a vampire that has never hunted.

Herzerwärmend für die kalte Jahreszeit: Der beliebte Weihnachtsklassiker in malerisch schönem Gewand von Erfolgsillustratorin Lisa Aisato! Ebenezer Scrooge liebt Geld und hasst Weihnachten. Einsam sitzt er am Weihnachtsabend vor dem erloschenen Kamin seines großen, düsteren Hauses. Draußen glitzern Schneekristalle im Schein der beleuchteten Fenster von den Nachbarhäusern, hinter denen glückliche Familien Weihnachten feiern.Mürrisch geht der alte Scrooge zu Bett, aber an diesem Abend bekommt er kein Auge zu: Er wird nacheinander von gleich drei Geistern besucht, die ihn mit auf eine Reise durch Nacht und Zeit nehmen. Und Scrooge erkennt, dass nichts so ist, wie er dachte - alles wird auf den Kopf gestellt. Ist es vielleicht doch nicht verkehrt, sich um seine Mitmenschen zu kümmern?  Vor genau 180 Jahren erschien die Erstausgabe der beliebten Weihnachtserzählung von Charles Dickens. Durch die fabelhafte Übersetzung von Gabriele Haefs und mit den fantastischen Bildern von Lisa Aisato wird dem Klassiker nun ein prächtiges neues Gewand verliehen. Für Fans von Lisa Aisatos Alle Farben des Lebens .

Neeve didn't know what he was getting into when he replied to that Craigslist ad for a job at a ranch out in Arizona. He certainly wasn't expecting to find a team of scientists researching the cryptology behind one of the most haunted ranches in America. He also didn't expect to find Samuel, dark and brooding, nor did he expect Samuel was anyone he could maybe get along with.

True-Crime obsessed Paige, and her family, move across the Atlanticto her father's eerie hometown, and it's not long before she uncoversthe town's dark history - a string of unsolved murders anddisappearances in the 90s. Will Paige solve a quarter-of-a-centurymystery, or will she be the next target?!

An unforgettable YA debut by Jamison Shea. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in a thrilling horror novel about the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back.Laure Mesny is determined to make it in the cut-throat world of ballet, and she will do anything to prove that this Black girl can take centre stage. Anything . . . Even if it means entering into a bargain with a primordial power in the Catacombs beneath Paris.Laure is promised influence and adoration - and she gets it. But that alone is not enough, not for the cruel and privileged people who surround her. Her climb to stardom leaves broken bodies in her wake, some of which aren't her doing. As she finds herself deep within this monstrous world, she is faced with the ultimate choice: will she retreat or succumb to the darkness forever?THERE WILL BE BLOOD.

THE TAKING OF JAKE LIVINGSTON meets ACE OF SPADES in this gripping new psychological thriller from Liselle Sambury, author of DELICIOUS MONSTERS! When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, with her own brother as the main suspect, Sunny takes it upon herself to discover the real killer—and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.

This fast-paced YA horror novel perfect for fans of Stranger Things throws together two former friends when their long-missing best friend suddenly reappears-five years after his disappearance, but the same age as the day he vanished.

Squid Game meets Wilder Girls in this debut sapphic supernatural thriller set in the glittering, cut-throat world of K-pop rivalry. A disgraced idol comes face-to-face with the demons of her past when she enters a competition that turns out to be a deadly trap.After a shocking scandal that abruptly ended her teen popstar career, eighteen-year-old Sunny Lee spends her days longing for her former life and cyberstalking her ex-BFF and groupmate, Candie. The two were once inseparable, but that was then - before the tragedy and heartache they left in their wake.In the here and now, Sunny is surprised to discover that Candie is attending a new K-pop workshop in her hometown. Candie might be there chasing stardom, but Sunny can't resist the chance to join her and finally confront their traumatic history. Because she still can't figure out what happened that horrible night when Mina, the third in their tight-knit trio, jumped to her death. Or if the dark and otherworldly secrets she and Candie were keeping had something to do with it . . .But the workshop doesn't bring the answers Sunny had hoped for, nor a happy reunion with Candie. Instead, Sunny finds herself haunted by ghostly visions while strange injuries start happening to her competitors - followed by even stranger mutilations to their bodies. In her race to survive, Sunny will have to expose just who is behind the carnage - and if Candie is out for blood once more - in Linda Cheng's spellbinding sapphic thriller that will have readers screaming and swooning for more.