Horror- & Geistergeschichten

Kyle Yates, a 14-year-old orphan, is adopted by Diabolos Je Rouge, to line in the sprawling Sevenoakes Manor. Since he is the newest resident of the manor, he must participate in a seven-year ritual know as The Festival. Je Rouge takes Kyle on a tour of the manor and its grounds. Statues of young boys and girls, each in different period clothing, decorate the manor. The next morning The Festival begins. The object of The Festival is to win ten tasks and receive ten keys. At the end of the contest, Kyle must make a potion that will reveal the correct key. Once found, the statues come to life, and the past participants will be freed to return to their own time. But should Kyle fail, he, too, will become imprisoned as a stone statue until another challenger arrives to free him. The last participant to free the participants, Melvin Horton, won The Festival but failed to free one girl. Kyle is helped by two dwarfs, Enov and Gladys, and the ghosts of the part participants who tell of the young lady kept in glass from the first Festival of over two-hundred years ago. Now Kyle's determination is to rescue the young girl and free the past participants. But the challenges stand in his way: ghosts, attacked by flying objects, evil gargoyles, a lake monster, flying daggers, and the constant nagging advice by others to quit.

Getting knocked unconscious in a tomb at the local cemetery wasn't exactly how Calvin expected a game of truth or dare to go. Worse, all but one of his friends ditched him. But that's the least of Calvin's worries. He can't sleep, his hair is falling out, and according to his best friend, Jaylen, he stinks of something awful. And now a mysterious stranger named Belmont has offered to help Calvin deal with his new condition and try to live a normal life-a normal life as a zombie!Soon, fake hair, monthly embalming, wearing industrial strength deodorizer, and a steady diet of brains make up Calvin's regular routine. He's just starting to fit back into the norms of society when things take a turn for the worse, and Calvin wakes up one night covered in someone else's blood. As his memories piece back together, he realizes something evil has taken control of his zombie body, and the murders start piling up. Calvin must race against time to put a stop to the sinister force bending his will and using him as a weapon, before he kills again.

As Jade rebuilds her life after last autumn's trauma, Sarah decides joining track is the perfect distraction. While Jade's figuring out how to compete without giving away her wereanimal status, Bevin finds someone nice he can date. When summer begins, Jade travels cross country with José, Owen, and Tanner to visit colleges. A run-in with rogue werewolves triggers new epsilon abilities and an unlikely alliance develops. The question becomes: can she save her new ally or will she end up dead?

Lucas Sinclair is tired of feeling like an outsider. With Max dealing with her own problems and Will and El leaving town, he has no one to lean on. And he could really use someone after spending the last few years fighting monsters, dodging international spies, and surviving the tragic events at Starcourt. But then high school starts and Lucas suddenly has options beyond playing D&D and being bullied. After connecting with someone on the basketball team - one of the few other Black students at school - Lucas begins to understand what it means to be a Black teen in Indiana, just as his town is plunged into trouble once again. Will he be able to find his place in Hawkins in time to save it?

Prinzessin Laya würde so gerne bei dem großen Fest im königlichen Schloss mittanzen ¿ aber sie traut sich nicht. Was ist, wenn sie dabei über ihre eigenen Füße stolpert? Das wäre ihr zu peinlich! Mitten in der Nacht wird sie von einem leisen Kichern geweckt. Ist das etwa der sprechende Stuhl, dem sie schon einmal begegnet war? Auf der Suche nach ihm trifft sie auf das kleine Gespenst Spuki, das sie zu einer turbulenten Gespensterparty einlädt.Wird Laya ihre Angst, sich beim Tanzen zu blamieren, überwinden und lüftet sie das Geheimnis des rätselhaften Stuhls, der alles im Schloss durcheinanderwirbelt? Eine spannende Geschichte für mutige Kinder ¿ und alle, die es noch werden wollen!

Der Gedanke daran, wie häufig ich mir gewünscht habe, im alten England in einem prachtvollen Herrenhaus zu leben, lässt mich höhnisch auflachen. Ja, gewünscht habe ich es mir. Unzählige Male. Aber ganz bestimmt nicht so! Ein Jahr lang soll Juno einer alten Lady auf Staunton Hall aus ihren geliebten Klassikern vorlesen. Ein Traumjob! Sie ist fest entschlossen, sich nicht mal von dem faszinierenden jungen Lord Witham ablenken zu lassen. Doch wie kann sie das seltsame Scharren in ihrem Zimmer ignorieren und die merkwürdige Musik, die nur sie zu hören scheint?Droht Juno nicht nur ihr Herz zu verlieren - sondern auch ihren Verstand?

Ein liebevoll gestaltetes interaktives Bilderbuch, das Kindern die Angst vor Unbekanntem nimmt! Merkwürdige Nachbarn leben in der Gruselstraße. Schaurige Gespenster, ein riesiger Yeti und ein furchterregend bellender Hund wohnen dort - und an all ihren Häusern muss das Mädchen vorbeigehen, wenn sie Opa besuchen will. Klar, dass sie erst einmal Angst hat. Doch manchmal muss man nur hinter die Türen schauen, um sich nicht mehr zu fürchten, weiß der Opa. Und so macht er sich mit seiner Enkelin auf, einmal die ungewöhnlichen Nachbarn in der Gruselstraße zu besuchen. Denn hinter den Fassaden gibt es so viele Überraschungen zu entdecken: eine Kostümparty der Gespenster, einen gärtnernden Yeti und einen sehr verpeilten Minotaurus.

From the author of New York Times bestseller House of Hollow comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night.Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to bear—that her sister was murdered by a serial killer and there is precisely nothing she can do to change it. If there’s anything Zara cannot stand it's feeling powerless, so she decides she will do whatever it takes—even if that means partaking in the occult—to bring her sister back from the dead.Jude Wolf might be the daughter of a billionaire, but she is also undeniably cursed. After a deal with a demon went horribly wrong, her soul is now slowly turning necrotic. Flowers and insects die in her wake and monstrous things come to taunt her at night. If Jude can’t find the right someone to fix her mistake, she fears she’ll die very soon.Enter Emer Bryne: the solution to both Zara and Jude's predicaments. The daughter of a witch, Emer sells spells to women in desperate situations willing to sacrifice a part of their soul in exchange for a bit of power, a bit of magic to change their lives. But Emer has a dark past all her own—and as her former clients are murdered one-by-one, she knows it’s followed her all the way to London.As Zara and Jude enter Emer's orbit, they'll have to team up to stop the killer—before they each end up next on his list.

Endlich! Der Werwolf Bram hat es auf die Schule der Bösewichte geschafft. Jetzt kann er seine Familie stolz machen und lernen, ein richtiger Schurke zu sein. Blöd nur, dass Bram eigentlich ganz gern Bitte und Danke sagt und seine Hausaufgaben macht. Als die neue Klasse in Gruppen eingeteilt wird, die im großen Wettkampf um den Titel Bösewicht der Woche gegeneinander antreten müssen, ist Bram hilflos. Was bedeutet es überhaupt, ein Bösewicht zu sein? Und dürfen Bösewichte eigentlich Freund*innen finden? Böse zu sein, war noch nie so gut! Eine Schule, ein Ziel: endlich Bösewicht zu werden. Doch gibt es böse ohne gut? Lerne die Welt der Schurken-Lehrlinge kennen und erlebe gemeinsam mit Werwölfen, Geistern, Hexen und Skeletten den Schulalltag. Eine schaurig schöne Geschichte über Teamarbeit, Freundschaft und die Frage: Wer will ich sein? Der erste Band aus der Debüt-Reihe "Schule der Bösewichte" von Ryan Hammond. Untermalt mit lustigen Schwarz-Weiß-Illustrationen für noch mehr Spaß beim Lesen.

The moment I stepped foot in this house I knew I was going to die, or maybe I was dying before I got here. I don't know, Mom always said I was a hypochondriac, but this feels different. There's something seriously strange about Harker Drake and finding out the truth will be the death of me. Werewolf, wizard, shapeshifter, heck maybe he's a robot and I'm just overthinking it. I thought he was a vampire, but like, come on, that would be so obvious. At the very least, he's totally annoying and clearly has an attitude problem. I guess I can still leave wraith on the table, but human? Fat chance. How am I supposed to live with him when he clearly doesn't want me here? Classes haven't even started yet, and this school year already bites.

Book four in the tragic series about the Sinister-Winterbottom twins, who must solve one wretched mystery after the next, brought to you by #1 New York Times bestselling author KIERSTEN WHITE. The electrifying penultimate adventure finds the Sinister-Winterbottoms at the manor of Mr. Frank and Dr. Stein!After escaping from Edgaren’t and Dr. Jay, the Sinister-Winterbottoms and their friends arrive at Stein Manor Science Camp. They all work together to distract the friendly teenage camp director so they can explore and look for clues about where their parents might be.Meanwhile, Theo and Alexander settle on a daring plan. They know exactly where Edgaren’t is going to be: coming for them, and the books. This time, they’ll be ready. This time, they’ll get answers. And this time, they won’t trust the adult in charge, which is easy enough when it’s enormous, lurking, unfriendly Mr. Frank. But as they get closer to opening the books and their parents’ histories, an unexpected foe is watching everything they do. . . .Fake volcanoes! Real sea caves! Strangely modified frogs! Startling betrayal! And a lightning-struck manor! all combine for the electrifying penultimate Sinister Summer adventure.