Horror- & Geistergeschichten

Ghost's, Spectres, Ghoul'sand things that make your spine tingleare featured in this compilationof eleven spooky tales.The moon is full and the Werewolveshowl. Cold, stark terror awaitsthe reader.

"From the author of the New York Times bestselling My Dearest Darkest comes another incredible sapphic horror. When four best friends with a hunger for human flesh attend a music festival in the desert they discover a murderous plot to expose and vilify the girls and everyone like them. This summer is going to get gory."--Publisher's description.

Squid Game meets Agatha Christie in this locked-room virtual reality murder mystery, where the only option is to win - or die trying._______________Video games have never been more murderous. Veronica wakes up trapped with four strangers in a sprawling manor house in a snow storm with a dead body, a mystery right out of an Agatha Christie novel. It feels so real - but it isn't. This is VR and this is THE Game; a rumoured Easter Egg hidden in other VR games that draws you into a competition for a prize beyond your wildest dreams. And there's no escaping the VR world until the Game is won.But while Veronica and her fellow players are trying to figure out the puzzle, something is not right in the VR world. Blackouts, glitches, NPCs acting strange, and a mysterious figure haunting their footsteps. Then when a player dies, and also dies in real life, all hell breaks loose. Without warning, the game Veronica thought she was playing gets overshadowed by a much darker, and much more real, mystery: who is killing us?'It may not be a game Veronica wanted to play, but it's one that she has to win - or die trying.

When their mother suddenly dies, sisters Charlotte and Maddi begin to suspect that their father and his new girlfriend played a part in her death, and they spiral into paranoia with horrifying consequences.

“Vampires going to high school, but make it queer. Sterling delivers a fresh, thoughtful take on beloved paranormal tropes with a delightfully bloody romance.” —Mara Fitzgerald, author of Beyond the Ruby Veil From the author of These Witches Don't Burn comes another paranormal romance for fans of Richelle Mead and Stephenie Meyer.Elise Beaumont is cursed. With every touch, she experiences exactly how her loved ones will die. And after her brother's death—a death she predicted but was unable to prevent—Elise is desperate to get rid of her terrible gift, no matter the cost. Claire Montgomery also has a unique relationship with death, mostly because she’s already dead. Technically, anyway. Claire is a vampire, and she's been assigned by the Veil to help Elise master her rare Death Oracle powers.At first, Elise is reluctant to work with a vampire, but when she predicts a teacher’s imminent murder, she's determined to stop the violent death, even if it means sacrificing her own future to secure Claire's help.The trouble is, Claire and Elise aren't the only paranormals in town—a killer is stalking the streets, and Claire can't seem to shake the pull she feels toward Elise, a romance that could upend the Veil’s mission. But as Elise and Claire grow closer, Elise begins to wonder—can she really trust someone tasked with securing her loyalty? Someone who could so easily kill her? Someone who might hold the key to unraveling her brother's mysterious death?

A young girl might just be the last hope for her ancient Scottish clan against their greatest for yet...

Hilda and her friends Wood Man and Frida are on the case when ships start disappearing in Trolberg Bay.

Dark magic meets the Wild West in Brad McLelland & Louis Sylvester's The Fang of Bonfire Crossing: Legends of the Lost Causes, second in the rip-roaring middle-grade adventure series filled with scrappy heroes and diabolical villains.Keech Blackwood and his band of fellow orphans demand justice for their fallen families. But the road to retribution is a long and hard-fought journey. After defeating Bad Whiskey Nelson, the man who burned Keech's home to the ground, the Lost Causes have a new mission: find Bonfire Crossing, the mysterious land that holds clues to the whereabouts of the all-powerful Char Stone. Along the way they'll have to fend off a shapeshifting beast, a swarm of river monsters, and a fearsome desperado named Big Ben Loving who conjures tornadoes out of thin air. It's an epic standoff between the Lost Causes and the outlaw Reverend Rose, a powerful sorcerer who would be unstoppable with the Stone in his possession. With the world-and vengeance-hanging in the balance, the Lost Causes are ready for battle.Praise for Legends of the Lost Causes:A Junior Library Guild Selection"This is a fun and exciting story, written with the utmost respect for the Osage culture." -Wah-Zha-Zhi Cultural Center"A rollicking adventure filled with mystery and magic that crackles like a brush fire." -Emma Trevayne, author of The House of Months and Years "Thrilling, dark, and full of heart, this is a Western like none I've ever read. I loved it." -Stefan Bachmann, author of The Peculiar and The Whatnot

In Book 5 in the Creature from My Closet series, Rob Burnside is visited by an especially strange closet creature! Rob Burnside thinks he's getting the hang of things. It almost seems as if he has learned all he needed to from his unusual closet. Beardy, the doorknob, has it locked up and there are no signs of the closet door opening again. But something slips from the closet unnoticed and that something is part Gollum, part Cat in the Hat. He's an intense creature with mad rhyming skills. When Rob's family wins a trip to Colorado, something extra makes it into his luggage. Get ready for school fights, train rides, long mysterious hikes, and a creature unlike any of the others. What Rob will discover is epic."This pitch-perfect offering should appeal to reluctant readers, not to mention the legion Wimpy Kid fans." -Shelf Awareness on the Creature from My Closet series"The text is hysterical by itself, but acts as the straight man in relation to the one-two punch of the childlike drawings and captions. . . Get multiple copies of this book; it will fly off the shelves." -School Library Journal on the Creature from My Closet seriesA Christy Ottaviano BookTitles in Obert Skye's Creature from My Closet series:WonkensteinPotterwookiePinoculaKatfishThe Lord of the HatBatneezer