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A madcap tale of fog and phantomsOpie and Aunt Etta think there's something funny going on when Professor Pepper announces that he's going to raise the ghost of a dead outlaw--live on stage. Can Opie cut through all t he fog to get to the bottom of the professor's plans?See the Ghost of Crookneck John! That's what Professor Pepper's sign promises, and Opie can hardly wait to see such a sight. But the unseen specter escapes from his coffin during the show, and if that weren't bad enough, the town bank is robbed too! Is Crookneck John a bandit from beyond the grave--or is more than the fog being pulled over the townsfolk's' eyes? A reissue of one of Sid Fleischman's early novels.

Pieta, a normal girl, leads a normal, uneventful life in a world of constant black rain. As the rain pours down, like it always does, she takes her usual route to school and has a pleasant conversation with her friend Danae. This is what every day is like for Pieta, and she takes a sort of everyday satisfaction from her totally normal life. But then her typical, pleasant conversation with Danae...doesn¿t happen. ¿Why...?! Why can I remember...yesterday¿s today?!!¿

THE EVERYDAY WORLD IS FULL OF STRANGE AND MAGICAL CREATURES, AND SOME OF THEM DON'T PLAY NICE...Protecting innocents in the mortal world is not a job to be taken lightly, and life for the paranormal Younglings is spiralling back to Insanityville.Stranded spirits, violent rogue vampires, and evil demons are bad enough... But now there's a serial killer on the loose.The cunning vampire ministry will go to any lengths to secure the blood of the half-angel, but can they find out Eve's identity? A tenacious vampire tracker is determined to locate her, and he's closing in.For some Younglings, love lives are blossoming; for others, love is on the verge of crumbling. And a newcomer, sent to spy on the Younglings, brings an unexpected twist. As normal, trouble follows the Younglings like a menacing cloud, and this time it arrives in the guise of savage combat vampires.To make matters worse, merciless witch hunters are stalking Millie-they will do anything to see her dead. Can the Younglings protect her?Monsters don't always have claws or fangs ... sometimes they hide in plain sight-and they're just as deadly.Being one of the Younglings can be bad for the health ...FIRE & MAGIC is the next installment in THE YOUNGLINGS series.An action-packed, gripping, full-length, coming-of-age YA paranormal fantasy, it will transport urban fantasy fans to a fascinating, supernatural world within our own. Filled with magic, suspense, danger, sizzling action and adventure, a large dose of humour, and slow-burn paranormal romance, this book will take the reader on a rollercoaster of a ride.The Younglings:Book ¿: Shadows & MagicBook ¿: Fire & MagicBook ¿: Mayhem & Magic¿This is a series that will stimulate your imagination whilst worming its way into your heart¿¿¿ It's up there with my favourite reads: 'From Blood and Ash', 'Discovery of Witches' and 'True Blood'. ¿¿¿¿ These characters are honestly in my heart to stay, much like 'Angel' and the 'Charmed' sisters are all these years later.¿¿¿¿ The Younglings are like a modern, and way hotter, Scooby squad. ¿¿¿¿ A demon, angel, werewolf, half-vampire, witch and ghost?! Plus, there's a LGBTQ+ rep, which is perfect. ¿¿

A classic Christmas ghost story set in a haunted historic house - for fans of Emma Carroll and Lucy Strange.It's Christmas, and eleven-year-old Lolli must return to London and break a promise she made to herself ¿ to never again step foot in the Victorian historic house in Spitalfields managed by her family.There, Lolli must face up to what she saw in the house several years ago and make things right for two ghosts - one friendly and one decidedly not - opening her guarded heart to people in both the living and twilight worlds.

Adrian and Holly are two cousins who have never met. However, one English summer they are introduced, and discover each other's secrets: Holly can see and speak to ghosts and Adrian can move things with his mind. On the heels of that discovery, a boy their age goes missing-and together they decide to find him, no matter what ghostly spirits may stand in their way!

The Great Gatsby meets The Inheritance Games in this gloriously twisty thriller, perfect for fans of #DarkAcademia and Leigh Bardugo's Ninth HouseOnce I had four brothers. Three of them are dead. I am next.Felix Ashe is sure of only one thing. In thirty days, on his eighteenth birthday, he will die. He might be the only one convinced of this, but the gruesome deaths of his three brothers before him seem to point to only one thing: a curse, one doomed to stop anyone inheriting his family's incredible fortune.Felix doesn't care about money, or himself, particularly. It's hard to have a stake in the future when you know you haven't got one. But he does care about his little brother Nick, very much. And when an opportunity to break the curse appears to present itself, it's impossible not to heed its dark call.Soon long-buried secrets will take Felix to the darkest underbelly of Jazz-Age New York, to the far-flung wilds of the Yorkshire moors and back again. And bound to everything is a deadly secret society who will either be Felix's downfall . . . or his one chance at redemption.

A mysterious suit of armour. A man in search of redemption. A butterfly tattoo. Can Shinobu regain his lost samurai sword and, with it, his family's honour? Can 10-year-old Sonny and his grandmother help Shinobu while keeping the peace in their community? Find new historical and cultural context in this full-colour edition.

Tuck Everlasting meets The Village in Shadow Grave, a delightfully eerie middle grade novel by Marina Cohen about a boy trapped in a strange town where secrets turn deadly and the unnatural lurks in the night. Twelve-year-old Arlo is afraid of fire, creepy TV shows, and even his own shadow-but most of all, he's afraid of losing his mother to the disease that nearly claimed her life a year ago.During a Thanksgiving road trip, a sudden collision with a strange beast in the middle of the road totals the family's car, and Arlo, his mom, and his sister end up stranded in a small town.There's something off about Livermore. No one has a phone or a car, and the townspeople aren't exactly friendly. Without phone service to make a call for help, the family stays at the Samuels' mansion, but inexplicable sightings at night set Arlo on edge. When he stumbles upon a dark secret that the town's inhabitants will kill to keep, getting out of Livermore becomes a matter of life or death.

The third book in the spine-chilling Fright Watch series follows the local monster mask maker¿and a mask that comes to life on Halloween nightHaving suffered from anxiety attacks since she was eight years old, creating monsters has become a sort of therapy for Marion Jones: When she sculpts and paints, her fingers don¿t tingle, the heaviness lifts from her chest, and she can actually breathe. So instead of grabbing pizza and milkshakes after school like most other kids in South Haven, Marion holes up in her room, working away on her monsters. And it¿s paid off, because she¿s just finished her first full-face mask: a gruesome sea monster she¿s named Winston. However, Halloween arrives with a Super Blue Blood Moon, and its powers somehow manage to bring Winston to life. To make matters worse, Marion¿s crush, Tyler Dash, becomes the object of Winston¿s possession as soon as he tries on the mask, turning him into a red-flannel and Converse high-top wearing Creature from Connecticut. Marion has no choice: She has to follow Tyler to the Halloween dance to try and stop him. Will she be able to figure out what¿s happened to Tyler and stop the monster from wreaking further havoc on the school? Or has she made a real-life monster that¿s here to stay?

Trick or Treat? Read ... if you dare! Six spooky stories to send shivers down your spine.

This collection contains the best of his prose works, including of course the well-known masterpieces 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (the ultimate haunted house story), 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (the very first detective story in fiction).

Deepdene has been swept by what seems to be a vicious tropical disease. Luckily Eve and Jess are both healthy so they're taking their chance to enjoy the unseasonal heat wave. But then teenagers start to disappear. The spread of the disease worsens and the town is placed under lockdown. A demon is among them. It could be anybody.

A darkly spellbinding story of witches, sisterhood and coming of age, steeped in Welsh mythology and Arthurian legendSeventeen-year-old Ivy has spent years looking for her birth mother, but when she finally finds her on the remote Bardsey Island, rumoured to be the site of Avalon and King Arthur's last resting place, she is not remotely prepared for what greets her. Her mother abandoned her as a baby in order to keep her safe from witches who wanted to steal her away - the eight witches of Arthurian legend, who have long sought the ninth ...An unputdownable new stand-alone novel from the bestselling author of THE TWISTED TREE and THE CROOKED MASK