Böcker av Paul McAvoy

A tear... a rip into another world... a Shadow Earth... Tom would have done anything not to have gone to stay at his aunt's place in Lancashire that Summer with his younger sister. He would rather be back home with his friends, partying like all normal seventeen years olds. And his wish is granted, but not in the way he expected at all... His sister talks him into helping an old lady who claims there is a monster in her house; there, he is confronted by a daemon and, trying to fend it off, slips through a door of light. He finds himself in some kind of apocalyptic world where everything is in ruins. And the daemon has followed him. The strange door of light has closed and he cannot get back, but luckily a fearsome teenage girl with a leather jacket and baseball hat and hunting knife helps him fight off the creature. She tells him her world is riddled with such monsters and mankind has to live in strongholds to stay safe. She is going back to hers tomorrow, maybe someone there may be able to help him get back to his world... But the daemons are closing in on what is left of mankind, ready to extinguish them from the world forever, and Tom has found himself at the very centre of this war...

Dimension jumping, a bogeyman, a deadly virus and zombies...Unable to get over the death of his wife, Jill, and their unborn child in a tragic accident, Darren takes to drinking heavily and generally letting himself go. After a night out with a friend, he goes to the graveyard and to his wife's grave with a few cans, and a few pills. He wakes the next morning still in the graveyard, but the grave has gone, in fact the whole world seems to have gone to hell. While leaving the cemetery, he sees what looks like cannibals eating other humans. On the main road there has been a car pile up and more of these cannibal creatures are about: one attacks him. He gets help from a woman and teenage boy and they go to his house. He finds this has changed as well: the spare room contains and cot and evidence of a child. Is he going crazy or could it be that he has entered another dimension somehow? A dimension in which his wife and child lived?Fighting off zombies and a bogeyman and travelling through dimensions, Darren must seek out the answers at the mysterious research facility, Langfield...

When my parents split up I started drawing pictures of gravestones in a church near my dad's (I know it is weird, get over it), and here is where I met Beth. But I soon found that Beth was no ordinary girl, but she was in fact a ghost. I am not talking creepy ghost, the kind that puts a curse on you, but just an ordinary person really. I soon learned she was being chased by some nasty piece of work, and I soon realised there was only me who would be able to help her.Not only was I going to try to save her from her hunter, but also try to help her move on, go into the light, and all that. Not much to ask, seeing as I was a teenager, was it! In the process I would learn that the 'unknown' was pretty clear, and that some men can be more evil than anything conjured up by the wildest of imaginations.So... I met a Ghost is a sometimes creepy, sometimes funny short novel for young adults by author Paul McAvoy. A page-turner... you will not want to draw breath until the last page is read...

Lost and alone!Caught in thick mist on a mountain in Scotland, thirteen-year-old Ollie slips and falls hundreds of feet to the glen below, and awakens with a badly damaged leg. Unable to walk very well, he tries to make his way to an old building (bothy) in the distance. Exhausted, he rests, but is woken by a teenage girl, who helps him to the bothy. Here she starts to prepare herself, and him for her impending change from girl to wolf. Wishing that the mountain rescue would come quick, she tells him her tale of how she became a werewolf. It is a story of sadness and horror, but Ollie must decide how to escape this girl, for surely, she must be deluded. Or is she what she says she is... a werewolf...?