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1) Coraline
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English
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When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own - except that it's different. It's a marvellous adventure until Coraline discovers that there's also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them for ever.
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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'Features a clever and deadly heroine who is just as much a beauty as a beast. Fans of Alessandra are sure to fall just as hard for Chrysantha' Kathryn Purdie, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bone Crier's Moon and The Forest Grimm - - Praise for The Shadows Between Us - - 'A viciously satisfying romance featuring two well-matched opponents' Booklist 'Dark, mesmerizing, and completely addictive. With a gripping mystery and layered characters,...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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A boy is put on a train by his stepmother to make his first journey on his own. But soon that journey turns out to be more of a challenge than anyone could have imagined as the train stalls at the mouth of a tunnel and a mysterious woman in white helps the boy while away the hours by telling him stories - stories with a difference.
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English
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Welcome to a strange and twisted world where the spooky, the shocking, and the positively petrifying are lurking just out of sight. A bus ride home turns into your worst nightmare. A quaint country cottage has a grisly secret. A man returns from holiday with bubbling skin and bloodshot eyes. Horowitz Horror. It's all around you. Alive. Waiting. Enter if you dare.
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Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Tales from the Haunted Mansion: Volume III: Grim Grinning Ghosts The eerie Amicus Arcane has returned from beyond the grave to share more spooky stories from inside the Haunted Mansion. What frightening fictions does this once-living librarian hold in store? And will you, foolish reader, be brave enough to listen to them all without going mad ... or dying from fright? Join Phineas, Ezra, and Gus-otherwise known as the Hitchhiking Ghosts-as they venture...
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The Wardstone Chronicles volume 1
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English
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Warning: Not to be Read After Dark! The first book in the terrifying Wardstone Chronicles. The Spook's Apprentice is the first book in Joseph Delaney's terrifying Wardstone Chronicles - over 3 million copies sold worldwide! 'Someone has to stand against the dark. And you're the only one who can.' For years, the local Spook has been keeping the County safe from evil. Now his time is coming to an end, but who will take over? Many apprentices have tried....
Author
Publisher
Eva Pohler
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Did her parents send her to the Purgatorium to help her or punish her? A teen who feels guilty for her sister's death is sent by her parents to what she thinks is a vacation retreat but is soon at the mercy of a doctor's experimental treatment. After undergoing one bizarre experience after another, the teen gets lost on the haunted side of the island and wonders if her parents meant to help or to punish her. Some readers have compared this young adult...
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Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister?s murder trial. � And in the year since Claire?s death, Alice?s life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she?s moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is being forced to face her sister?s killer and a courtroom full of people who doubt what she saw in the corn maze a year prior. � Claire was an all-American girl, beautiful and bubbly, and a theater star....
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Series
Mortal Instruments volume 1
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English
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Clary Fray is seeing things: vampires in Brooklyn and werewolves in Manhattan. Irresistibly drawn towards a group of sexy demon hunters, Clary encounters the dark side of New York City - and the dangers of forbidden love.
10) Beware!
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
R.L. Stine has gathered a selection of all things scary, and even added two new tales of his own! Short stories, fables old and new, comics, and poems. It?s a spine-tingling collection of work by dozens of writers and artists who are famous for hair-raising fun. Discover a ghastly secret in a retelling of the classic story "The Judge?s House," by Bram Stoker. Peek into a Christmas stocking that holds a shocking surprise in a Vault of Horror comic,...
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English
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Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house and his regular visits from his nephew give him the opportunity to relive some of the most frightening stories he knows. But as the stories unfold, a newer and more surprising narrative emerges, one that is perhaps the most frightening of all. Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror, it transpires, are not so much works of imagination as dreadful lurking memories. Memories of an earlier time in which Uncle Montague...
12) Crater lake
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Series
Crater Lake volume 1
Publisher
Firefly Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
What follows is a fight for survival that sees five pupils band together to save their classmates from an alien fate far worse than death. But whatever happens, they must Never, Ever fall asleep!.
Author
Publisher
The O'Brien Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Raven O'Sullivan doesn't remember what happened in Hyacinth House five years ago. When her father died during a paranormal investigation there, everyone said it was an accident, but she's pretty certain it's her fault. Her brother, Archer, wasn't there that night. When asked to investigate the supposed ghost of Hyacinth House, he can't resist saying yes. Even if his sister wants nothing to do with it. �abha McLoughlin has grown up seeing and hearing...
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Series
The mortal instruments volume 5
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world after a betrayal by one of their own leaves them reeling.
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Spooked volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Children's UK
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Cod?s Bottom - the sleepy seaside town with a secret! Meet an unusual cast of ghosts in a laugh-out-loud new middle-grade series by the bestselling author of The Nothing to See Here Hotel.�Perfect for fans of The Danger Gang and The Boy Who Grew Dragons. � There?s nothing out of the ordinary about ten-year-old Ella Griffin. Nothing at all . . . until she?s forced to move to the seaside town of Cod?s Bottom and everything changes. In...
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Kate Grable volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Kate Grable is horrified to find out that the football coach has given the team steroids. Worse yet, the steroids are having an unexpected effect, turning hot gridiron hunks into mindless flesh-eating zombies. No one is safe--not her cute crush Aaron, not her dorky brother, Jonah . . . not even Kate! She's got to find an antidote--before her entire high school ends up eating each other. So Kate, her best girlfriend, Rocky, and Aaron stage a frantic...
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Orphans of the Tide volume 1
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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That grey morning, once the tide had retreated, a whale was found on a rooftop. When a mysterious boy washes in with the tide, the citizens believe he's the Enemy - the god who drowned the world - come again to cause untold chaos. Only Ellie, a fearless young inventor living in a workshop crammed with curiosities, believes he's innocent. But the Enemy can take possession of any human body and the ruthless Inquisition are determined to destroy it forever....
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Violet Veil Mysteries volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A breakout new detective series, from the author of the spine-tingling SCARLET AND IVY series, beautifully illustrated by Hannah Peck.Violet Veil wants nothing more than to prove her worth and become her father?s apprentice at Veil & Sons Undertakers. And one rain-soaked night she gets her chance when she meets a boy, Oliver, who is wandering around the graveyard. Only, the last time Violet saw Oliver, he was indoors and very much dead, waiting to...
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Monster Doctor volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A dragon with a cough? A yeti with a sore foot? They're no match for the Monster Doctor in this hilarious series from John Kelly.
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Publisher
Magpie
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Your first love will always haunt you... The most haunting, heartwarming debut of 2023. Perfect for fans of strong female leads and supernatural stakes in Buffy, with all the sweetness and romance of To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Cara's just trying to stay on top of all her classes, excel at her extracurriculars, and prepare for college - which means not speaking to the dead, an ability she inherited from her grandmother. Ghosts are trouble,...
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