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From the author of the Branford Boase long-listed debut The Whisperling, comes the next twist in the legacy.Gloucestershire, 1918.We whisperlings are the living voice for the dead. It's always been so. But not everyone likes it...Whisperling sisters Violet and Clemency run regular 'Messaging' sessions at their mam's canal-side pub. People come from far and wide to hear from their fathers, brothers, sons, all now ghosts of the men who died in the 'great' war. The sisters are happy to do their bit, and the service they provide is welcomed by all.That is until whisperlings begin to go missing. Girls, with the special ability to speak with the dead, are disappearing, without a trace. And perhaps what had become a prized gift is once again becoming a reason for whisperling persecution.The girls are afraid but have each other...until Clemency becomes one of the missing. The only option Violet has is to follow her sister's trail, enter a murky underworld beneath the cobbled streets of Gloucester to find her, and perhaps more than they've ever bargained for.Praise for The Whisperling:'One of the best debuts I've read in YEARS!' - Emma Carroll'A thrilling Gothic page-turner' - Jacqueline Wilson'A captivating and spine-tingling read...paints a vivid picture of the Victorian era' - BookTrust'Sends multiple shivers down the spine and delivers thrilling twists along the way' - LoveReading4Kids

Viggo is fifteen years old, living in Edinburgh with his mum. He has no plans for the future other than to watch the new Thor movie at his local multiplex. But one morning, he wakes to the news that his older brother, Magnus, has gone missing on Shetland. Mum has already booked tickets to go and search for him.There's good reason to be worried. Five years ago, Viggo's dad, Jonathan, went 'off grid' in the same location and disappeared. He is now 'missing presumed dead.' Viggo has no option but to go to Shetland with Mum - but from the moment they set off, he's troubled by strange visions: images of armed warriors, mythical creatures and Viking longships. And then they encounter Leon, a mysterious wandering musician who attaches himself to them and proves impossible to shake off. Once on Shetland, the search for Magnus begins in earnest and Viggo's troubling visions start to intensify. Soon he is finding it difficult to separate fact from fantasy... and who knows what terrors lie in wait for him deep beneath the ground?

Un ensemble de nouvelles sombres, à commencer par A Night, A Murder, enquête policière, puis An Other World, Moonshine et enfin Party.Un soir, les parents de Mike ont été assassinés. La police affirme que ce meurtre est l'oeuvre d'un grand meurtrier recherché, mais Mike décide d'enquêter lui-même. Entre ses voisins boulangers, un délinquant du quartier et l'étrange voisin casanier,Qui est le vrai coupable ?Attention: ce livre aborde des sujets tels que la drogue, harcèlement, maladies mentales, violence, détails gores.

Felx 'Mala has only one goal in life: to perfect the art of farming. That, coupled with being the only vampire not to develop an enhancement, leaves them unprepared for what is coming.The clans of Vampirium have become divided among the forward thinkers and the traditionalists. The raging war forces vampires to choose a side. Clans themselves become divided along the way, and Felx's hope of a peaceful life dwindles with each passing attack.Their sibling and newfound friend inform Felx of a portal to Earth. A chance at a new beginning. Should they risk starting over in a strange new world or find a place to hide on Vampirium until the war is over? If everyone they love leaves the planet, can they survive on their own?The rumors of the portal come with stories of danger. Nothing is ever easy, especially for a vampire that has never hunted.

"When Vera receives a scholarship to an elite tech school, she thinks the hardest part will be making friends. Turns out there are darker things at Morton Tech. Evil things worse than bullies. Like demons. After a face-stealing demon only Vera can see appears, she realizes she's the only one who can stop it. She's going to have to use all her wits, and the confidence she's gained from living with a facial difference and Osteogenesis Imperfecta ("Brittle Bone Disease"), to save her friends. Will she find the strength to face her own fears and learn what it means to be a hero? Or will the demon escape the school and wreak havoc on the world?"--

Neeve didn't know what he was getting into when he replied to that Craigslist ad for a job at a ranch out in Arizona. He certainly wasn't expecting to find a team of scientists researching the cryptology behind one of the most haunted ranches in America. He also didn't expect to find Samuel, dark and brooding, nor did he expect Samuel was anyone he could maybe get along with.

Charlie and his new love, Sam, have just saved the dead from theliving! Now it's time to focus on being a normal couple - if sucha thing exists? But when a new threat lurks in the shadows, thistime to the living, and all who Charlie and Sam hold near, theymust put everything on the line - including their lives - to workout who is behind it.

True-Crime obsessed Paige, and her family, move across the Atlanticto her father's eerie hometown, and it's not long before she uncoversthe town's dark history - a string of unsolved murders anddisappearances in the 90s. Will Paige solve a quarter-of-a-centurymystery, or will she be the next target?!

An unforgettable YA debut by Jamison Shea. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in a thrilling horror novel about the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back.Laure Mesny is determined to make it in the cut-throat world of ballet, and she will do anything to prove that this Black girl can take centre stage. Anything . . . Even if it means entering into a bargain with a primordial power in the Catacombs beneath Paris.Laure is promised influence and adoration - and she gets it. But that alone is not enough, not for the cruel and privileged people who surround her. Her climb to stardom leaves broken bodies in her wake, some of which aren't her doing. As she finds herself deep within this monstrous world, she is faced with the ultimate choice: will she retreat or succumb to the darkness forever?THERE WILL BE BLOOD.

Seventeen-year-old Sid lives in a tourist town where magic lies buried beneath the earth, but other than that, has a completely ordinary existence--until one day her brother goes missing and the ground opens up, unleashing the magic and zombies within.

THE TAKING OF JAKE LIVINGSTON meets ACE OF SPADES in this gripping new psychological thriller from Liselle Sambury, author of DELICIOUS MONSTERS! When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, with her own brother as the main suspect, Sunny takes it upon herself to discover the real killer—and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.

This fast-paced YA horror novel perfect for fans of Stranger Things throws together two former friends when their long-missing best friend suddenly reappears-five years after his disappearance, but the same age as the day he vanished.

Squid Game meets Wilder Girls in this debut sapphic supernatural thriller set in the glittering, cut-throat world of K-pop rivalry. A disgraced idol comes face-to-face with the demons of her past when she enters a competition that turns out to be a deadly trap.After a shocking scandal that abruptly ended her teen popstar career, eighteen-year-old Sunny Lee spends her days longing for her former life and cyberstalking her ex-BFF and groupmate, Candie. The two were once inseparable, but that was then - before the tragedy and heartache they left in their wake.In the here and now, Sunny is surprised to discover that Candie is attending a new K-pop workshop in her hometown. Candie might be there chasing stardom, but Sunny can't resist the chance to join her and finally confront their traumatic history. Because she still can't figure out what happened that horrible night when Mina, the third in their tight-knit trio, jumped to her death. Or if the dark and otherworldly secrets she and Candie were keeping had something to do with it . . .But the workshop doesn't bring the answers Sunny had hoped for, nor a happy reunion with Candie. Instead, Sunny finds herself haunted by ghostly visions while strange injuries start happening to her competitors - followed by even stranger mutilations to their bodies. In her race to survive, Sunny will have to expose just who is behind the carnage - and if Candie is out for blood once more - in Linda Cheng's spellbinding sapphic thriller that will have readers screaming and swooning for more.

When a malevolent figure from Khmer folklore awakens, Sothea and Gabe must navigate friendship, family and the monster within to overcome a terrifying supernatural force and protect the society that shunned them. Gabe, a seventeen-year-old labourer, becomes besotted by the enigmatic Sothea after her family moves into the dilapidated manor house he's working on. Both are misfits and find it difficult to communicate with others, but in those brief moments they have together - be it a stolen glance, a whispered exchange, or a secret rendezvous - they begin to discover and explore their true selves and feelings.But this idyllic blossoming romance is shattered when a malevolent figure from Khmer folklore - an arb - roams the night to feed on the unsuspecting. The Arb is a dark coming-of-age tale that follows two neurodiverse teens who struggle to be accepted by a society that has little time, or empathy, for anyone who's different. A contemporary gothic paranormal layered in Arthurian legend with an Asian horror twist.

HUN FORTELLER SANNHETEN ... MEN INGEN TROR HENNE!Lucy elsker å fortelle monsterhistorier. Hun har fortalt så mange at familien og vennene hennes er gørr lei av å høre dem. For å få henne på bedre tanker, må hun delta i sommerens lesehestopplegg på biblioteket. Men det er noe som ikke stemmer med bibliotekaren Mortman. Synd at Lucy har fortalt så mange monsterhistorier . . . Synd at ingen tror et ord av det hun sier ... Synd at monsteret vet hvem hun er, og er på sporet av henne ... IKKE EGNET FOR VOKSNE!

Å gjøre seg usynlig kan være veldig farlig ...På bursdagen til Max finner han et slags tryllespeil på loftet. Når han ser i det, oppdager han at han blir usynlig. Max og vennene hans synes det er spennende å leke med dette merkelige speilet -- helt til Max skjønner at de begynner å mistekontrollen. De blir værende usynlige litt for lenge ... Det blir stadig vanskeligere å komme tilbake ... Å gjøre seg usynlig er blitt en farlig lek -- livsfarlig. Neste gang Max leker med speilet, blir han kanskje usynlig ... for alltid! IKKE EGNET FOR VOKSNE!

Er det bare en dukke, eller ...Linda har en buktalerdukke som heter Herr Ørefik. Ørefik er ikke akkurat pen å se på, men han er utrolig morsom. Og Linda morer seg med å lære ham å snakke og bevege seg.Men Kris er sjalu på søsteren som hun synes får altfor mye oppmerksomhet. Det er ikke rettferdig, synes Kris, at Linda alltid skal være den heldige! Kris bestemmer seg for å få seg sin egen dukke. Så skal Linda få se! Men så begynner merkelige ting å skje. Ekle ting. Mystiske ting. Det er ikke mulig at en alminnelig dukke kan stå bak alt som nå skjer. Eller er det mulig? IKKE EGNET FOR VOKSNE!

Der de døde hersker ...Plutselig var Gabe helt alene i den mørke labyrinten i pyramiden. I det ene øyeblikket var hans kusine Sari rett foran ham. I det neste var hun forsvunnet -- sporløst forsvunnet. Men Gabe er visst ikke alene likevel. Det er noen andre i pyramiden. Eller ... noe annet. Gabe er ikke overtroisk, og han nekter å tro at historien om mumiens forbannelse er sann. Likevel -- han hører noen merkelige lyder der han forsiktig tar seg frem i den ukjente gangen. Og plutselig ser han noe som får håret til å reise seg på hodet hans. Det er ikke tvil -- mumiens forbannelse virker likevel. Han begynner å skjelve ... IKKE EGNET FOR VOKSNE!

Par une agréable après-midi, un homme lutte pour démarrer sa voiture au milieu de nulle part. Murmurant des jurons et regardant constamment autour de lui, il semble fuir quelque chose. Soudain, il essaie de passer un appel mais le signal échoue dans la région entourée de montagnes. Qu'est-ce qui le poursuit ? Cette question est le début d'une histoire pleine de mystère, de terreur et de suspense.

Mia Myhr har dratt til den uhyggelige verdenen Ravnareir der hun, sammen med sin følgesvenn Ekko, fortsetter letingen etter søsteren Hanna som forsvant i tjernet med de andre barna. Denne nye og mystiske underverdenen byr på flere utfordringer enn Mia forventet. Skumle skapninger, et folk som dreper for magi og en mørk skikkelse som leter etter noe som kalles kaoskrystallen. Hva vil skje hvis de oppdager at Mia er et menneske, og hvorfor har hennes egen krystall begynt å snakke med henne? Sara Hjardar er 25 år gammel og kommer fra Fredrikstad. Hun ble ferdig med en bachelor i grafisk design og illustrasjon våren 2021 på Kunsthøyskolen i Oslo. Samme høst vant hun Egmonts store tegneseriekonkurranse, i skarp konkurranse med over 200 andre innsendere. Premien var 50 000 kroner og en bokkontrakt - som har resultert i denne bok-serien. Mia Myhr og barna som forsvant fikk terningkast 6 i VG som skrev: «Fabelaktig god tegneseriedebut som gir assosiasjoner til Stranger Things og Coraline.» Elin Brend Bjørhei

In the wake of a worldwide outbreak, a young girl and her brother discover that their mom has made a rather creepy transformation. As the streets fill with zombies, the family must learn how to live... with their undead mom.

The sky city on the earth will fall with a loud noise, and it will appear like a blue star... Are you interested in their predictions about the future? Do you want to know the trend of the world?

"In this hilarious illustrated fable, Anna Van Ogre loses her lovely monstrous looks and is turned into a sickeningly adorable, rosy-cheeked little girl. It starts her on a journey to learn an unforgettable lesson about true beauty"--

Twelve-year-old Molly and her poltergeist twin brother Marty must solve a mystery to protect their family.

After sixteen-year-old Harriet Flynn trips over an ancient gravestone etched with strange markings in a seventeenth-century holiday village and reads the inscription, she and her friends are alarmed to wake up with supernatural powers.