horror

Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing--and terrifying--playground of amusements he calls "Christmasland." Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble--and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx's unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He's on the road again and he's picked up a new passenger: Vic's own son.

Traditional scary stories from various countries.

It's 1974 when 12-year-old Gwendy Peterson is offered a magic box by a man named Richard Farris, whom she meets at the top of one of the cliffside Suicide Stairs in Castle Rock, Maine. Farris wears a "small neat black hat" and seems to know just who Gwendy is and what she wants. Eight buttons grace the mahogany box he offers to Gwendy, and a lever dispenses silver dollars and intricate chocolates that Farris claims will help Gwendy lose weight and escape being called "Goodyear" by her classmates. Lose weight she does, but that's not all. Wonderful things keep happening in Gwendy's life, and she's happier than she's ever been. But when she decides to press one of the buttons, the consequences are horrendous.

A graphic novel adaptation of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" in which the people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot.

Compilation of eleven horror classics, including short stories, novel excerpts, and poems, with introductions to each work, and a glossary.

Collects short stories chronicling Simon's journey from amnesia to Ascension, as he works to regain his lost life while attending the Shadowhunter Academy.

Gathers urban legends and stories about ghosts, murderers, corpses, curses, cannibalism, and monsters.

Amateur ghost-hunter Trey Newton can t find a single spook, but it s not because his homemade ecto-meter doesn t work. Someone has kidnapped all the ghosts in town, including his Grandma! Suddenly, Trey s goofy plan to get on TV and meet his hero famous ghost-hunter Rex Rangler turns into a race to save his beloved Grandma s spirit. Written by debut middle-grade author John Bladek, Lost in Ghostville funny, fast-paced novel filled with humor, adventure and, of course, spirit!. Includes a glossary and discussion questions.

Bestselling writer Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology. Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. He was so impressed with the entries that he recommended they were published together in one book. Reader beware: the stories will make you think twice before cuddling up to your old soft toy, dipping your toe into the water or counting the spots on a leopard.

In rural Maine, new residents discover a hidden Indian cemetery where buried pets return zombie-like from the dead. When the family's young son dies, the grief-stricken father decides to use the cemetery's magical properties to get his son back.