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When Jake receives a mysterious text, he assumes his friend Roddy is just playing tricks. But the increasingly desperate messages are from an unknown girl called Alice.  And they seem to come from his own phone.

Davy, who appears to have Second Sight, is persuaded against his will to accompany his sister and his cousins, Tom and Elinor, on a Ghost Tour.

Creakie Hall is falling down but there is no money in the bank so Aunt Gardenia Bogey-Mandeville needs to come up with a money-making scheme pretty quickly...

When Miku moved to England from Japan, she never imagined that evil spirits would follow her. But one day an unusual looking supply teacher appears at school, and Miku suspects she may be a demon in disguise.

Scarlett is dead. Which sucks. She's stupidly gone and accidentally killed herself while trying to get out of a school trip.

Ever woken up to an eerie howl in the night and wondered what it was? This creepy tale about the Considine family might just have the answer

John returns from the First World War with a fever and haunted by nightmares of battle and the exploits of his commanding officer.

A teenage tearaway from tough downtown Dublin is unwillingly relocated into a rural County Clare which still believes in the Little Folk.

Death and danger are balanced against friendship and love in this intoxicating blend of adventure, fairy tale and fantasy

Friendship, trust and betrayal combine to form a dangerous liaison in this moving and frightening new book from Chris Priestley

This spooky thriller is a short and simple read ideal for reluctant and struggling readers.

Nin must do what she can to save The Drift from destruction by uncovering the spell which hides the last of the Seven Sorcerers, Simeon Dark. But time and luck may be running out...

The Golem’s Eye is the second of the Bartimaeus trilogy, and is set in an alternate Europe in which magicians and their otherworldly servants, the reluctant djinni, hold power.

Skulduggery Pleasant, the skeleton detective, and his sidekick, fourteen-year-old Valkyrie Cain, known to her Irish friends as Steph, are unofficially on the case.

Full of drama, red herrings and lots of unexpected twists and turns

Orphaned twins Josie and Alfie, separated as babies, rediscover each other and set out on a quest for the truth of their past in this Victorian horror story.

Nova is bored and discontented. When she meets the good-looking Liam, she can't believe her luck, but then she discovers that he is not quite like other boys.

City girl Rebecca, spending the summer in a remote East Anglian seaside village, encounters Ferelith, a Goth who lives in a commune.

Bod sometimes goes beyond the graveyard into the world of the living – and here his life is under threat from the man Jack, who has sought him since he was a baby.

It's a mistake anyone could make - digging up the body from the wrong grave. How could you possibly know the corpse would follow you home? And how can you explain it to your Mum?

Penny finds herself mixed up in the exciting new world of motion pictures in this entertaining sequel to Twelve Minutes to Midnight.

Jimmy is Christmas shopping with his parents, when a mysterious stranger offers to take their photograph. In a flash, his Mum and Dad have disappeared and all that is left is a photo of them screaming.

Luke Watson was an ordinary boy until he was transformed into a werewolf on his tenth birthday and sent to live on Scream Street, a community of ghosts, monsters and zombies.

Grubbs Grady thinks he's having a bad day when he's caught smoking and sent home from school. Very soon however, he learns that this is the least of his worries.

Frankie Ruggles has just moved to a new school. Not only does he have to cope with explaining his dyslexia, but he's also visited by the ghost of a Victorian boy.

Kyle's imaginary friend from childhood is back! With a vengeance.

Skeletons, vampires, black magic, ancient gods, secret powers and a gruesome monster... Skulduggery Pleasant is back. 

When Pamela Fraidy gets locked in the attic with a big, leggy spider by a mean still-alive, her ghostie friends have to call on all their ingenuity to set her free.

A nail-biting story of hauntings and terror by the master of the genre, Chris Priestley

When Jamie's father buys a house that has been empty for many years, they discover ghosts, mystery - and danger.

At his new boarding school in Salisbury, Jon finds himself contronted by a terrifying and vengeful gang of ghosts that no one else can see.

The third book in Jane Smiley's series about Abby and her family moves their fractured relationships onwards, as well as introducing a new horse, and a supernatural element. 

Edgy Taylor has a gift - he can see demons in the crowded streets of Victorian London. A gripping, gothic, horror story lightened by its dark humour and unpredictable characters.

Set in the seventeenth century amid the bleakness of winter in Eastern Europe, and inspired by vampire folklore, this is a superbly crafted, dark and menacing tale.

Sinister occultist Austerly Fellowes died in 1936. Didn't he? A truly disturbing supernatural thriller which may well keep readers awake at night.

Death, family fall-outs, spiritualism, ghosts, sibling relationships, young love and murder all feature in this engaging page-turner.

The first 13 years of Kitty Slade’s life are a ghost-free zone -  until one day, during a biology class, Kitty discovers she can see dead people.

This remarkable new version blends the finest contemporary illustration, dramatic storytelling and superb paper engineering.

A short novel, ideal for reluctant boy readers, which begins with a chilling ride in a ghostly, pre-programmed car.

A humorous first 'chapters' book for newly independent readers or suitable for reading aloud to younger children. Pen and ink illustrations add interest and humour.

A chilling, compulsive horror story pleasantly free from vampires and werewolves

When Becky moves to the sleepy village of Oakbridge, she can’t imagine how she will fill the long empty days of the summer holidays. Then she discovers the beautiful Butterfly Garden,  and befriends the mysterious Rosa May.

Twins Kim and Seth and their friend Wes visit the plague village of Eyam on a school trip and steal some cursed coins from an old well.

When the sickness came, the adults became ill. The lucky ones died but many mutated into brainless, deformed monsters with a seemingly insatiable appetite - for children.

These spine-tingling stories-within-a-story are the stuff of childhood nightmares, with a good smattering of ghosts, demons, blood and gore.

Mould has adapted five classic short ghost stories and added five of his own invention in a similar vein.

Entertaining and unsettling in equal measure!

Birth of a Killer is the first book in a new series that form a prequel to the best-selling sequence The Saga of Darren Shan.

The isolated All Hallows church holds great terrors for Cora and Mimi and their new friends. Here the ghosts of children slain by Long Lankin appear. And now he's coming for Mimi...