Favourite horror books

Haunted houses, wolves, other dimensions, dark secrets and terrifying mysteries - here are ten scary books to sink your teeth into.

The Stuff of Nightmares

by Malorie Blackman

Doubleday Children's Books

Kyle is the only one conscious after an horrific train crash, but how long can he survive when death is stalking the carriages looking for him?

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Leaving Poppy

by Kate Cann

Scholastic

A modern-day gothic horror story, which mixes the creepy with teenage experiences of love and identity.

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Haunted

by Susan Cooper

Anderson Press

A scintillating selection of supremely scary tales from 11 well-known children’s authors

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Coraline

by Neil Gaiman

Bloomsbury Children's Books

One day Coraline unlocks a mysterious door that opens onto another world, a twisted parody of Coraline's own dimension.

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The Enemy

by Charlie Higson

Puffin

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.

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The Demon Trappers: Forbidden

by Jana Oliver

Macmillan Children's Books

A future where demons and the undead walk the streets

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The Dead of Winter

by Chris Priestley

Bloomsbury

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

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The Prince of Mist

by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Orion Children's Books

This is a chilling and haunting story of magic and mystery

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Midwinterblood

by Marcus Sedgwick

Indigo

In seven stories that take place on the strange island of Blessed, two souls seek each other over a period of a thousand years.

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Birth of a Killer

by Darren Shan

HarperCollins Children's Books

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.

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Six Days

by Philip Webb

Chicken House

In grim, post-apocalyptic London, the search is on for the ‘artefact’, an undefined and mysterious relic from the distant past which holds the key to the future of the earth and mankind. Cass and Wilbur work as ‘scavs’ for the...

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