Fear Files: Hide and Seek

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Adam is in a bad mood. A really bad mood.

He was expecting solar-powered showers and cosy hammocks on a weekend of luxury glamping with his mate Sol. What he got was a leaky inflatable mattress in the corner of a muddy field.

After almost no sleep, thanks to Sol’s supercharged snoring, he stomps off into the mist and stumbles across a seemingly abandoned village. The only inhabitant is an odd statue of a man hiding his eyes.

Perhaps inspired by this, Adam suggests a game of hide and seek but before long the game turns to a nightmare as someone, or something, starts to pursue him. As his environment constantly changes, and pathways and people appear and disappear without warning, Adam realises he is in deep, deep trouble.

With witness accounts being supplemented by interviewer notes and illustrations, this first instalment in a middle-grade horror series is based on the Darkive: a secret database filled with recovered testimony from survivors of terrifying and/or inexplicable phenomena. 

At just 160 pages, this claustrophobic creep-fest is highly accessible and all scares are age-appropriate - although the feeling of being watched and chased may last longer than the reading experience!

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