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Marzana and her best friend are bored. Even though they live in a notorious city where normal rules do not apply, nothing interesting ever happens to them. Nothing, that is, until Marzana's parents are recruited to help solve an odd crime, and she realizes that this could be the excitement she's been waiting for. She assembles a group of kid detectives with special skills - including the ghost of a ship captain's daughter - and together, they explore hidden passageways, navigate architecture that changes overnight, and try to unravel the puzzle of who the kidnappers are.

Tom ist mal wieder baff: Der neueste Vampirroman von Starautorin Tiffany Schuster soll verfilmt werden und er spielt... in einer Geisterbahn! Tatsächlich meldet sich schon bald das Filmteam und dank Rufus T. Feuerfliegs Verhandlungsgeschick winkt ein hübsches Sümmchen, das nicht einmal Vlarad der Vampir ignorieren kann. Als sich jedoch drei prominente Comedians in ihrem Podcast über die bevorstehende Verfilmung im speziellen und Vampire im besonderen lustig machen, verschwindet der Vampir wutentbrannt in die Nacht und Sekunden später sind die drei Podcaster verschwunden!

The rain hasn't stopped for a week, and the 12 guests of the Blue Vein Tavern are trapped by flooded roads and the rising Skidwrack River. Among them are a ship's captain, tattooed twins, a musician, and a young girl traveling on her own. To pass the time, they begin to tell stories - each a different type of folklore - that eventually reveal more about their own secrets than they intended. As the rain continues to pour down - an uncanny, unnatural amount of rain - the guests begin to realize that the entire city is in danger, and not just from the flood.

Sir Michael Morpurgo retells two of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer’s Night Dream, in this stunning audio collection in association with the RSC, featuring readings by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Michael himself. Translating these iconic plays into thrilling prose, the nation’s favourite storyteller preserves all the imaginative genius and spark of the originals, while bringing a contemporary and vibrant voice to their retelling.

Set in the '60s at a summer camp, The Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall is a spooky, atmospheric middle-grade story for fans of classic ghost stories, unlikely friendships and intriguing mysteries. Bee's mom has a job in New York City for the summer, so Bee is being sent to summer camp. She's...

Sebastian Wight is cursed. As a boy with the forbidden ability to traverse the lands of the dead, he must not only harness his newfound powers to fight the monster that stalks him, but also to navigate a creepy world of hunting ghosts and ghouls with his eccentric classmates. And that's only the start of his concerns. There's also the tangled on a boy who barely looks at him twice... and the deadly family history that brought him to the halls of Gallowgate Academy in the first place.

Na strychu pewnej kamienicy mieszka duch Maciek. Jest mały, niepozorny, nie umie straszyć, a więc staje się duchem opiekuńczym. Próbuje pomóc mieszkańcom w pozbyciu się mrówek faraona: dzikich lokatorów, których ilość zwiększa się w zastraszającym tempie każdego dnia i które mimo swojego mikroskopijnego rozmiaru mówią bardzo grubymi, silnymi głosami.

Ein Familienvater verschwindet spurlos auf dem Rummelplatz und als Welf loszieht, um Spuren zu erschnüffeln, ist er ebenfalls nicht mehr aufzufinden! Tom und Hop-Tep folgen den Hinweisen bis zu einer Schießbude und im nächsten Moment finden sich die beiden in einer Gefängniszelle wieder, bewacht vom Sheriff einer Westernstadt namens Deadwood.

Sarah and her parents have moved from London to Cornwall to start a new life in this lovely county by the sea, but there are tales that the old house they have chosen may be haunted. What will Sarah find out about the history of the house and will the dark secrets of the past become real to her?

The Aldens visit Goldwin University, where Grandfather attended college. The old library is about to be torn down. But legend says the stone gargoyles guarding the roof of the old building will do anything to protect it - even fly. When the creatures begin appearing outside the windows, people are terrified. But the Boxcar Children think there is another reason the gargoyles are turning up in places they shouldn't. And they're determined to figure it out.

This collection of tales is for fans of ghost-story writer Mary Downing Hahn’s scary but not too scary books. Even the stories without actual ghosts are spooky. Each tale turns something ordinary - a pigeon, a white dress, a stranger on the bus, a puppet - into a sinister link to the supernatural. For the human characters, secrets from the past or careless behavior in the present can lead to serious trouble. All the stories have a young person as their central character, so all will resonate easily with young listeners who enjoy the eerie, the creepy, and the otherworldly.

Some dolls never die. No one ever leaves Copper Hollow. It’s a town with a deadly history...but nobody ever talks about it. Kimberly thinks there might be something strange going on. She’s not sure what - until the menacing doll appears with two words written across its clothes: "BURY ME"...Kimberly and her friends try to destroy the doll...but every time they think it’s gone, it comes back again. Is there any way to rid themselves of the evil once and for all?

Fans of Adam Gidwitz and Neil Gaiman will love this middle-grade adventure about two boys, a mysterious, old book with some dark secrets, and a horde of angry demons. Nothing could go wrong, right? When Walter Prairie is struck dead by a bolt of lightning, he's fast-tracked through the Afterlife Academy and assigned as a Guardian Agent to protect a High-Level Target. Walter's HLT, Charlie Dewdle, isn't the most popular kid in school. He's a bit paranormally obsessed. And he has just found an old book that could be used to open the Gateway for demons to wreak havoc on earth.

Every year, the town of Happy Hills holds its haunted house contest. In a spooky old manor, teams of kids come up with new ways to frighten people. The scariest team wins. But this year, all the teams are going to lose. Because this year the house itself has awakened...and it won’t be happy until it’s devoured all the people inside. What started out as a game has turned into something much more deadly. Is there any way out?

Ein Podcaster Team für "Cold Cases" hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die unerklärlichen Vorkommnisse rund um die Geisterbahn aufzuklären. Das Interview mit Tom verläuft schon schlimm genug, doch dann stoßen die beiden beim heimlichen Herumschnüffeln auf einen ganz besonderen Stoffhasen.

The Thirteen Doors of Black House is a fast-paced scary mystery that is destined to become a classic haunted house book for kids. —Fleur Bradley, award-winning author of Daybreak on Raven Island and Midnight at the Barclay Hotel. Maya Murtagh can’t wait to spend a week at Black House, a...

From K.R. Alexander, a bestselling master of such middle-grade frights as The Collector and The Fear Zone, comes the story of a girl whose live is inextricably linked to that of her dead twin...who refuses to go away, and wants to take control.

Tom ist verwundert: Warum lädt man ihn zu einem Dinner auf eine Burg ein? Wieso soll er unbedingt eine Begleitung "aus dem Team der "Schreckensfahrt" mitbringen? Und warum schnüffelte der Großvater des Gastgebers schon vor etwa hundert Jahren in der Geisterbahn herum? Wenn Tom herausfinden will, was dahintersteckt, muss er die Einladung wohl oder übel annehmen. Mit den anderen illustren Gästen hätten er und seine Begleitung Dada allerdings nicht im Traum gerechnet.

Fredegonda, Goneril, and Drusilla are Great Hagges, much more important and much rarer than regular old hags. They think that ghosts these days are decidedly lacking—people haven't been scared of ghosts for years. So one day they decide that something needs to change—it's time for these ghosts to learn a thing or two about being scary. And what better way to teach them than to set up their very own school for ghosts?

According to local legend, a ghost train passes through Albany at midnight every April 26th, the anniversary of the day President Lincoln's funeral train stopped in the town in 1865.