The second sensational middle-grade standalone that follows an epic voyage from England to France in the aftermath of WW1, from the bestselling author of The Children of Castle Rock. ...

Lotti’s horrible aunt & uncle want to send her away to boarding-school (when she has just so successfully managed to get expelled from her last one!) & Clara, their young teacher, is waiting for news of her missing fiance. Just as they think they’ve found their feet in the new order, disaster strikes, & Lotti & Ben must get away. ...

Lotti’s horrible aunt & uncle want to send her away to boarding-school (when she has just so successfully managed to get expelled from her last one!) & Clara, their young teacher, is waiting for news of her missing fiance. Just as they think they’ve found their feet in the new order, disaster strikes, & Lotti & Ben must get away. ...

When fifteen-year-old Rose visits Belgium, she can feel the deep scars left there by the Great War. But when she hears the sound of marching late at night, she does not expect to see the ghosts of the past from her window. & one boy in particular. ...

To kill with one touch. To harvest dead souls from the battlefields. Kate made Pegasus real. Now: a Norse goddess of death. ...

Strong hands grasped Jack’s shoulders painfully from behind, & he looked up into the eyes of a vampire. He felt the claws prick through his skin, & small flowers of blood welled up through the white cloth. The vampire growled, & Jack felt the fangs sink into his throat… Jack wants to believe it was only a dream. The vampires are gone! Banished for a thousand years by an ancient ritual that sent their leader to the depths of Hell. But that voice still echoes in his mind: the voice of the vampire god, promising to return. Jack’s friends Ben & Emily say it’s just his imagination, but Jack isn’t so sure. Maybe Victorian London is safe… but now a strange sickness is raging in Paris. A familiar sickness which leaves its victims drained of blood. It seems that the vampires have moved on, & the fight must follow them… halloween-1016 ...

Ben, Jack & Emily are in a deadly race against time. They must find the final part of the golden amulet before Camazotz, the vampire god, gets his evil claws on it. With the completed amulet, Camazotz will rule the world &8211; & the entire human race will be reduced to mere prey. As the young vampire-hunters hack through the steaming Mexican jungle, searching for the ancient Mayan temple where the amulet is hidden, danger looms on every side. Against such hopeless odds, how can they succeed &8211; & stop the world from being plunged into everlasting darkness? ...

Emily’s eyes were pools of terror. “ Jump!” Ben cried. & Emily jumped. The ground where she had been crouching was suddenly torn apart. Fragments of earth flew upwards & a corpse heaved itself out of the open grave. Ben, Emily & Jack are looking forward to a quiet Christmas back in London, celebrating their victory over the vampire hordes. But it is not to be. Camazotz may have been vanquished, but a new plague of terror is gripping London’s streets. The undead are rising, & they’re hungry! This new evil is even more dreadful than the last, & its vile creatures seem impossible to kill. How can the friends hope to end the terror that is ripping through their city? halloween-1016 ...

Emily caught a flashing glimpse of movement as two men broke free from the shadows & began to run… For a moment Emily thought they were bandits. But then she saw their deathly white faces & claw-like hands. “ Lampirs!” she cried. Christmas comes to a devastating end for Jack, Ben & Emily when they discover that Ben is infected by the lampir plague. But when they race to Poland to find a doctor who is rumoured to have developed an antidote, they find it in the grip of a lampir epidemic of monstrous proportions. From the city of Warsaw to the snowy forests & villages, the country is swarming with the undead… & this time there seems to be no cure. halloween-1016 ...

A hundred snarling lampirs had gathered across the pathway. Grey river-mist curled around their feet. Somewhere a wolf howled, & a bat dived to flit low across the surface of the water. & Jack saw, with a sickening certainty, that there was no way past the lampirs. They were trapped. Ben, Jack & Emily are journeying into the Polish mountains, desperate to end the fearful lampir plague. If they destroy the monstrous Count Lampirska, the evil founder of the lampir clan, then Poland’s dead can rest at last. Now they must face their final challenge, & take a stand against the terrible forces of ancient darkness… halloween-1016 ...