The creepy clown epidemic began when I was 12 years old. Creepy clowns roamed neighborhoods at night, terrifying the population. At first it was only in the U.S. Soon it spread, turning into a global craze. The wave of clown sightings even reached all the way to Denmark. Every day, the papers ran stories about clowns scaring people. Of course, the vast majority of creepy clowns were just pranksters in costumes. But not all of them. Not in Ullerup.

Brothers Lucas and Noah, ages 10 and 12, have been listening to spooky stories at the after-school center all afternoon.Urban legends.One of them was about a Japanese ghost that hides its face and hunts down the living with a pair of scissors.Good thing ghosts don’t really exist.Or do they?Terrifying Tales is a series of horror stories by author Michael Kamp.

One island. One winner. One hundred armed children.Welcome to Battle Royale. Jonas is one of one hundred children chosen to be parachute-dropped onto the island of Orø to compete in a game of life-and-death.Unfortunately, Jonas gets off to a terrible start, when he loses his gun. Now, his only weapon is a small dagger and it’s up to him to evade ninety-nine trigger-happy opponents and survive.

Simba is a real housecat. That means he’s only allowed to be indoors.You may think that sounds a bit boring, but there’s never a dull moment when you live with ComKean.Every day, ComKean gets a lot of exciting parcels in the mail full of gifts and products he has to film and test, but one day, the mailman forgets to close the front door as he leaves, and Simba’s curiosity gets the better of him.He runs down the stairwell and onto the street, and suddenly he’s far away from the safety of hi...

Mathias is a pretty ordinary boy with a pretty ordinary life.Until Granddad Paul asks him to help out in the family business.Granddad Paul is an undertaker and Mathias soon discovers something very important… the dead don’t always stay lying down.

Vercinger is about to have the worst waking nightmare of his life.When a lightning bolt strikes his computer, he and his dog, Minik, wake up and realize that they’ve been transported to a world where nobody’s safe.A world where it’s every man for himself in the fight to get a win.If you’re eliminated, you have to start over and take up the fight against an endless parade of deadly automatic weapons, wild explosions, and drooling zombies.Only one player can win.Do Vercinger and Minik have w...

World War II is drawing to a close.Despite desperate resistance, the Allies are advancing on Berlin and getting ready for the final push.Meanwhile, a small group of German soldiers is being driven to the front, when they fall into an ambush, venture deep into a forest on foot, and seek refuge in an abandoned bunker.As they soon discover, however, the dark recesses of the bunker are full of secrets, and now, they must struggle to stay sane in the face of horrors much worse than anything the...

When virtual reality offers the perfect life, the real world is all but completely forgotten.But eternal dreams are not for everybody, and the few people who cannot live them are left in an abandoned world where the majority of the population is slowly dying.

He met her at a nightclub.A fragile and beautiful creature haunted by early sorrow.It was almost too easy, he thought.Almost.

Marvin and Jim are having fun making prank calls to their friends, but a misdialed call turns their innocent prank into something much more sinister. (Winner of The Ministry of Children and Education’s Award for new Literature for Boys 2011.)

As the world crumbles into chaos, one man is left behind. Haunted by the memories of his missing wife and son, he struggles to keep his sanity.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 21th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online.The 104 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 180 papers submited for the workshops. This two-volume set includes the proceedings of the following workshops:Workshop on A...