Marlaine Dufrane knows what it’s like to feel like an outcast. She lives it every day and wishes her life would change. Especially, she wished bullies would leave her alone.With a five hour day job after school at the local cotton and saw mill, she’s following in her parents' footsteps. Poor, overworked, underpaid, and living a hard life in 1950s Australia.But all it takes is one bite. One bite from a rat with three legs and a stumpy tail to set he...

“Seven down, seven to go, another seven must go, she did the deed, and paid for her greed, seven down and seven to go, another seven to go.”Oliver Nash finds himself smack bang in the middle of the latest serial killer crime, The Red Nose Killer Case, after his homicide detective father takes it on, and his best friend Trent dumps him and their friends in the deep end of the case.Someone’s killing clowns for fun, and so far, seven clowns have been taken down.

Terrors; it’s not always the monster in the bed that you need to worry about…Dark Shadows: Sean Gilbert’s having his friends for a night of horror movies, but they’re woken in the middle of the night. When they realise it’s not Rusty the cat, they go in search of what it may be, only to find Rusty has beaten them to it. That’s when they discover that shadows aren’t as innocent as they seem.Ne-Fairy-Ous:

Millions have seen the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, but do we actually know Freddy Krueger’s not real?This point has left Jude Lennon questioning his sanity when he starts having nightmares after watching the movies. He’s living his own version of them; being chased by a clawed hand, waking up with night sweats, and having his sheet rip into four pieces which twist themselves around him like silent assassins. But if Freddy Krueger is just a fictional character in fictional movie...

Horrors; fears that aren’t always as bad as they seem…Blood Donors Wanted: There’s a monster on the prowl and the local townspeople refuse to walk alone at night for fear of having their throats ripped out. Dr Acula needs his personal supply of life-saving fluid stocked up and needs to make the townspeople trust him enough to give him what he wants. A personal donation…Dance Night Fright: Westwood...

Flynn Jefferson’s father has hooked up with Casey York’s mother, who also happens to be their history teacher. With home life being hard for Flynn, he gets into trouble for punching a fellow student, so their parents decide to take them both away for a break. Refusing to go unless their friends can come too, they grumble the whole way, with the trip leading them to the small town of Eagle Ridge where they meet a grizzled old man who has quite a story to tell. About a plague of zombies risi...

It’s Halloween, and the students of Richmond High are out trick or treating. And, as usual, Robbie Colbert has gorged on his favourite Reese’s chocolate, making him sick to his stomach and annoying his friends no end.But he doesn’t let that stop him from entering the house at lot 666 on Derbon Street. Yes, that house. The house that every man and his dog avoids regardless of what day it is. Puffed up with bravado, Robbie decides to enter the property in search of more candy.

Ghosts; souls of the deceased who don’t believe they are deadGhosts of Op Shops Past: Michelle is being made to volunteer at the local op shop by her mother. She meets the other volunteers, has encounters with weird people, and finds an amazing sequinned jacket. But when it’s time to go and say goodbye she discovers that some of those volunteers don’t actually exist…Ghosts on a Plane: Sarah and her brother Pete are winging their way to London for a European holiday. It star...

We all know the story of Hansel and Gretel, right? But do you know the story about Hantel and Gresel?Once upon a time in some weird German black forest cake land lived twins called Hantel and Gresel. They were poor, starving children, but after being sent into the forest for food by their mother they were starving no more, for they had found the motherlode of all food.Sure it was built in the style of a house…And sure a lonely old woman liv...

***to be read after The Howler and before Faded***Elliot Gunfield has been in a coma for a month since that fateful night on Halloween. The night The Howler came into their lives and destroyed all he knew…including him.After waking, he finds that he’s different. He feels 1083 years old, that he’s lived a thousand lifetimes, and he’s running out of time. He doesn’t know why, just that he is. His dreams are haunted by bony creatures and hands pulling his heart out of his ches...

Monsters; the things we fear most aren’t hidden under the bedCroc-O-Jaws: Billy Daniels and his family are holidaying at Lake Kirriwaka, the bluest of blue natural lakes, but it holds a long dead secret that’s been spewed from the pits of the earth that only the locals know on an intimate level.Godjira: While playing it up at Japan’s newest theme park with his twin brother and parents, Dustin Hoop...

*Due to some of the stories in this book it’s only appropriate for teens 13 years plus.*Haunted; inhabited or frequented by ghosts…The House: There hadn’t been a house at the end of the street for decades, but suddenly, within days, there’s a house there, at the end of Damo’s street. Lot 666. How did it come to be built so fast? Who could have possibly done it? Or what…could have done it? And why did all t...