horror fiction

When Billy goes away to summer camp, he suspects something evil is going on when fellow campers begin to disappear and his parents will not answer his letters.

A collection of eleven short stories, previously published online, that illuminate the life of the enigmatic, flashy, and flamboyant High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, a character in "The Mortal Instruments" series.

"Kate Lipton's family has some strange ideas. Her dad is convinced that their family should be running a farm ... for lizards. Who doesn't love lizards? The whole family takes a trip to Australia to find the most exciting and rare species. They return home with a mysterious egg. Kate can't wait for the egg to hatch. It feels like it's taking forever! But when it finally does, strange things start to happen"--Back cover.

Seventh-grader Timothy July and his new friend Abigail try to break a curse that is causing them and others to be tormented by their greatest fears brought to life.

Sixteen-year-old Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from Austin, Texas to Ridgemont, Washington into a house where Sunshine is followed by an icy breeze, a phantom wind slams her bedroom shut, and on her first night she hears laughter that turns into sobs. With her mother in danger, Sunshine must accept what she is to save her.

"Poppy, Marcus, Dash, Dylan, and Azumi are all trapped within Shadow House, a sinister estate where past and present intertwine. As they fight to find a way out, the kids think the ghosts of the house are the greatest danger they face. Little do the kids know it's the secrets they're each hiding that will prove even more lethal. They're going to have to come face-to-face with their fears if they stand any hope of escaping the house alive..."--Jacket flap.

Contains three novels by L.J. Smith, and includes "Secret Vampire," in which Poppy asks her secret lover James to make her immortal after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, "Daughters of Darkeness," that describes the lives of three vampire sisters, and "Spellbinder" in which two witch cousins fight over their high school crush.

Contains two frightening tales by R.L. Stine, including "Stay Away From the Tree House" in which Dylan and Steve have a spooky night sleeping in a tree house, and "Eye of the Fortuneteller" in which Kelsey's fears start to come true after an encounter with a psychic.

Following the outbreak of a disease that has turned everyone over the age of sixteen into zombies, a group of young survivors barricade themselves in a store and struggle to survive. Eventually, they are offered a safe haven within Buckingham Palace, but quickly discover that the dangers inside the palace are just as real as those outside it.