Haig, Matt

An extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth and takes the form of mathematician Professor Andrew Martin, his first impressions are less than positive, but as time goes on he starts to realize there may be more to humans than he has been led to believe.

Samuel and Martha move to Norway to live with their Aunt Edna following the death of their parents and are drawn to the attic and the Shadow Forest behind the house inspite of their aunt's warning to stay away from them.

The Radleys, a modern suburban family living in an English town, have a terrible secret. Peter and Helen are vampires who have abstained from blood for seventeen years to keep their children, Rowan and Clara, from turning into vampires as well. When Clara commits a violent act, the family is forced to confront their past in order to protect one of their own.

Prince, a black Labrador, struggles mightily to protect his family, the Hunters, but finds the challenges of caring for people who are their own worst enemies to be nearly overwhelming.

Accompanied by his aunt's Norwegian elkhound, Ibsen, twelve-year-old Samuel ventures into a weird forest filled with strange and dangerous creatures to rescue his younger sister, Martha, who has been mute since their parents' recent death.

Eleven-year-old Philip Noble finds himself with a dilemma on his hands when he is contacted by a ghost that claims to be his father and tells him he must kill his Uncle Alan--his dad's supposed killer--sometime within the next ten weeks or doom dear old dad to an eternity of unrest.

Despite his having been careful not to enter the Shadow Forest, as his Aunt Eda had warned, twelve-year-old Samuel Blink finds himself in a difficult situation when Troll-Son runs away from his Shadow Forest home with aims to live with Samuel, his human hero.

The Radleys, an eccentric family of vampires living in the suburbs, struggle but try to deny their natural instincts to avoid eating the neighbors and fit in with their peers.