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By Catherine Jinks F JIN

Allie's family move into an old townhouse, and discover mysterious writings appearing on the walls of her younger brother’s bedroom. Much to her dismay, he refuses to sleep in his room, preferring to share with Allie. Determined to be rid of her unwelcomed guest, Allie investigates, only to discover that the house may be haunted by Eglantine Higgins, the ghost of a young girl who used to live in the house.

First book in the

Allie’s Ghost Hunters series.

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The glass children


By Kristina Ohlsson F OHL

Billie and her mother move into an old dilapidated house in a small town. Amongst the musty furniture and odd belongings are two small glass figures, one boy and one girl. When the glass figures have been moved even though the house has been empty, Billie is certain that they are being haunted. Whilst her mother thinks Billie is making it up, Billie desperately tries to uncover the house’s dark, tragic history . . .

First book in the

Glass children series.

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Coraline


By Neil Gaiman F GAI

In Coraline's family's new flat there's a locked door. On the other side is a brick wall until Coraline unlocks the door . . . and finds a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.

Only different.

The food is better there. Books have pictures that writhe and crawl and shimmer. And there's another mother and father there who want Coraline to be their little girl. They want to "change" her and keep her with them…"Forever".

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Doll bones


By Holly Black F BLA

Zach, Poppy, and Alice have been friends forever. And for almost as long, they’ve been playing one continuous, ever-changing game involving a bone-china doll who curses those who displease her.

But when Zach quits the game. Their friendship might be over, until Poppy declares she's been having dreams about the Queen - and the ghost of a girl who will not rest until the bone-china doll is buried in her empty grave…

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Small spaces


By Katherine Arden F ARD

After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think - she just acts, stealing the book and running away.

As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister spectre who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price.

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The night gardener


By Jonathan Auxier F AUX

The Night Gardener follows two abandoned Irish siblings who travel to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house. But the house and its family are not quite what they seem.

Soon the children are confronted by a mysterious spectre and an ancient curse that threatens their very lives.

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Skeleton man


By Joseph Bruchac F BRU

Ever since the morning Molly woke up to find that her parents had vanished, her life has become filled with terrible questions. Where have her parents gone? Who is this spooky old man who's taken her to live with him, claiming to be her great-uncle? Why does he never eat, and why does he lock her in her room at night? What are her dreams of the Skeleton Man trying to tell her?

There's one thing Molly does know. She needs to find some answers before it's too late.

First book in the

The skeleton man series.

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The spook's apprentice


By Joseph Delaney F DEL

Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has been apprenticed to the local Spook.

The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches and bind boggarts.

But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins . . .

First book in the

Wardstone Chronicles series.

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The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls


By Claire Legrand F LEG

Victoria hates nonsense. There is no need for it when your life is perfect. The only smudge on her pristine life is her best friend Lawrence. He is a disaster—lazy and dreamy, shirt always untucked, obsessed with his silly piano. Victoria often wonders why she ever bothered being his friend.

But then Lawrence goes missing. And he’s not the only one. Victoria soon discovers that The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls is not what it appears to be. Kids go in but come out…different. Or they don’t come out at all.

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The nest


By Kenneth Oppel F OPP

For some kids summer is the season of fun. But for Steve, it’s just another season of worries. Worries about his sick newborn baby brother who is fighting to survive, worries about his parents who are struggling to cope, even worries about the wasp’s nest looming ominously from the eaves. So when the wasp queen invades his dreams, offering to “fix” the baby, Steve thinks his prayers have been answered.

All he has to do is say “Yes.” But “yes” is a powerful word. It is also a dangerous one. And once it is uttered, can it be taken back?

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The nightmarys


By Dan Poblocki F POB

Timothy’s secret is giving him nightmares. Abigail’s nightmares are haunting her . . . while she is awake. When they team up for a school project, they don't realize that Abigail's past and Timothy's present are making them the target of a terrible curse. A curse that turns their worst fears to reality.

But their fears are just the beginning. The curse stems from a strange artefact that gains strength by devouring a human soul. And it needs to feed again.

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Hoodoo


By Ronald L. Smith F SMI

Hoodoo Hatcher was born into a family with a rich tradition of practicing folk magic: hoodoo, as most people call it. But even though his name is Hoodoo, he can't seem to cast a simple spell.

Then a mysterious man comes to town, and Hoodoo starts dreaming of the dead rising. Even worse, he soon learns the Stranger is looking for a boy. Not just any boy. A boy named Hoodoo. The entire town is at risk from the Stranger's black magic, and only Hoodoo can defeat him. He’ll just need to learn how to conjure first.

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The tulip touch


By Anne Fine F FIN

Nobody wants Tulip in their gang.

She skives off school, cheeks the teachers and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling awful lies. None of this matters to Natalie who finds Tulip exciting.

At first, she doesn't care that other people are upset and unnerved by Tulip's bizarre games, but as the games become increasingly sinister and dangerous, Natalie realises that Tulip is going too far, much too far…

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Splendors and glooms


By Laura Amy Schlitz F SCH

Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor has vanished. Suspicion of her kidnapping falls upon Gaspare Grisini a master puppeteer and, by association, his orphaned assistants Lizzie Rose and Parsefall.

As they seek to puzzle out Clara’s whereabouts, Lizzie and Parse uncover Grisini’s criminal past and wake up to his evil intentions. Fleeing London, they find themselves caught in a trap set by Grisini’s ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it’s too late.

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A path begins


By J.A. White F WHI

When Kara Westfall was five years old, her mother was convicted of witchcraft. Years later, Kara and her little brother, Taff, are still shunned by the people of their village, who believe that nothing is more evil than magic… except, perhaps, the Thickety, the mysterious forest that covers nearly the entire island.

The villagers live in fear of the Thickety, and when an unusual bird lures Kara into the forbidden forest, she discovers a strange book with unspeakable powers. A book that might have belonged to her mother.

First book in the

Thickety series.

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Ghost Abbey


By Robert Westall F WES

Maggi is delighted when her father takes a new job, renovating a crumbling stately home in Cheshire, England. It's a chance to escape from the North-East, from the predatory Doris Streeton, and perhaps from the grief at the heart of Maggi's family.

But Maggi gradually comes to realize that their new home holds secrets far more sinister than anything they have left behind…

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Marianne dreams


By Catherine Storr F STO

Ill and bored with having to stay in bed, Marianne picks up a pencil and starts doodling - a house, a garden, a boy at the window. That night she has an extraordinary dream. She is transported into her own picture, and as she explores further she soon realises she is not alone. The boy at the window is called Mark, and his every movement is guarded by the menacing stone watchers that surround the solitary house. Together, in their dreams, Marianne and Mark must save themselves...

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Uncle Montague’s

tales of terror


By Chris Priestley F PRI

Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house and his regular visits from his nephew give him the opportunity to retell some of the most frightening stories he knows.

But as the stories unfold, another even more spine-tingling narrative emerges, one that is perhaps the most frightening of all. Uncle Montague's tales of terror, it transpires, are not so much works of imagination as dreadful, lurking memories. Memories of an earlier time in which Uncle Montague lived a very different life to his present solitary existence…

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Charlie and the grandmothers


By Katy Towell F TOW

Charlie and Georgie Oughtt have been sent to visit their Grandmother Pearl, and this troubles Charlie for three reasons. The first is that he is an exceptionally nervous twelve-year-old boy, and he worries about everything. The second is that the other children in his neighbourhood who pay visits to their grandmothers never seem to return. And the third is that Charlie and Georgie don’t "have" any grandmothers.

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The curse of the blue figurine


By John Bellairs F BEL

When Professor Childermass learns that Johnny Dixon loves ghost stories, he tells the boy the the tale of the haunted church on the edge of town, with demonic carvings on its altar, and the troubled spirit of mad Father Baart, who is said to have killed two people before vanishing long ago. With the professor as his guide, Johnny sets out on a quest that will put him face-to-face with the crazy, long-dead priest.

First book in the

Johnny Dixon series.

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Wait till Helen comes


By Mary Downing Hahn F HAH

Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable.

Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them…

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Short and scary


Edited by Karen Tayleur SS HOR

An anthology of creepy and scary stories from some of Australia's much-loved creators, including Carole Wilkinson, Shaun Tan, James Roy, Andy Griffiths, Terry Denton, James Moloney, Sally Rippin, Lili Wilkinson, Susanne Gervay, Meredith Costain and Barry Jonsberg.

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Tales of terror

from the black ship


By Chris Priestley F PRI

At the Old Inn, which clings precariously to a cliff top above a storm-lashed ocean, two sick children are left alone while their father fetches the doctor.

Then a visitor comes begging for shelter, and so begins a long night of storytelling, in which young Ethan and Cathy, who have an unnatural appetite for stories of a macabre persuasion, sit out the last throes of the storm in the company of a sailor with more than enough grisly tales to satisfy them.

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The riverman


By Aaron Starmer F STA

Fiona is not your typical girl next door. Alistair hasn't really thought of her since they were little kids until she shows up at his doorstep one day and asks him to write her biography. This odd project gradually turns into a frightening glimpse into the mind of a troubled girl. Fiona says that in her basement, there's a portal that leads to a world where the Riverman is stealing the souls of children. And Fiona's soul could be next. If she really believes what she's saying, Alistair fears she may be crazy. But if it's true, her life could be at risk.

First book in the

Riverman series.

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There is absolutely NO WAY that I am going out there!! It's dark, cold and windy, the abandoned mansion next door looks like it’s possessed, probably by the inhabitants of the ancient graveyard situated behind it, and those bloodcurdling howls are scaring the heck out of me!!

Or maybe I might just go and have a quick peek...

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