Authors
- F. Marion Crawford
- B.M. Croker
- J.S. Le Fanu
- Ambrose Bierce
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1998-10
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.78
Review Classic Chilling Tales: v. 3 (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Tracey Lloyd
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-11-29
RRP: £37.95
Price: £39.94
Review The Sleeper / ISIS Audio Books:
Publication date: 2005-03
RRP: £39.95
Price: £41.94
Review Necessary Evil / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Nigel Planer
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-12
RRP: £23.44
Price: £38.73
Review Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Children's Audio Books:
Creator: Jean Waggoner
Publication date: 1993-06
RRP: £15.22
Price: £15.22
Review The Mill Pond Ghost and Other Stories: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Children's Audio Books:
Publication date: 1994-09
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £8.42
Price: £22.11
Review You are Special: Words of Wisdom from America's Most Beloved Neighbor / Signet:
Creator: Richard Pasco
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1993-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.49
Price: £14.48
Review Classic Ghost Stories: v. 1 & 2 / CSA WORD:
Creator: Brigit Forsyth
Publication date: 2000-06-30
Price: £9.00
Review My Friend's a Werewolf: Complete & Unabridged / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:Simon's voice grew more muffled. I guessed he was bending down and whispering to Plute just as I'd seen him do before. I should have left then. Plute was back home-and my parents would be going mad wondering where I was. How I wish I'd left then. But I didn't. I wanted Simon to know it was me who had brought Plute back. The kitchen door was pushed open again. "Now, stop it, you're still wet," said Simon. But Plute obviously didn't want to be dried. [+]I could see the bottom half of his body wriggling about. "Simon…" the word stopped in my mouth. As I'd seen something. Then I saw it again, moving across Plute's back. It was a hand. But a hand covered in hair. Thick, black, bristly hair. And the fingernails were very sharp and pointed, like claws…The title may have come straight from a 50s B-movie but this is a modern-day morality tale that never quite delivers what you expect. When a new boy arrives in town, Kelly is determined to make friends with him, and they bond instantly. But it isn't long before Kelly notices something is not quite right about her new friend. He wears gloves all the time, as if he is trying to hide something, there is hair starting to grow on his face even though he isn't yet old enough to start make choices on shaving products and the howling noises Kelly hears at night seem to be a little too close for comfort. But Simon couldn't be a werewolf could he? After all, werewolves aren't real, they only exist in the movies. And in the movies, they are also very, very dangerous. Have no fear, Simon's secret is never going to be what you expect, but the sympathy Johnson evokes is at times painful but never less than real, despite the far-fetched situation he has found himself in. It's a credit to Johnson's skill as a storyteller that the story never descends into melodrama as the touching friendship between Kelly and Simon transcends the prejudice and ignorance displayed by the adults. Not quite as creepy as Johnson's other Yearling titles, it still has a spooky air about it and plenty of mystery. The convincing narrative and subtly delivered moral message will leave children with more than a little to think about at the end. Frighteningly good! (Ages 8 upwards. ) - Jonathan Weir.
Creator: Richard Pasco
Publication date: 1992-10
Price: £6.30
Review Classic Ghost Stories: v. 2 / CSA WORD:
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: roddy mcdowall
Publication date: 1989
Review Communion: A True Story (audio-book) / collins/dove:3 hours,2 tapes. The author tells the true story of his encounters with intelligent nonhuman beings and explains how his initial skepticism turned into a frightened but clear and open curiosity.
Creator: Steven Pacey
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-09
RRP: £15.22
Price: £14.89
Review Killer Mushrooms Ate My Gran: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Children's Audio Books:You can pretty much guarantee that any book with the title Killer Mushrooms Ate My Gran is going to be something rather extraordinary, and you really will not be disappointed. Whether you are looking for laugh-out-loud hilarity, a touch of the spooky or simply a cracking good story, then this could well be the book for you. Maggot, our hero, and his gran discover some strange mushrooms that look like huge red brains and have the ability to infiltrate the human brain with their spores. When the mushrooms get their evil way with his gran, Maggot decides that enough is enough and sets out to save her from the horror of it all, while simultaneously saving mankind from their poison-no mean feat considering the fugitive fungi seem to have plans to take over the world. Killer Mushrooms Ate My Gran is just about as exciting a story as you can get, and successfully combines the kind of slapstick humour that appeals to kids with tense and scary moments that are topped off beautifully with a bucket load of gunge. Author Susan Gates has given us a book that will undoubtedly appeal to even the most reluctant of readers, and one that will surely become an all-time favourite. Age 8 and over. -Susan Harrison.
Creator: William Dufris
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-02-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £41.95
Price: £43.94
Review '48 / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Mark Little
Publication date: 2000-06-04
Price: £7.99
Review Unseen!: Unabridged (Puffin audiobooks) / Penguin Children's Audiobooks:In Australia, Paul Jennings has sold millions of books and won stacks of awards. His acclaimed collections of immensely readable and addictive short stories with a twist in the tale are his trademark. Unseen! is his ninth such book and, reassuringly, it has exactly the same appeal and that slightly subversive and supernatural bent as his first, Unreal!. Uniformly strong, all eight stories feature an inspiring central character and young readers will certainly not need any encouragement to dip into them once discovered. Each alternates between hilarity, poignancy, triumph over wrongdoing, the eerily spooky and often the plain bizarre. "One-Finger Salute" is about a boy who develops a very handy skill of being able to grow extra fingers-but sometimes in places he wish they wouldn't. "Squawk Talk" features a parrot that won't go away and is determined to teach a bully a thing or two about manners. "Seeshell" stars a very strange crustacean that won't stop predicting doom and gloom to its owner. There are more too-each one defined by an originality and with a clear message of good intention that makes them adored by children and adults alike. The short sentences, quick-fire plot and pay-off scenarios have encouraged thousands of young readers to respond so positively to these mini-masterpieces. [+]Unseen! is a must-have book for reluctant readers and lovers of the unusual-hopefully not the last from Jennings' pen and extraordinarily creative mind. (Age 8 and over) -John McLay.
Authors
- Patrick Nobes
- Mary Shelley
Publication date: 1998-01-22
RRP: £8.81
Price: £8.80
Review Frankenstein: 1000 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library) / OUP Oxford:
Edition: Pap/Cas
Publication date: 1997-07
Dewey code: 792.102908
Price: £6.28
Review Ghosts of Fear Street Audiobook - Why I'm Not Afraid of Ghosts: Cassette (Ghosts of Fear Street (Audio)) / Simon & Schuster:
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-04-01
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £15.27
Price: £4.84
Review Beautys Punishment (3/300) (Sleeping Beauty) / HarperCollins:
Creator: Joe McGann
Publication date: 1995-09-01
RRP: £3.98
Price: £2.95
Review Virgo: Snake Inside (Horrorscopes) / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Steve Hodson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-01
RRP: £52.95
Price: £54.94
Review Sacrament: Complete & Unabridged (Gold Range) / ISIS Gold Audio Books:A boy has an encounter with a man who causes extinctions of other species, and as a result grows up to be a man who documents (and thus appeals for a halt to) those extinctions. This dark fantasy tale is unlike most of Clive Barker's work, being more tightly plotted, and more of this world. In a sequence of well-executed stories within stories (comparable to Russian dolls), Barker unfolds a compelling examination of what it means to be human, to be a man and, more specifically, to be a gay man on a planet where ageing, disease and death bring "the passing of things, of days and beasts and men he'd loved. " A satisfying long novel packed with vivid images, memorable characters and a melancholy mood that reaches for hope.
Creator: Sian Philips
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1997-08-31
Price: £8.99
Review A Warlock in Whitby (Fiction: The Whitby audiotapes) / Hodder Wayland:
Creator: Peter Wickham
Publication date: 2006-01
RRP: £34.95
Price: £34.95
Review A Ruinous Wind / Soundings:
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Classic Chilling Tales: v. 3 (Classic fiction), The Sleeper, Necessary Evil, Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids: Complete & Unabridged, The Mill Pond Ghost and Other Stories: Complete & Unabridged, You are Special: Words of Wisdom from America's Most Beloved Neighbor, Classic Ghost Stories: v. 1 & 2, My Friend's a Werewolf: Complete & Unabridged, Classic Ghost Stories: v. 2, Communion: A True Story (audio-book), Killer Mushrooms Ate My Gran: Complete & Unabridged, '48, Unseen!: Unabridged (Puffin audiobooks), Frankenstein: 1000 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms Library), Ghosts of Fear Street Audiobook - Why I'm Not Afraid of Ghosts: Cassette (Ghosts of Fear Street (Audio)), Beautys Punishment (3/300) (Sleeping Beauty), Virgo: Snake Inside (Horrorscopes), Sacrament: Complete & Unabridged (Gold Range), A Warlock in Whitby (Fiction: The Whitby audiotapes), A Ruinous Wind |
