<p>This enchanting book, adorned with imaginative illustrations, contains a world of wonder for eager minds. This exquisite literary treasure invites young readers to take an unforgettable journey into the captivating world of Ruskin Bond's storytelling mastery. Some Hill Station Ghosts and Other Stories compiles some of his most fascinating stories such as The Photograph, Some Hill Station Ghosts, The Trouble with Jinns, and The Shadow on the Wall, to take its readers on the adventure of a lifetime.<br></p>

<p>While investigating a spate of unexplained deaths in a remote village, Mumbai-based</p><p>journalist Mamta learns of the dakini: a bloodthirsty entity that haunts the surrounding</p><p>forests, leaving mutilated corpses in her wake.</p><p>As the villagers' terror grows, so does their dangerous suspicion of women. With lives</p><p>on the line, including her own, Mamta is dragged into a race against time - all whilst</p><p>trying to escape her traumatic past, which threatens to turn her own mind against her.</p><p>By bestselling horror writer K. Hari Kumar, Dakini is a thrilling depiction of human</p><p>courage in the face of terrifying adversity, and of superstition dwarfed by the power of</p><p>the supernatural. It is a tale that is not easily forgotten.</p>

<p>Fear never dies…</p><p>These stories from eighteen masters of the craft will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror.</p><p>An exploited child worker in the silver mines of Bolivia finds an ally – but at what cost? A young</p><p>woman's workplace affair has terrifying repercussions when her lover's wife dies. A sailor's wife takes&nbsp;</p><p>her communion with Nature a little too far…</p><p>From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother's advice</p><p>a touch too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot</p><p>escape his tormentor; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead</p><p>parent’s corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche</p><p>and dredges up some very modern horrors.</p><p>Featuring stories by: Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber,</p><p>Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy</p><p>Rose, Lionel Shriver, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Francine Toon, Evie Wyld and Louisa Young.</p>

<p>"Splendid . . . what really sells this imaginative, scary, verge-of-growing-up tale is its characters, each with a distinct voice and personality. . . . Kois' surprising second novel is a natural for fans of the character-based horror fiction of Grady Hendrix or Paul Tremblay and will win him a whole new sphere of readers." —Booklist</p><p>"Marvelous, tender, and unpredictable, Hampton Heights captures the uncanniness and discomfort of early adolescence. There’s a pinch of Ray Bradbury, a soupçon of Stephen King, a dash of fairy tale logic, but Dan Kois makes something entirely his own out of this familiar and always pleasurable territory."—Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love</p><p>"Like Stand by Me mixed with Stranger Things and The Twilight Zone, Hampton Heights is a rollicking chronicle of youth set loose among mystery and monsters. Dan Kois deftly conjures a boundless world that's chilling, wondrous, and delightful."—Adam Sternbergh, author of The Eden Test</p><p>From the author of the Washington Post notable novel Vintage Contemporaries, something completely unexpected: a hair-raising and rollicking adventure set on one night in 1987, when six paperboys must confront a slew of monsters as well as their own personal demons in a haunted Midwestern neighborhood.</p><p>On a cold winter’s evening in 1987, six middle-school paperboys wander an unfamiliar Milwaukee neighborhood, selling newspaper subscriptions, fueled by their manager Kevin’s promises of cash bonuses and dinner at Burger King. But the freaks come out at night in Hampton Heights. Sent out into the neighborhood in pairs, the boys will encounter a host of primordial monsters—and triumph over them.</p><p>Sigmone, who is bussed to a white school, is stuck with Joel, a white kid who idolizes Black culture. Mark, who's wrestling with his sexuality, joins his secret crush, Ryan. Nishu and Al are outsiders; one is a second-generation immigrant, the other a poor kid in a rich school. Over the course of one eventful evening, the three pairs will encounter the wild things of Hampton Heights—werewolves, witches with a centuries-old story to tell, and a creepy, ancient monster who feeds on memories. Meanwhile, Kevin is having an adventure of his own, seducing a beautiful woman in the neighborhood’s tavern . . . but who is actually in control?</p><p>Funny, thrilling, outrageous, and sneakily beautiful, Dan Kois’s Hampton Heights captures without sentimentality the dreams and fears of teenage boys in a tender horror-comedy about camaraderie, bravery, vulnerability, and the terrifying prospect of growing up.</p><div><br></div>

<p>The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated “community” that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread akin to the social horror of Jordan Peele and Lovecraft County—We Came to Welcome You cleverly uses the uncanny to illuminate the cultish, shocking nature of systemic racism.</p><p>Where beauty lies, secrets are held…ugly ones.</p><p>Sol Reyes has had a rough year. After a series of workplace incidents at her university lab culminates in a plagiarism accusation, Sol is put on probation. Dutiful visits to her homophobic father aren’t helping her mental health, and she finds her nightly glass of wine becoming more of an all-day—and all-bottle—event. Her wife, Alice Song, is far more optimistic. After all, the two finally managed to buy a house in the beautiful, gated community of Maneless Grove.</p><p>However, the neighbors are a little too friendly in Sol’s opinion. She has no interest in the pushy Homeowners Association, their bizarrely detailed contract, or their never-ending microaggressions. But Alice simply attributes their pursuit to the community motto: “Invest in a neighborly spirit”…which only serves to irritate Sol more.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Suddenly, a number of strange occurrences—doors and stairs disappearing, roots growing inside the house—cause Sol to wonder if her social paranoia isn’t built on something more sinister. Yet Sol’s fears are dismissed as Alice embraces their new home and becomes increasingly worried instead about Sol’s drinking and manic behavior. When Sol finds a journal in the property from a resident that went missing a few years ago, she realizes why they were able to buy the house so easily…</p><p>Through Sol’s razor-sharp tongue and macabre sense of humor, Tirado explores the very real pressures to assimilate with one’s surroundings to “survive,” while also asking the question: Is it survival when you’re no longer your true self? Because in Maneless Grove, either you become a good neighbor—or you die.</p>

<p>Perfect for fans of Ace of Spades and The Taking of Jake Livingston, this young adult horror debut follows a group of teens as they visit an abandoned reform school—and then return two years later to confront the supernatural evil they awoke there.&nbsp;</p><p>Two years ago, four friends went into the abandoned religious reform school Dominic House.</p><p>Only three came out.</p><p>Riley still bears horrific scars from that night. He doesn’t speak to his friends anymore. And he’s haunted by the truth: Riley’s boyfriend, Ethan, didn’t disappear...Something in that house took him.</p><p>Now, alongside TV’s most famous ghost hunter, Jordan Jones, Riley is returning, determined to find out what happened to Ethan.</p><p>But as the night wears on, Riley realizes he isn’t just revisiting the most terrifying night of his life—he’s reliving it. And this time, whatever lives in Dominic House will make sure they all stay.</p><p>With an eerily elegant voice, dual timelines that slowly unravel a chilling ghost story, themes of religious trauma, and secrets in every corner, Trespass Against Us is the kind of horror story that will keep you up long into the night.</p>

<p>A teen girl's attempt to make amends with her former friendship group takes a sinister turn during a weekend getaway at an ancestral Irish estate in this atmospheric, literary horror from the author of Those We Drown.&nbsp;</p><p>At the illustrious Grey scott's Academy , reputation is every thing...</p><p>For Meg the rules are simple: keep your head down, know your place, and stay invisible until graduation. That is, until the glamorous and intimidating Wren twins - Lottie and Sebastien - decide to take Meg under their gilded wings. But not all that glitters is gold.</p><p>Follow ing an incident at the Midsummer Ball, Meg finds herself suspended from school and shunned by Lottie, Sebastien and all their friends. Desperate to make amends, she accepts an unexpected invitation to an exclusive party at Wren Hall.&nbsp;</p><p>But when one of the party-goers disappears and a violent storm traps the group inside the house, she realizes there's more to the Wren tw ins than meets the eye.</p><p>"No one does horror quite like Amy Goldsmith! Our Wicked Histories is an expertly crafted novel sure to haunt you long after the very last page" - SKYLA ARNDT, author of Together We Rot&nbsp;</p><p>"Our Wicked Histories lured me into its watery depths and left me gasping for air" - CYNTHIA MURPHY , author of Win Lose Kill Die</p>

<p>Some of the most hypnotically spooky and unsettling ghost stories ever written have been set in the forests, dak bungalows and hill stations of India and the brooding wilderness of pre-modern Japan. And among the masters of this genre are legendary writers like Rudyard Kipling and Ruskin Bond, and three brilliant storytellers who should be better known: Bithia Mary Croker and Alice Perrin—mistresses of the ‘Raj supernatural’—and Lafcadio Hearn, who took Japanese culture to the West. This box set brings together four collections of their best ghost stories.</p><p>A dead woman who comes calling for her husband; a schoolboy who sees two ghosts—or perhaps the same ghost twice—in a pine forest; an ayah who sings to an invisible baby; a mandarin duck that pursues a hunter; a haunted horse; a phantom rickshaw; a banjo-playing spirit. These and other apparitions float through the gripping, atmospheric tales in this ghostly box set.</p>