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Nachdem Marlowe wegen einer explodierenden Kerze aus Versehen das Haus ihrer Nachbarn niederbrennt und in der ganzen Stadt dafür ausgelacht wird, nimmt sie einen Ferienjob auf einer abgelegenen Insel an. Dort soll sie gemeinsam mit einer Gruppe anderer Teenager Führungen durch eine alte verlassene Villa anbieten. Doch die sommerliche Idylle bleibt nicht lange so sonnig, denn schon bald wirft die Vergangenheit einen düsteren Schatten über die Insel.

When a child trafficking network sets up a fake student exchange programme, families from around the world fall for it. Seventeen-year-old Kendall jets off on what she believes will be a Californian adventure. First stop: a luxurious hillside mansion for 'Orientation Week'. Blinded by the opulence and their own naivety, the youngsters cavort. Meanwhile hidden cameras transmit images to international buyers of them flirting, sleeping, bathing and playing. Slowly, Kendall begins to suspect that something is wrong.

Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and stepdad. They left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and have finally returned, wagering the last of their family's money on fixing up an old, rundown house and converting it to a bed and breakfast. Nothing seems to work around the place, which doesn't seem too weird to Denise. The unexplained noises are a little more out of the ordinary, but again, nothing too unusual. But when floors collapse, deadly objects rain down, and she hears creepy voices, it's clear to Denise that something more sinister lurks hidden here.

It's the season to scream . . . Prom turns deadly in this unputdownable thriller for fans of Halloween Kills and Fear Street. A KILLER AFTERPARTY . . . When Kylie walks into the gorgeous beach house, it’s a dream come true. She still can’t believe she talked her parents into letting her...

From the author of Some Kind of Animal comes a wildly unique story about an invisible girl struggling to see herself in a world obsessed with appearances. Pie is the ghost in your house. She is not dead, she is invisible. The way she looks changes depending on what is behind her. A girl of glass...

Four months after the deadly overlord Molek has been banished beyond the city limits of Masonville, Texas, Owen Edmonds’s crucial mission to save lives escalates when seven Cosmic Rulers of darkness close in to decimate his town―and nation. As the battle between good and evil culminates in an epic standoff, Owen and his girlfriend, Ray Anne, must make the decision of a lifetime: will they face their fears or run? The Defiance is the third book in the Delusion series.

Two hard-nosed bosses scrap for control of America’s largest union. When the Devil's Elbow roller coaster goes off track, killing one teenager and maiming two others, everyone thinks it's just an accident...except Tess. She saw someone tampering with the track. Then another "accident" occurs in the Funhouse and Tess may have been the intended victim.

At the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle there. But for Mavi - a bold Buenos Aires native fleeing the military regime that took her mother - it offers an escape to a new life as a young teacher to Argentina’s elite girls. Mavi tries to embrace the strangeness of the imposing house - despite warnings not to roam at night, threats from an enigmatic young man, and rumors of mysterious Others. But one of Mavi’s 10 students is missing, and students and teachers begin to behave as if possessed.

Sixteen-year-old Quinn is a liar, but she isn’t a murderer. When her sleepy town of Boiling Springs, North Carolina is roused by the murder of a local teen, Quinn is thrust into a life of danger, disrupting her normally unnoticeable existence. Now romantically involved with Gilly, the best friend of the dead girl who also happens to be the sheriff’s daughter, Quinn must navigate a budding relationship in the midst of all the chaos surrounding Gilly and her friend group.

Hannah Baker will nach einem Schulwechsel ein neues Leben beginnen, doch 13 Begegnungen treiben sie in den Tod. Ein Thriller, der unter die Haut geht, wie kaum ein anderer – denn tote Mädchen lügen nicht... Als Clay Jensen aus der Schule nach Hause kommt, findet er ein Päckchen mit 13 Kassetten vor. Er legt die erste in einen alten Kassettenrekorder, drückt auf "Play" - und hört die Stimme von Hannah Baker. Hannah, seine ehemalige Mitschülerin. Hannah, für die er heimlich schwärmte. Hannah, die sich vor zwei Wochen umgebracht hat.

If you're looking for the scariest stories you can get your hands on, your search is over. Accomplished storyteller Roberta Simpson Brown unfolds her thrilling stories for listeners of all ages.

These shivery tales were collected from the oral tradition, from people all over the Southwest, and represent the rich cultural diversity of the region, from the Ozarks to the Rio Grande, California to the Big Thicket.

Scary stories help children face fear and master it, by portraying the elements of conflict in clear, good-versus-evil terms with good triumphant in the end.

Night Terrors features two classic tales of terror. "When I Was Dead" is the story of an eccentric young man and his unwise attempts to conjure a ghostly apparition, and "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of a man who cheats death only to discover that there are far worse fates than the hereafter.