Sixteen-year-old Tomas and his Roma family left Slovakia because of mysterious attacks on his life when he was a child, but when they return, the same creatures of folklore begin to strike again and Tomas, aided by his cousin, will have to bargain with Death herself to set things right.
When British schoolboy Ash Mistry goes to India for a vacation, he quickly falls into a world of rakshasas, or demons, overseen by the evil Lord Alexander Savage.
The Game of Triumphs lies in ruins, but Cat and her friends must enter the Arcanum once again to oust the Master of Misrule, a corrupt leader who threatens to unleash the power of the game into London and the world at large.
During a forced vacation with his father at Leisure World, Daniel befriends Lexi, a strange girl surrounded by dark secrets, with injuries that seem to get worse instead of better, a watch that runs backwards, and a dark figure stalking her–and Daniel.
Sixteen-year-old Sarah sells her soul to reclaim her family’s estate and is given 100 years to atone for their sins, but as the bargain nears its end, modern-day Tom, yearning to attend the private school that Darkwater Hall has become, gets caught up in the bargain.
In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.
When 17-year-old Rosa Alcantara travels from her native Brooklyn to her ancestral home in Sicily, she falls head over heels for Alessandro Carnevare, whose family is the sworn enemy of hers, and must confront both of their families’ criminal–and paranormal–pasts.
The second book in bestselling author Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices trilogy.
A fabulously creepy collection of vampire lore for blood-thirsty little people. A perfect Hallowe’en collection! A bloody great collection of vampire stories from around the world, in a large, beautifully illustrated edition – a perfect keepsake.
Scotch has never quite fit in. With her white Jamacian father and black Canadian mother, she doesn’t belong with the Caribbeans, white, or blacks. Though recently she feels different for stranger reasons–her skin is being covered in spots of black stickiness that won’t go away no matter what she tries. Not to mention that she sees floating, bodiless horse heads that no one else can. But soon Scotch has even bigger problems. She’s out for a night with her brother when a bubble of light appears. Scotch dares her brother to touch it. He does, and then he disappears. A moment later a volcano emerges in Lake Ontario, and all Toronto is invaded by the Chaos. Scotch is desperate to find her brother, but she doesn’t know where to begin searching in a city gone mad. Mythical cretures sush as Sasquatches are walking down the streets, and ordinary peope are transforming in truly weird ways. Scotch herself is getting blacker and blacker. Can she find her brother before she becomes completely unrecognizable?
Renowned author Nalo Hopkinson mixes fantasy and Caribbean folklore in this rollicking story of identity and self-acceptance in a world given over to Chaos.