A gripping gothic novel by master storyteller Chris Priestley

Do you dare to read the Tales of Terror? A stunning and commercial new paperback package for this chilling collection of short stories, illustrated throughout by David Roberts and featuring a gloriously creepy new cover! 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...

Do you dare to read the Tales of Terror? A stunning and commercial new paperback package for this chilling collection of short stories, illustrated throughout by David Roberts and featuring a gloriously creepy new cover! A boy is put on a train by his stepmother to make his first journey on his own. But what should be a thrilling ride becomes weirder than anyone could have imagined when the train stalls at the mouth of a tunnel and an elegant woman in white offers to help the boy while away the hours by telling him stories. But these are stories with a difference – and each is more...

Do you dare to read the Tales of Terror? A stunning and commercial new paperback package for this chilling collection of short stories, illustrated throughout by David Roberts and featuring a gloriously creepy new cover. 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...

During a tour of a stately house, Jake soon discovers that something is very, very wrong ... The award-winning author of Tales of Terror stirs up old ghosts in this spine-tingling, multi-narrative horror. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+

Román autora cyklu Příšerných příběhů se odehrává v typicky britské internátní škole „pro ne právě bystré syny ne zrovna bohatých rodičů“, sídlící na středověkém hradě kdesi na venkově. Vyučování vedené poněkud výstředním učitelským sborem naruší nevysvětlitelné události – zjevují se duchové, ztrácejí se pedagogové a památeční předměty, a následkem toho dokonce hrozí, že budou zrušeny vánoční prázdniny. Podaří se žákům rozjet detektivní pátrání, které by tuto katastrofu odvrátilo? Chris Priestley tentokrát s...

Nudné a skličující Moldánkovské věže se opět stávají dějištěm záhad, napínavých pátrání a nemilosrdných slovních soubojů. Ožívá dávno zapomenutá minulost, objevují se pověsti, že v Moldánkovských věžích je ukryt poklad. A poklad by přišel vhod leckomu, takže nastává horečné pátrání, při němž dojde na lsti, úskoky a strašlivé výhrůžky. Podaří se Rosolovi a Piškotovi i tentokrát zachránit situaci? Ovládli stroj času, ubránili se útoku vlkodlaka, ale nebude nájezd hordy pirátů příliš velké sousto i na ně?
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Not everything is as it seems for Maya and her classmates as their creative-writing assignment takes on a sinister twist in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales from master of scary stories Chris Priestley.