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A boy alone on a mysterious misty island. An ancient pirate ship rising from the depths. A wild chase to find a hidden treasure that will change everything. Dylan Wylde’s frightened, and with good reason. His brother’s a bully, he’s left his friends behind and now he’s been forced to move to Whidbey Island, or Weirdbey Island as the locals call it. Throw in a shady secret society, a monstrous sea beast, and a desperate chase to discover a buried treasure before a cursed pirate and his ghostly crew finds it first. And he hasn’t even unpacked yet.

Dive into Eldritch Black’s Spooky Stories and venture into a wondrous collection of astonishing tales. Within this book you’ll find seven eerie stories and oddities that will sweep you away to other worlds. You’ll encounter twisted trolls, and vengeful Victorian ghosts. Discover mysterious potions that aren’t what they seem, and teenage witches battling fairytale foes. Unearth the legendary Spring-Heeled Jack, as well as the trials and tribulations of an elfin Letter Getter, while relentless Pumpkin Men, and the most fearsome Yule Cat haunt and prowl the night.

Dark omens. Enchanted tricksters. A battle of magic. Trixie's Moon's life is going from bad to worse. First there's the black eye, and then there's the even blacker cloud hanging over the fields over her tiny countryside cottage. A strange force rustles in the trees, and something long forgotten stirs in the shadows beneath the old bridge. When her father leaves for the weekend, Trixie's thrilled to finally get a taste of freedom. Until a series of sinister omens appear. 

Thirteen-year-old Ivy Armstrong's sick of life in Little Puddington. She's sick of the Festival of Love & Sweet Tidings, her lovestruck parents, and especially sick of the repulsive syrupy poems left on her doorstep each morning. Life's dire, but it's about to get a lot worse. The Festival of Love & Sweet Tidings opens in two days' time, and Ivy's just discovered she's about to be a part of it. 

The Night of the Christmas Letter Getters is here...It’s the most magical time of the year again. The snow is falling, the evenings are drawing in, the secret post office is open for business and the Christmas Letter Getters are out in force. Among them is Finley Stark, a small elf with big problems. He doesn’t know it yet, but there’s sinister forces at play. Soon Finley finds himself being chased through the snowy Yuletide streets of a strange old city, pursued by trolls with dark, fiendish plans. And candy in the oddest flavors...

Strange, scary rumors are flying about the tiny, snowy town below the mountains. Some say a tiger sprang loose from a circus train and roams the snowy meadows. Some say it’s a monster. But feisty Maisie Crompton knows that can’t be true. Such things never happen in their sleepy alpine village. Or do they? For soon, Maisie finds herself crossing the path of a spine-chilling legend. The Yule Cat, a fearsome mythical beast collecting snacks for his winter feast. And should Maisie fail in the cat-and-mouse hunt that follows, she might well become the next morsel on his menu.

Something terrible is haunting Dylan Wylde; an ominous figure in the woods that could ruin his life forever. Just when he thinks things can’t get worse, a strange carnival comes to town, and something dark lurks behind its bright twinkling lights. Something sinister. Something that has the ghosts of Weirdbey Island seriously spooked. Phantoms run rampant as a dastardly plot unfolds, one that will push Dylan and his friends to their limits. Can they face their deepest fears and strike back before the wicked forces plunge the island into eternal darkness?

Professor Thistlequick, also known as the "Clockwork Magician", is having the strangest day. His otherworld seeker just found a brand-new dimension, but it's stopped working, and the only way of powering it back up is by finding highly forbidden ingredients. The hunt is on! Fastening on his top hat and coat, the professor races across London, searching for a shop that doesn’t stay in the same place for very long and, soon, becomes entangled in a web of dark magic, great inventions, and terrifying plots.

Shadows fall across the city as a cold, dreary evening draws in. Jake Shillingsworth, serving boy in London's most notorious inn, The Tattered Crow, is about to discover some ghostly truths. Hidden eyes watch from empty rooms, and something lurks in the attic above Jake’s squalid room. Shuffles, scratches, and scrapes echo in the dead of night.  

It’s a cold winter’s night when Jake Shillingsworth, serving boy at The Tattered Crow, finds himself running a task for his monstrous master Silas Grumble. Jake’s errands are never fun, but this one is worse than most. This one’s for a witch... When Jake’s best friend is snatched by a terrifying creature, he’s forced to seek help from Professor Thistlequick: an eccentric man known as the "clockwork magician".

It's All Hallow's Eve and Owen Weeks is not having a good day. Something stirs in the lake by his house; the dead leaves beneath this shoes crunch like bones; even the brambles seem to twitch when he's not looking. Nothing's right. But things get a lot worse as Owen discovers a terrifying stranger hiding in an abandoned farmhouse.

Dylan Wylde has barely had time to recover from his harrowing battle with Captain Grimdire when he and his friend's find themselves caught up in a new mysterious adventure on Weirdbey Island. People are vanishing in the night, and no one wants to talk about it.... Are these sinister occurrences linked to the eerie fortuneteller who’s just arrived in town? The one gathering a horde of strange, creepy-eyed followers? Dylan and his friends soon find themselves investigating the disappearances while uncovering a cryptic mythical creature who shouldn’t exist.

When Eliza Winter finds a hidden room in her missing grandfather’s Gothic house, her world is turned upside down. Inside, below a stained glass window where moonlight shines no matter the hour, awaits The Book of Kindly Deaths, a terrifying collection of darkly sinister tales. Desperate for clues to solve her grandfather’s disappearance, Eliza opens the book of ominous, enchanted stories and discovers that nothing is what it seems, and that sometimes fairy tales are true.

Dark fairy tales. Waking legends. A magical battle for the heart of Christmas...Krampus Night is coming and even though Gabrielle Greene has only been staying in her Uncle's strange alpine city a few weeks, she's already earned the reputation of the worst girl who ever lived. She doesn't know it yet, but she's also leapt to the top of Krampus's list. Krampus, the sinister Winter King, the anti-Father Christmas who comes calling once a year seeking wicked children to haul back to his realm.