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Read, Scream, Repeat brings together thirteen bestselling, award-winning authors: Kirsty Applebaum, Jasbinder Bilan, Aisha Bushby, Joseph Coelho, Rachel Delahaye, Kat Ellis, Phil Hickes, Polly Ho-Yen, Sharna Jackson, Jennifer Killick, Elle McNicoll, Dan Smith and J.T.Williams. The collection is curated by Farshore’s queen of middle-grade comedy-horror, Jennifer Killick! Read, Scream, Repeat is a truly diverse anthology that taps into everything young listeners are looking for this spooky season.

Aveline Jones loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when she discovers a spooky old book. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it once belonged to Primrose Penberthy...who vanished mysteriously, never to be seen again. Intrigued, Aveline decides to investigate Primrose's disappearance. But now someone - or something - is stirring. And it is looking for Aveline.

Aveline is thrilled when she discovers that the holiday cottage her mum has rented for the summer is beside a stone circle. Thousands of years old, the local villagers refer to the ancient structure as the Witch Stones, and Aveline cannot wait to learn more about them. Then Aveline meets Hazel: impossibly cool, mysterious yet friendly. Aveline soon falls under her spell. In fact, she is quite unlike anyone Aveline has ever met before - but she can't work out why. Will Aveline discover the truth about Hazel before it's too late?

Aveline is determined to discover the truth behind her Uncle Rowan's mysterious disappearance when she travels to his home with Mum and Aunt Lilian. After years of hoping he would return, they have finally decided to sell his house - but Aveline and Harold have other plans. Sneaking into Rowan's study, Aveline discovers he had been researching possible supernatural activity around an ancient burial mound - and linked this with the unexplained disappearances of other local villagers. Dark, magical forces are at work, and they'll do anything to remain hidden.

Aveline viaja a Malmouth para quedarse unos días con su tía, y aunque el viaje no le emociona del todo, este pueblo costero parece ser el escenario perfecto para lo que más le gusta: leer relatos de fantasmas. En ese lugar los días son grises, fríos y arrastran consigo el aire del mar y sus aterradoras leyendas.

After two young children died there in a fire a hundred years ago, the McBride House has taken on a kind of macabre, legendary status in the small town of Column Falls, Orgeon. In search of thrills on Halloween, Cody persuades his friends Duri and Sean that, instead of trick or treating, this year they will head into the woods to hunt down the ruins, but they have no idea of the danger that awaits them. When they find the McBride House, it appears at first that someone else has got there before them and is trying to scare them.