The lid gave, eventually, with surprisingly little noise. Nothing splintered. Nothing broke. No hinges flew, or even creaked, and for a second or two nothing happened at all. Then came the first scream. It blew out a candle, that scream ...'Shut the lid! For the love of God ...SHUT THE LID!' And so the box was slammed shut, hidden away, and forgotten about. But what lay within was only dormant …
Hearn had a great affinity for the traditional ghost stories of China, and these stories clearly inspired him as he penned subsequent works. Set in richly atmospheric locales, these tales speak of heroic sacrifice, chilling horror, eerie beauty and otherworldly intervention. This completely reset and pinyin-converted edition of Hearn's classic work contains a new foreword by Victoria Cass, w…
A rain forest is a very wet forest. Ran falls most of the year. Many wonderful animals live in a rain forest. In the Brazilian Amazon, bats fly through the air. Piranhas swim in the water. Army ants march in swarms and eat everything they see. Learn fun facts about rain forest from all over the world in this book.
When Pegasus crashes on to her roof, 13 year old Emily's life becomes that of legend: epic battles, desperate chases, captivating flights astride the beautiful winged-stallion, and one heroic quest to save Olympus before its Flame is extinguished . . . for ever.
Mind the gap. Something odd is going on in the basement of an old house in London. An inexplicable gap has formed, a gap in time that links the present to the past. And twelve-year-old Tom, who discovers the gap while on a visit to his grandmother, is torn between both worlds. Lured by a mysterious voice, Tom leaps into the early eighteenth century, to a time when circus “freaks” like…
The box had been sealed and hidden for hundreds of years, but what lay within it was only dormant ... waiting for the time when it would be released, and let loose upon the world. And that time was about to come ... A stunning new novel from Carnegie Medal shortlisted author, Julie Hearn