Skønlitteratur for børn og unge: gysere og spøgelseshistorier

Jeg lukker døren og smider mig oven på dynen med tøjet på. Og så eksploderer mit hoved. Alle de tanker, jeg har kæmpet for at holde tilbage de sidste timer, klistrer sig sammen til en klæbrig hjernegrød: Hvor er Rebekka lige nu? I skoven? I en garage? Hvorfor gemmer hun sig? Hvor syg er hun? Er hun bange? Hvad tænker hun, tænker hun på mig? Er det rigtigt, at hun er glad for mig? Forelsket? Til sidst er der kun fire ord tilbage. Fire skarpe ord, der vokser ud af den kvalmende flamme bag ribbenene og giver mig indre blødninger: Det er min skyld.Efter fire måneder på en ungdomspsykiatrisk afdeling vender Martin tilbage til Hommelvik. Der er meget, han ikke kan huske fra den seneste tid. Han har heller ikke talt med Rebekka. Da han finder ud af, at hun er forsvundet og hører rygterne om, at hun skulle have slået sin kusine ihjel, prøver Martin at finde hende – og opdager, at farlige mørke kræfter hjemsøger byen.Hvem er det, der trodser udgangsforbuddet og smadrer vinduet i hans værelse? Hvem er den mystiske pige, han drømmer mærkelige drømme om? Og hvorfor kan han ikke komme af med den kvalmende fornemmelse i brystet, der får ham til at glemme så mange ting?Dødens spil er en paranormal gysertrilogi i liga med de allerbedste ungdomsbøger, vi kender fra USA og England. Serien er skrevet af Anne Elvedal (f. 1973), en eftertragtet manuskriptforfatter indenfor tv og film. Hun debuterede som skønlitterær forfatter i 2020 med Dødens spil, første bind i ungdomstrilogien. Mørkets tjener er tredje og sidste bind i serien.

"Meet Anatiti: the most stubborn pharaoh in Ancient Egypt. Being chosen by the gods has given her quite an ego... after all, she knows best, not her pesky advisors. But, when tragedy strikes and she is cursed, she realises maybe they had some good advice after all. Stuck inside a tomb for thousands of years, taken by an explorer and brought to the village of Dreadbury, will this mummy finally learn to listen and head off to the afterlife?" --

Fifteen years after the Vanishing thrust Manhattan into darkness, resilient New Yorkers have adapted, but at night Rei Renolds secretly hunts Deathlings--the deadly creatures that slaughtered her parents--but she soon learns of the elite who want to keep the city's ruling class in power.

"Two gay teen BFFs find their friendship tested when a serial killer starts targeting their school's Queer Club. Dearie and Cole are inseparable, unlikeable, and (in bad luck for them) totally unbelievable. From the day they met, Dearie and Cole have been two against the world. But whenever something bad happens at Stone Grove High School, they get blamed. Why? They're beautiful, flirtatious, dangerously clever queen bees, and they're always ready to call out their fellow students. But they've never faced a bigger threat than surviving senior year, when Mr. Sandman, a famous, never-caught serial killer emerges from a long retirement -- and his hunting ground is their school Queer Club. As evidence and bodies begin piling up and suspicion points at Dearie and Cole, they will need to do whatever it takes to unmask the real killer before they and the rest of Queer Club are taken down. But they're not getting away from the killer without a fight. Along the way, they must confront dark truths hidden beneath the surface of their small desert community. When the world is stacked against them and every flop they know is a suspect, can Dearie and Cole stop Mr. Sandman's rampage? Or will their lonely nights soon be over..."--Publisher.

"Wil Greene's mom has been missing for over a year, and the police are ready to call the case closed--they claim she skipped town and you can't find a woman who wants to disappear. But she knows her mom wouldn't just leave ... and she knows the family of her former best friend, Elwood Clarke, has something to do with it. Elwood has been counting down the days until his 18th birthday--in dread. It marks leaving school and joining his pastor father in dedicating his life to their congregation, the Garden of Adam. But when he comes home after one night of after a final goodbye with his friends, already self-flagellating for the sins of drinking and disobeying his father, he discovers his path is not as virtuous as he thought. He's not his father's successor, but his sacrifice. For the woods he's grown up with are thirsty, and must be paid in blood. Now on the run from a family that wants him dead, he turns to the only one who will believe him: Wil. Together, they form a reluctant partnership; she'll help him hide if he helps her find evidence that his family killed her mother. But in the end they dig up more secrets than they bargained for, unraveling decades of dark cult dealings in their town, led by the Clarke family. And there's a reason they need Elwood's blood for their satanic rituals. Something inhuman is growing inside of him. Everywhere he goes, the plants come alive and the forest calls to him, and Wil isn't sure if she can save the boy she can't help but love"--

"Charlie Greer is nothing special--at least not compared to her adopted siblings. Her younger sister is a ghost. Her brother Mateo is a werewolf. Gideon is the product of seriously sketchy experiments that gave him telekinetic powers. Even her parents work for the Division of Extranormal Investigations tracking down all things supernatural, alien, and otherwise unusual. Charlie's mom says her superpower is maturity--which doesn't really count. But what Charlie lacks in powers she makes up for by keeping the household running. Now, with her parents off on their first vacation in years, it's up to her to take care of her siblings and make sure nothing disrupts the trip. But then the new neighbors arrive. The Weavers are a nice, normal couple. Too nice and too normal. And for some reason, they don't seem to want Charlie to see inside their house. She's certain they're hiding something. Charlie has to uncover what's going on with the Weavers and stop their plans--without letting Mom and Dad find out anything is wrong"--

It's an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award-winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare.After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn's first year away at college should be safe and easy. All she wants is to be normal again.But instead, Quinn finds that her past won't leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It's a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there's nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth--not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room.So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts alone are never going to save her. Her only option is to go back into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the record straight the only way she knows how. Because when the truth gets lost in the lies, that's when people start to die.Clown in a Cornfield was 2020's Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives is perfectly set to attract old and new fans to the series.

When a new family moves into a house in Pendle, they discover a witch's bottle filled with curses. Soon the spirits of those accused of witchcraft in the infamous Pendle Witch Trials of 1612 are released, wreaking havoc in the area. Eve, Clovis and Tom are enlisted to investigate in their latest and most challenging mission yet. Together with their mentor, Professor Rufus, they must go up against the ghosts of the Pendle witches. But the ghosts are hellbent on possessing the descendants of those who were responsible for their deadly trials. Can the ghost-hunting trio put a stop to the possessions before it's too late?

Halvvejs over vejen hørte jeg en raslen og lyden af grene der knækkede. Viggo hørte også lydene bag sig og var ved at vende sig om da en ældre kvinde trådte ud fra hækken. Det første jeg fik øje på, var hendes hænder der forrevne stak ud mellem hækkens grene. Der sad dyre ringe på hendes fingre og et guldur om håndleddet. Hun havde lange negle med dybrød neglelak ... eller var det blod?

"Vlad is a vampire with the misfortune of having rosy cheeks that--gasp!--make him look abysmally alive. But being the fabulous vampire that he is (and hoping to avoid rejection), he hides his rosy complexion behind elaborate vampire outfits in traditional black. That is, until he finds out that his best friend has a pink secret of her own"--]cProvided by publisher.

On the planet Eden, on the Vulpen Island of Crescent, Arthur Avalyn and his family plot a secret war against Godfather Adam and his hellish forces. Meanwhile and far away in the land of Nod, Lilith plots her revenge. When angels and demons gamble with human souls, and the fate of destiny itself is at stake, who will win, who will survive, and at what cost?

MAN KAN IKKE UNDSLIPPE ØRKENEN. MAN KAN IKKE UNDSLIPPE SUNDIAL. ”SUNDIAL” er en gribende roman om de hemmeligheder, vi begraver for dem, vi elsker allermest. Det er en psykologisk thriller fortalt af to upålidelige fortællere med så mange plottwists, at du sidder på det yderste af stolen og venter på at mysteriet bliver opklaret. Det eneste Rob ønskede var et normalt liv. Hun fik det også næsten: en mand, to børn og et dejligt hus i forstæderne. Men Rob er bekymret for døtrene, navnlig sin ældste datter, Callie, som samler på små knogler og hvisker til sine fantasivenner. Rob ser et mørke i Callie, som minder hende om den familie, hun forlod. Hun beslutter at tage Callie med tilbage til barndomshjemmet, til Sundial, langt ude i Mojaveørkenen. Dér skal hun træffe et frygteligt valg. Callie er bange for sin mor. Rob er begyndt at se så mærkeligt på hende. At fortælle hende hemmeligheder fra fortiden, som både skræmmer og opløfter. Callie begynder at spekulere på hvor galt det kan gå … Mor og datter begiver sig ud på en mørk ørkenrejse til fortiden i håbet om at redde deres fremtid. ”Hvis du er thrillerfan, krimifan eller horrorfan SKAL DU LÆSE DEN HER. Ægte skræmmende!” – Stephen King CATRIONA WARD er født i Washington, D.C., og voksede op i USA, Kenya, Madagaskar, Yemen og Marokko. Catriona vandt August Derleth-prisen for bedste horror-roman i 2016 for sin debut, Rawblood, og igen i 2018 for Little Eve, hvilket gjorde hende til den første kvinde, der fik prisen to gange. Little Eve vandt også den ansete Shirley Jackson Award for bedste roman og var på The Guardians liste over bedste bøger i 2018. Last House on Needless Street (udkommer på dansk i 2023) blev fremhævet i Richard & Judy Book Club, kom på bestsellerlisten i The Times og på Kindle, blev årets thriller i både The Times og The Observer og vandt August Derleth-prisen for bedste horror-roman i 2022. Sundial var bl.a. på Apple Books liste over ”Best Books of 2022” og toppede Kindle listerne i flere lande.Pressen og kollegerne skrev: ”En psykologisk thriller af højeste kvalitet, absolut på niveau med de fleste litterære romaner.” – The Times ”Du godeste, hvor Sundial kulegraver de psykologiske dybder og fælder i et toksisk forhold. Bogen er en fremragende blanding af spænding, chok og ildevarslende stemning. Det er en vild, grotesk gotisk familiesaga, der ikke minder om noget andet og er umulig at glemme.” – Paul Tremblay, forfatter (A Head Full of Ghosts og The Pallbearers' Club)

Some dreams are meant to stay dead.When the zombies came, they destroyed everything. They took everything, including the dreams Winchester had been finding himself in for years. It wasn't until now, a decade after the invasion happened, that he finally decided to start drawing again.Creating art in the best of times is hard but crafting art during the zombie apocalypse feels nearly impossible.Winchester needs something to give him enough hope that he can start creating again.And he needs the dead to stay dead.Author's note: this is the second book in the Beautifully Undead series and should be read in order. This series features LGBTQ+ characters.

This fast-paced YA horror novel perfect for fans of Stranger Things throws together two former friends when their long-missing best friend suddenly reappears-five years after his disappearance, but the same age as the day he vanished.

Ghosts make the best thieves in this pitch-perfect middle grade adventure from the acclaimed author of Weird Kid. Perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and John David Anderson--and anyone looking for an Ocean's 11-style heist!Zenith and her friends may be dead--but lucky for them, even getting ghosted wasn't enough to tear them apart.The four of them were thick as thieves long before an unfortunate lab accident sent them careening into the afterlife. So when they hear about a machine that could return them to the land of the living, they are determined to steal it.Unfortunately, the magical device belongs to a dangerous necromancer who's out for their ectoplasm.Fortunately, they're great at heists. Because pulling off the score of their deathtimes is no job for an amateur.

Cemetery Boys meets Legendborn in this thrillingly romantic, irresistibly fun YA contemporary fantasy debut following a teenage Chinese American ghost speaker who (reluctantly) makes a deal to raise her nemesis from the dead.Cara Tang doesn't want to be haunted.Look, the dead have issues, and Cara has enough of her own. Her overbearing mother insists she be the "perfect" Chinese American daughter--which means suppressing her ghost-speaking powers--and she keeps getting into fights with Zacharias Coleson, the local golden boy whose smirk makes her want to set things on fire.Then she stumbles across Zach's dead body in the woods. He's even more infuriating as a ghost, but Cara's the only one who can see him--and save him.Agreeing to resurrect him puts her at odds with her mother, draws her into a dangerous liminal world of monsters and magic--and worse, leaves her stuck with Zach. Yet as she and Zach grow closer, forced to depend on each other to survive, Cara finds the most terrifying thing is that she might not hate him so much after all.Maybe this is why her mother warned her about ghosts.Delightful and compulsively readable, this contemporary fantasy has something for every reader: a snarky voice, a magnetic enemies-to-lovers romance, and a spirited adventure through a magical, unpredictable world hidden within our own.