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Books for Older Children and Teenagers |
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Short Stories: Fantasy, Fiction and Horror |
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Teenage and young adult Reality can more astounding than fantasy, and often unfurls a mysterious tendril to draw in the unsuspecting person. Encounters with troglodytes in a crypt, fluorescent honey and the house that goes to the ultimate extreme to get rid of its inhabitants, can happen. |
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Short Stories, Sinister Tales for Teens |
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Teenage and young adult Don't look now because the clown from Hell is right behind you, the smog is melting people away into another dimension, and monsters roam the golf course. Your friendly, helpful smartphone could be the portal to Purgatory and that mysterious toyshop holds a secret to turn the toughest teenage mind. Not suitable for younger children. |
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The Glee Machine |
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12 plus, 20,000 words The Glee Machine can conjure up every fantastic world you could want to visit. It also conjures up murderous gargoyles that want to suck your mind dry. |
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Different Dragons |
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8 plus, 15,600 words Everyone
has dragons. |
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Mid teens, 28,750 words |
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There
is a strange glow in Penny’s greenhouse. |
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The Kybion |
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Teenagers & Adults (text only) 52, 000 words |
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First published as The Watcher by The Women's Press (UK) |
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The planet Ojal
has been invaded. A mysterious vampire force has almost sucked dry the
energy pools on which the Ojalie depend. Controller Opu is charged with
finding a solution. Breaking Galactic law and coping with severe childcare
problems, her search ultimately leads to Earth where the characters
involved are not all what they seem. There is an unnervingly independent
student, two sinister spiritualists, a bullet-proof black policeman,
and a youthful watcher apparently over a hundred years old.
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15,000 words |
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Tales
about sticky confectionary, talking fish, restless gargoyles, mysterious
magical eggs in the depths of space, a reasonable giant rat, worlds
made with words and worlds drowned in rivers of chocolate… (Some
suitable for adults as well.) |
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