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Coming July 29, 2025 from HarperCollins!
The Haunting of Bellington Cottage
Iris can’t wait for a weeklong wintery getaway with her old friend Violet at a secluded cottage in the woods. The last time their families vacationed together, the girls bonded over their love of creepy things and turned their rental into an epic haunted house to scare the heck out of the grownups. This time, Iris has plans for them to create another haunted house even more terrifying than the last. But when Violet shows up, she’s not the same girl Iris remembers. Vee (she doesn’t go by Violet anymore) is moody and quick-tempered and seems to want nothing to do with Iris and her haunted house plans. Soon, strange things are happening that make it seem like the cottage itself is angry—doors are slamming, rooms that were perfectly neat a second ago are suddenly a disaster, and Iris hears footsteps and other mysterious noises long after everyone’s gone to sleep. Iris and Vee soon discover that the cottage has a secret history, and that there’s no need to stage a haunted house after all . . . because they’re already in one.
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WINNER of the 2024 Carolyn W. Field Award from the Pennsylvania Library Association
"Parnum’s imaginative and satisfying debut is packed with high-spirited hijinks."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Parnum’s whip-smart narrative pokes fun at its own genre with a classic middle-grade cheekiness, giving each character depth beyond their archetypes."
—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“Price Manor is perfectly mysterious. With just the right amount of chills and thrills, I was hooked from page one!”
—Lindsay Currie, author of Scritch Scratch and The Girl in White
"It's Alien in a spooky mansion. Nonstop action, tentacles, and slime. So much fun."
—J.W. Ocker, author of The Smashed Man of Dread End
“Parnum keeps the scares gentle but gooey via lively prose that conveys a vibrant setting.”
—Publishers Weekly
Peril at Price Manor
Halle Thompson is determined to someday play the Damsel in Distress in a horror movie. She takes acting lessons, practices fainting, and has the most perfect of all perfect horror movie screams—something her mom and classmates could do without. When she seizes the opportunity to deliver flowers to Price Manor, home of the famous horror movie maker who lives just outside of town, she is sure she will get her big break. Meanwhile, at Price Manor, a strange creature is attacking the household staff. The movie maker’s 12-year-old twins are sure it’s just another one of their father’s elaborate pranks. But when Halle shows up and discovers the very real horror scene, she must stop thinking like a Damsel in Distress and start thinking like a Heroine.
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S’more Spooky Stories: A National Park Anthology
Many of the U.S. national parks are huge swaths of wild and barely explored land. While it's true millions visit the parks each year, most people stay within a mile or so of the popular attractions. Not many people go into the hinterlands where maybe, just maybe, there are all kinds of monsters. It’s that wildness, that invitation to contemplate the mysteries of life, that makes the national parks so important to the health of our nation's psyche . . . as well as something to give you chills and keep you up late at night.
Join us for a collection of scary stories set in national parks, where 21 amazing authors have chosen a national park, monument, or historic site as a setting for a spooky story. Stories you can read by the campfire, that will haunt your dreams as you lie in your tent, listening to the sounds of nature in the darkness.
A collection of tales that is sure to both entertain and raise awareness of our precious national lands, so we and future generations can continue to enjoy them, including stories from Dan Wells, Fleur Bradley, Ally Malinenko, Josh Roberts, Steven Bohls, Kim Ventrella, Darcy Marks, Deke Moulton, Erin Petti, Jennifer Jenkins, Laura Parnum, Nicole Brouwer, Sarah Allen, Leigh Statham, Candice Marley Conner, Russ Colson, Adam Seable, James Francks, and Camille Leigh, with an introduction by Peter Black.