Annie Graves: 18 books

Dervla is the babysitter from hell – literally. She's very strict, she eats spiders, and ... are those horns? No wonder Becky is everybody's hero when she manages to rid the neighbourhood of the demon babysitter. Don't ask how, but hey, pssst, there are vomit-coloured stink bombs, there is an abandoned...

So what is the most innocent, least spooky thing you can imagine? An egg, right? Right. It’s perfectly smooth all over. It’s totally natural. It can’t talk. It can’t put a curse on you. It doesn’t have a soul so it can’t haunt you. Hah! Wrong! How about an egg that just won’t go away....

Did you ever hear that telling a nightmare makes it fade away? It doesn’t. Not here anyway. Welcome to the Nightmare Club’s Halloween Sleepover. You might not last till morning. No one really understood Abbey, except for Bee. A new friend, right in her own house, just on the other side of the mirror. What could possibly go wrong?

Alex gets taken to the doctor more often that Alex likes. Dr White takes an awful lot of blood samples - so greedy is he for blood that he uses a double syringe and he sends great big bottles of if to the 'lab'. This makes Alex suspicious - and sure enough, the blood 'samples' are not going to a lab...