Freeze

Award-winning master of scary stories Chris Priestley returns with a spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales to chill you to the bone …

When Maya and her classmates are asked to write a creepy story with a winter theme, they come up with some brilliant ideas. Rising floodwaters uncover long-buried bodies and ghostly children take to the ice on a frozen canal. But as each of the stories is read out in class, Maya grows more and more uncomfortable. She features in each of her friends’ creepy tales and they start to feel a little too real. Finally, when a mysterious new girl stands up to read the last story of the day, the light outside dims and it starts to snow. The classroom starts to freeze but everyone is trapped. Can Maya stop the story before the nightmare comes true?

Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.

Reviews

"A fantastic horror fest for plucky youngsters who love to have their spines well and truly tingled!" – Lancashire Evening Post

"Will undoubtedly induce delighted gasps of surprise in readers who relish spine-tingling twists. With his intricate illustrations enhancing the chilling atmosphere, Priestley commands a magician’s prowess to conjure the eerily unexpected .. The set-up of interlinked narratives works a terrifying treat" – LoveReading4Kids, October Books of the Month

"Epic horror for kids regardless of reading ability … The blend of supernatural with psychological creepiness is beautiful and chilling … utterly masterful" – Lily and the Fae, blog

"[Chris Priestley] knows just how intensively to pitch the tingles and fear for his target readership" – The Letterpress Project

"This was really creepy, like really creepy. Kids that want a good creepy horror this is certainly one for you … it’s easy to read, nice and short, but packs in so much information, so many twists, so many creepy stories written with layers, a character that will boggle your mind with her creepiness." — A Paper Girl, A Paper Town, blog

About the author

Chris Priestley is the author of the critically acclaimed Tales of Terror series, the award-winning novel Mister Creecher, and in 2018, Chris won the Portsmouth Shorter Novel Award for Flesh and Blood. He is most prominently inspired by the tradition of horror stories by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley. He lives in Cambridge, where he continues to think up marvellously macabre stories, but he is also a talented artist and illustrator. He illustrates his own material and his cartoons have been published in the Independent as well as other national newspapers.