Young Teen Short Stories

Something stirs beneath the ice-locked tundra of Snowdonia National Park. An ancient force of unspeakable evil scrabbles at the boundaries between worlds. Its servants creep from sunless caverns and crave the taste of warm human flesh. Ithaqua summons his children home. A new age approaches. Gibbering monsters and nameless horrors await, and a blend of man and beast is needed to show the Great Old Ones the way. Dwellers in the deep. Fields of quivering flesh.

Edgar Allan Poe, American poet and master of the horror tale, is also credited by many with inventing the American mystery story. "The Gold Bug" is one of his most famous stories. It was first published in the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper in June 1843, after Poe had won a competition held by the paper and received a prize of $100.

Rebellious teenager Allyson has broken the rules one time too many, and her mother sends her to stay with her cousins in New Mexico. The LeFebres' highly religious, conservative, rural lifestyle is shocking to Allyson, and one of their strangest superstitions is a belief in a local boogeyman called the Bice. But it's only a superstition, right?

A phantom haunts The Pole-Star, a whaling ship stranded in the north Atlantic ice, as the ship's captain slips into madness....

Wilting is a short story about a man named Michael. After being accused of murdering his family, Michael was committed to Shriekville Asylum to live out the rest of his days alone. A year passed, and Michael encountered another patient named William. After losing a simple card game, Michael agrees to teach William the ropes to survive the unethical treatment of the asylum in hopes that they escape back to their lives on the outside.

The Five Orange Pips, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the fifth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in November 1891. Conan Doyle later ranked the story seventh in a list of his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.

Do you love scary stories? This is an anthology of short scary stories just for you. Perfect for listening to alone in the dark or with friends around the campfire. In this audiobook, you will find sixteen entertaining bone-chilling tales. These are fun, scary stories with surprising twists and turns along the way. It provides hours of interesting, creepy storytelling for brave souls.

Nicholas, Kevin. Age 19. Died at York Hospital, July 19, 2012. Kev's the first kid their age to die. And now, even though he's dead, he's not really gone. Even now his choices are touching the people he left behind. Rita Williams-Garcia follows one aimless teen as he finds a new life in his new job - at the mortuary. Ellen Hopkins reveals what two altar boys (and one altar girl) might get up to at the cemetery at night.

In this companion story to Numbers Game, Chan Norwell comes from the perfect citizen family. His mother is chief of the city monitor force, his brother an all-star, and his sister a prodigy - which leaves little wiggle room for a nobody like Chan. He is determined to have his time in the spotlight at last. But he doesn't expect things to go so horribly wrong. Alone, dishonored, and humiliated, Chan can only see one way out.

In a time when a pandemic is threatening the entire population, Risa and her family apply for coveted acceptance into a new Safe City - a place designed to keep the virus out and to preserve a select few of the population. But getting accepted into the city may not be worth it - especially when she is sedated for secure transport and wakes up, unable to find her family. Meeting a few new friends and an intriguing soldier named Camsen Luck may help, but none of them can convince her that self-preservation is more important than finding her family; or that trying to escape is suicide.

Alisha’s Eccentric Escapades is not just a compilation of tales; it's a narrative that prompts us to reconsider our perceptions and understanding of the world around us. So, buckle up and prepare for a laughter-filled, educational journey as we collectively strive towards fostering a more balanced and equitable world. Remember, just like laughter, the genesis of change starts with you.

Letlæste noveller for unge - en samling på seks vedkommende historier om "de stille drenge", skrevet med Kim Fupz' fantastiske evne til helt ukompliceret at skildre komplekse mellemmenneskelige relationer. "Tilløb" skildrer de tilbageholdne drenge, der tilpasser sig forældre, venner og piger. Indtil det er nok. Indtil noget nyt må ske. "Jeg skubbede ham med alt, hvad jeg havde, og han gik lige på røven, virkelig dumt på røven. Han sad på køkkengulvet, og jeg stod op ad væggen. Den havde han fandeme ikke regnet med." – Citat fra bogen.

I need answers only my father can provide. Separated from birth, we’ve only recently connected. Still, I have no one else to turn to. The Deltites are hunting me and they’re close now. We’ll fight our final battle soon. Needing more information, I force him to tell me a story about the beginning, my beginning. He sheds new light on my mom, on my grandfather Sicheii, and on how I started down this path. He spins a tale about love, a recent murder, and mysterious strangers who come to town looking for a medicine man, my grandfather.

Several children have put pen to paper and taken part in the very first Shenanigans’ Children’s Anthology: Aspiring Dreams. In this audiobook, you will find the brilliant imaginations of those children, who are aged between 10 and 15 years old. Topics range from a time traveler to dealing with bullying at school.

Here is a charming Christmas tale about a young woman staying with her aunt in rural New England. When Sophie invites her high-society friends to visit her and Aunt Pemy, they quickly - and much to their delight - discover that there's much more to country life than they had ever imagined.

Arriving in the rural Catskill Mountains (where legend has it there resides a spectral headless horseman who hunts the night on a black steed), the eccentric Ichabod Crane vies for the love of the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel. The bully, Brom Bones, also has his eyes on Katrina and devises a wicked plan to rid himself of his hated rival.

"Alt hvad der står i min magt" er fem realistiske noveller for unge om styrkeprøver og kærlige kræfter mellem mennesker - alt det gode og knap så gode, vi besidder magten til at gøre ved hinanden. Novellerne zoomer bl.a. ind på temaer som hævnporno, angst, gruppepres, familierelationer og alvorlig sygdom. Camilla Wandahl og Caroline Ørsum har tidligere skrevet den anmelderroste ungdomsroman "Venus Fluefanger" sammen.

This short story is one of those things that literally took a village to accomplish. From bouncing around ideas to coming up with the characters to listening to me ramble on and on and on about it. In itself, it is a fun little piece that the author fell in love with while trying to flesh out a few of the main characters of his fLUX Runners series.

Siete relatos que dejan marcas. Tal como la vida que a veces se comporta como el viento y entonces trae aires de amor, o aires llenos de desengaño, aires que con su paso nos transforman. Relatos introspectivos de delicada poética. Cuentos sensibles que impactan en el lector y seguramente lo transforman. Relatos de temáticas diversas, pero cohesionados por un lenguaje preciso, emotivo y delicado.

"Über den Schattenwolf macht man keine Witze, Lena. Er ist stärker als jeder einzelne von uns." Seit Finns und Lenas kurzer Flucht hat sich alles verändert. Viktor ist fort. Die Fel sind unauffindbar und der neue Rudelführer der Can herrscht mit harter Hand. Lena erkennt das Camp und ihre Freunde nicht wieder, die dem Schattenwolf huldigen, wie einem Gott. Sie spürt selbst, dass sie sich seinem Einfluss nicht entziehen kann. Von einem seltsamen Drang geweckt, schleicht sie sich nachts aus der Hütte und folgt dem Ruf des Rudels.