Books with title The Deadly 7

Damien Graves has spent many years searching for the most spine-chilling stories in existence. Here are three more of his most terrible tales.Adam and David go canoeing. Trouble awaits them in the water. The hungry kind of trouble.Katie screams when she sees a mouse. And another one. And another one. And another one.Kelly pursues a dream role in the school play. Offstage, her life is becoming a nightmare.Don't panic. On second thought, do panic. Welcome to The Midnight Library.

Lazarus Stone is about to turn sixteen when, one night, his normal life is ripped to shreds by a skinless figure drenched in blood. He has a message: The Dead are coming. Now Lazarus is all that stands in their way. To fulfill his destiny, he must confront not only the dark past of his family, but horrors more gruesome than even Hell could invent. And it all begins with the reek of rotting flesh ...

Penny's parents are hoping that a Greek vacation is just what the doctor ordered for her. She's not getting along at all with her older brother, and she's so unhappy that she dreads going home - she mopes around and, more importantly, doesn't eat.Since her mother studied the Classics in university and her father's mother was from Crete, Penny's parents decide to bring her to Greece on a special vacation - without her brother. Penny's finally learning to relax and enjoy herself her a bit when her parents take her on a tour of the ancient Minoan Palace at Knossos - home of the fabled labyrinth of the Minotaur - but then something strange happens. Penny inexplicable finds herself imitating the beginning gymnastic vault - as the tourists disappear and a crowd cheers fiercely and the dust flies in the bright sunshine and a huge bull charges toward her....And then she's back, shaken, with her parents and the other tourists, and she remembers a mural she saw earlier: the one of the bull dancers, the acrobats of the bull games, the fearless ones who dodge and leap the razor-sharp horns of bulls. The vacation continues, but Penny finds herself drawn back to the Minoan Place and its fascinating labyrinth. This time she completes her involuntary somersault and finds herself again in the arena, with the frenzied crowd surrounding her and the dust flying as a huge white bull paws the ground in front of her and its horns glint in the sun.Set evocatively in the beauty of Greece and drawing on the mythology that country is so famous for, Taylor spins a rollicking story centred on "the deadly dance," the ancient tradition that sees young people defying death to dance with furious bulls - all for the amusement of others.

Who needs friends when you've got monsters? Everything was happening so fast, and it was all so...mad. It was as if someone had taken reality, made it into a jigsaw, thrown the jigsaw onto the floor and then said, 'Now, hurry up and put it all together!' as they danced all over the jigsaw pieces in a clown suit, blowing a trumpet. When Nelson's beloved big sister goes missing on a school trip, Nelson is devastated - he's not that good at making friends, and his sister is the only person he can talk to. His parents join the search party and leave Nelson in the care of his mad uncle Pogo. Uncle Pogo is the caretaker of St Paul's Cathedral, and it is here that Nelson stumbles across a machine, invented by Christopher Wren and buried for hundreds of years. Designed to extract the seven deadly sins, the machine has a fault - once extracted, the sins become living, breathing monsters who will then follow the sinner around for eternity (unless they eat him first, in the case of the particularly sinful). Nelson accidentally extracts seven deadly monsters from his own little soul. Ugly, cantankerous, smelly and often the cause of much embarrassment, Nelson's monsters are the last thing he needs in his life, but at least they're fairly harmless (he's a pretty good kid on the whole). When he learns of their individual powers, he realises the monsters can be put to good use, and together Nelson and the deadly seven set out on a quest across the globe to find and rescue his big sister. Somewhere along the way, Nelson realises that he finally has friends, even if they are smelly, lazy friends who like smashing stuff up. The Deadly 7 is a monster adventure by successful director Garth Jennings.