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Light the candles and shut the door, The Wrong Train is a deliciously creepy and scarily good collection of scary stories, complete with terrifying illustrations from Dave Shelton. Perfect for fans of Patrick Ness, R.L. Stine, and Emily Carroll.Imagine you''ve just managed to catch your train and you realize it''s the wrong one. You''d be annoyed of course, but not scared . . . Yet.Imagine you get off the wrong train at the next station hoping to catch one back the way you came. But the station is empty. Again, you''d be annoyed, but not scared . . . Yet.Imagine someone comes to the station, a stranger who starts to tell you stories to help pass the time. But these aren''t any old stories--they''re nightmares that come with a price to pay. And you want them to stop. Scared yet? You will be.

What good is a toy that will wind down? What if you could give a toy a heart? A real heart. One that beat and beat and didn''t stop. What couldn''t you do if you could make a toy like that? From the moment that the circus boy, Mathias, takes a small roll of paper from the dying conjuror, his fate is sealed. For on it is the key to a terrifying secret, and there are those who would kill him rather than have it told. Pursued by the sinister Dr. Leiter with his exquisite doll and malevolent dwarf, preyed on by the circus master and his vicious painted wife, Mathias is drawn into a relentless nightmare. A nightmare that will lead him to the Toymaker, and to a knife as cruel as frost. A relentlessly dark and sinister tale of a young boy''s living nightmare, this debut novel will send shivers down your spine and will haunt you long after the final page. With the atmosphere of Philip Pullman''s I Was a Rat!, this is a brilliantly frightening tale from an exciting new literary talent.

Tras darse cuenta de que va en el tren equivocado, un niño que viaja solo decide bajar en la siguiente parada. Mientras espera el tren que lo llevará de vuelta a casa, escucha ocho cuentos que le relata un misterioso anciano acompañado de un perro. La lúgubre y solitaria estación sirve de marco para las escalofriantes historias que el viejo narra y que dejarán al niño en una encrucijada, de la cual deberá buscar la salida.

In a German town, long ago, lives a toothpuller''s boy called Klaus. It isn''t Klaus''s fault that he sees his master steal a diamond from the mouth of a dead man in Frau Drecht''s lodging house, or that Frau Drecht and her murderous son want it for themselves. He has nothing to do with the Jesuit priest and his Aztec companion who turn up out of the blue looking for it, or the Professor of Anatomy who takes such a strange interest in it. No, Klaus doesn''t want any trouble. But when he finds himself with the diamond in his pocket, things really can''t get much worse - that is, until the feathered man appears. Then they become a matter of life . . . and death.

Der 11-jährige Mathias, der mit seinem Grossvater bei einem heruntergekommenen Wanderzirkus lebt, wird durch dessen plötzlichen Tod in ein tödliches Geheimnis verwickelt. Was hat Dr. Häller, der unvermutet auftaucht und Mathias mitnimmt, mit seinem Grossvater zu tun? Ab 12.