The Fate of Finnegan Quick
By (Author) Larry Hayes
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
6th January 2026
11th September 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories
Dreams and their interpretation
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
A new nightmare.
A deadly premonition.
After a horrifying vision of the future, Finnegan Quick must fix his fate before it finally catches up to him. A pulse-pounding horror story by Laugh Out Loud Book Award winner Larry Hayes.
By night, Finnegan Quick has horrible nightmares. By day, they come TRUE. Unfortunately for him, after dreaming his parents out of reality, his nightmares are the only hope he has of one day finding them again.
To discover the truth of his parents disappearance, Finn investigates the paranormal with his best friends, Squid and Cass. Their only lead is a mysterious urban legend about a girl in Ireland whose body remained perfect, even after death. Rumour is, she was a banshee a terrifying creature with the power of prophecy - whose unearthly scream, it was said, could drive anyone who heard it to instant madness.
That very night, Finn finds out why. In his dreams, he finds the banshee. He hears her scream and with it, sees a vision of the future.
Squid. His best friend. Face down in water, dead.
In the waking world, Finn is left with no choice: unravel the mystery of the Banshees curse, or risk losing the only family he has left
A creepy, page-turning read for horror fans everywhere. Scares GUARANTEED.
I absolutely loved this book! Genuinely chilling and a little bit gory ... such a fun read * Jennifer Killick, author of Crater Lake on The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick *
The scary, gross-out kid's adventure of your dreams. Don't sleep on this one. * Trevor Henderson, creator of Siren Head and author of Scarewaves on The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick *
Stuffed full of awesome adventure and superior supernatural chills * Keith Gray, author of The Climbers and Creepers on The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick *
Larry Hayes is afraid of zombies in lifts, vampires in rocking chairs and baby crocodiles in toilets. He is no longer afraid of the dark, changing a nappy in a moving vehicle, or death. He is the author of the How to Survive series, the latest of which, How to Survive Time Travel, won the 9 - 12 category Laugh Out Loud Book Award. When hes not writing childrens books, Larry works in finance, helps run a homeless charity and is the governor of a primary school federation.