The Last Day of October

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Bored with trick-or-treating, three friends venture into the woods on Halloween night to hunt for the haunted McBride house in this spine-tingling horror story from Phil Hickes.

After two young children died there in a fire a hundred years ago, the McBride House has taken on a kind of macabre, legendary status in the small town of Column Falls, Orgeon. In search of thrills on Halloween, Cody persuades his friends Duri and Sean that, instead of trick or treating, this year they will head into the woods to hunt down the ruins, but they have no idea of the danger that awaits them. When they find the McBride House, it appears at first that someone else has got there before them and is trying to scare them.

But the truth of what is happening on this eerie Halloween night is more terrifying than the three teenagers could ever have imagined

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

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"Nobody does spooky stories better than Phil Hickes I love it when horror stories for young readers arent afraid to be proper scary." Dan Smith

Author Bio

Born in the UK, Phil now lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he works as an advertising copywriter. He has a passion for horror, ghosts, and all things that go bump in the night. His short stories have been published in adult horror anthologies, but Phil turned his hand to writing middle grade as he wanted to create the same visceral thrill he remembers from reading Alan Garner, Clive King and Roald Dahl. The Haunting of Aveline Jones is his first middle grade novel.