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Three terrifying short stories by Anthony Horowitz, a master-storyteller and the best-selling author of the Alex Rider series.
It's Hallowe'en, but the living dead on the Night Bus aren't trick or treaters. And when Nick and Jeremy get on board, it looks like the bus is not going to be taking them home . . .
When his dad picks up a hitchhiker, Jacob find himself in a life or death situation. Could the hitcher be on the run from the nearby Maximum Security Unit? For sure, someone in the car has a deadly secret . . .
Who is the man with the damaged yellow face in the middle photo in Peter's strip of passport photos - because it can't be him, can it? Is is a ghost, or something more sinister?
It's Hallowe'en, but the living dead on the Night Bus aren't trick or treaters. And when Nick and Jeremy get on board, it looks like the bus is not going to be taking them home . . .
When his dad picks up a hitchhiker, Jacob find himself in a life or death situation. Could the hitcher be on the run from the nearby Maximum Security Unit? For sure, someone in the car has a deadly secret . . .
Who is the man with the damaged yellow face in the middle photo in Peter's strip of passport photos - because it can't be him, can it? Is is a ghost, or something more sinister?
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Anthony Horowitz is a hugely successful author and television screenwriter. His best-selling books include the Alex Rider series, the most recent title of which, Smokescreen, went to No 1. His television credits include screen writing for Midsomer Murders and Poirot and he is the creator and author of Foyle's War. He has two grown up sons, and lives in east London with his wife.
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Best Book of the Divided Two Horowitz Horror Anthologies
31 July 2008
Format:Paperback
In 2008 Horowitz's publishers decided to republish his old 1999 Horror anthologies Horowitz Horror: Stories You'll Wish You Never Read and Horowitz Horror 2 (also published under the title More Horowitz Horror). But instead of just reproducing those two volumes in their entirety they chose to divide them up into six separately sold smaller books containing usually two (but sometimes three, as is the case with this one, short stories). To annoy those who maybe have one of the anthologies already they decided that these new smaller books would take one story from Horowitz Horror 1 and the other from Horowitz Horror 2. Obviously there's two from one and one from the other here. So if you plan on reading all these books it's obviously much better value for money to buy the two anthologies than all these books separately.
Anyway back to reviewing The Night Bus. The three stories in this book are obviously the title story The Night Bus as well as The Hitchhiker and The Man With the Yellow Face. These three, especially the last two are up with the best stories taken from the two larger anthologies.
The first involves a 17 year old boy and his younger brother who get left at a party by their friend down the roads absent minded mother so have to try and get home from central London to Richmond all by themselves. They don't have much money and keep missing the tube stations but ultimately spot a night bus with Richmond as its destination. The bus is really old fashioned and it only once aboard that they notice the lights are all out and no one else is onboard. Suddenly the lights are on and the bus is underway which is weird as they did not see anyone board. The conductor asks them for a shilling for the fare, they only have modern currency. As more and more people get on it becomes obvious the bus isn't intended for two boys of their kind (alive).
The Hitchhiker has a family travelling home from visiting a seaside town when they notice a hitchhiker. The father stops much to the pleas not to from the wife and Jacob the son. The hiker is a bit of weirdo and mouths to Jacob that's he's dead. The hiker tells the father his name is Rellik, which Jacob quickly realises is Killer spelt backwards. Jacob knows there's a good reason you don't pick up hitchhikers when The East Suffolk Maximum Security Prison for the Criminally Insane is just down the road. Can he warn his parents before they are all end up dead?
The Man With the Yellow Face has Peter travelling with his grandparents on a bit of holiday up to York as his parents are getting divorced and his father was moving out that weekend. He's got a bit of his spending money left so decides to have some fun and take a few photographs at an instant photomachine at the end of the platform while they await their train to London's arrival. When they are developed instead of the third photograph being of himself, there is an ugly man instead. Peter at first assumes it must be the person before him's photograph, but wait a minute! Then wouldn't it have been the first photo?
If you've only read the Groosham Grange series this series of books is a little bit heavier in subject matter. Groosham Grange and its sequel The Unholy Grail are a bit more cartoony monster horror style than these more realistic thriller scare stories.
Anyway back to reviewing The Night Bus. The three stories in this book are obviously the title story The Night Bus as well as The Hitchhiker and The Man With the Yellow Face. These three, especially the last two are up with the best stories taken from the two larger anthologies.
The first involves a 17 year old boy and his younger brother who get left at a party by their friend down the roads absent minded mother so have to try and get home from central London to Richmond all by themselves. They don't have much money and keep missing the tube stations but ultimately spot a night bus with Richmond as its destination. The bus is really old fashioned and it only once aboard that they notice the lights are all out and no one else is onboard. Suddenly the lights are on and the bus is underway which is weird as they did not see anyone board. The conductor asks them for a shilling for the fare, they only have modern currency. As more and more people get on it becomes obvious the bus isn't intended for two boys of their kind (alive).
The Hitchhiker has a family travelling home from visiting a seaside town when they notice a hitchhiker. The father stops much to the pleas not to from the wife and Jacob the son. The hiker is a bit of weirdo and mouths to Jacob that's he's dead. The hiker tells the father his name is Rellik, which Jacob quickly realises is Killer spelt backwards. Jacob knows there's a good reason you don't pick up hitchhikers when The East Suffolk Maximum Security Prison for the Criminally Insane is just down the road. Can he warn his parents before they are all end up dead?
The Man With the Yellow Face has Peter travelling with his grandparents on a bit of holiday up to York as his parents are getting divorced and his father was moving out that weekend. He's got a bit of his spending money left so decides to have some fun and take a few photographs at an instant photomachine at the end of the platform while they await their train to London's arrival. When they are developed instead of the third photograph being of himself, there is an ugly man instead. Peter at first assumes it must be the person before him's photograph, but wait a minute! Then wouldn't it have been the first photo?
If you've only read the Groosham Grange series this series of books is a little bit heavier in subject matter. Groosham Grange and its sequel The Unholy Grail are a bit more cartoony monster horror style than these more realistic thriller scare stories.
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