Fear Files: A Trick of the Light

Name: Fear Files: A Trick of the Light
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SKU: 9781761605369
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A spooky school trip story by the author of ESCAPE ROOM, for readers aged 9-12

By Christopher Edge

Series: Fear Files

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A school trip turns spooky in this spine-tingling adventure from award-winning author Christopher Edge, perfect for 9+ fans of Goosebumps. Feeling ignored by her friends on a school residential trip at a creepy old manor house, ten-year-old Hazel meets a girl called Alice from another school,... Read More

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A school trip turns spooky in this spine-tingling adventure from award-winning author Christopher Edge, perfect for 9+ fans of Goosebumps.

Feeling ignored by her friends on a school residential trip at a creepy old manor house, ten-year-old Hazel meets a girl called Alice from another school, who is also on residential and feeling a bit lonely. Together they hatch a plan to get their own back, inventing a legend about a resident ghost who haunts the house to fool their friends. But as the spooky games and tricks they plan become a little too scary, Hazel starts to wonder if Alice is pushing things too far…

Packed with mysterious found material and illustrations.

Christopher Edge is the author of the global sensation, Escape Room.

Praise for the series:

"A short, sharp novella, all the better to lure in readers with 2025 attention spans ... creepy, fast-paced, high stakes." The Observer

"I ran out of fingernails to bite long before the end!" Jonathan Stroud

"A perfect shot of horror for young readers." Jennifer Killick

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Coming to find you, ready or not! The first title in a brand new middle-grade horror series by the bestselling author Christopher Edge. Goosebumps for a new generation of readers. Nobody knows who started the Darkive. It's a database filled with first-hand accounts of strange, unexplained experiences. Ghosts; paranormal entities; weird anomalies. Each one is stored with a bank of...

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Fear Files: A Trick of the Light

A school trip turns spooky in this spine-tingling adventure from award-winning author Christopher Edge, perfect for 9+ fans of Goosebumps. Feeling ignored by her friends on a school residential trip at a creepy old manor house, ten-year-old Hazel meets a girl called Alice from another school, who is also on residential and feeling a bit lonely. Together they hatch a...

By Christopher Edge

Paperback

$18⁹⁹

Available
Ships in 4-6 weeks

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761605369

Publisher: Walker Books Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Walker Books Australia

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 146g

Pages: 160

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Christopher Edge Series: Fear Files Young Adult Young Adult Mystery & Thriller

About the Author

Christopher Edge is an award-winning children's author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. As well as the Fear Files series, his novels include The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day, which won the STEAM Children’s Book Prize, and Escape Room, the #1 Amazon bestseller. Described by The Guardian as "a writer of genuine originality" and by The Times as "the coolest science teacher you probably never had", Christopher grew up in Manchester but now lives in Gloucestershire, close to his local library. Find out more about Christopher at christopheredge.co.uk and follow him on X as @EdgeChristopher and on Instagram as @ChristopherEdge.

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