William Heaney is a man well acquainted with demons. Not his broken family - his wife has left him for a celebrity chef, his snobbish teenaged son despises him, and his daughter's new boyfriend resembles Nosferatu - nor his drinking problem, nor his unfulfilling government job, but real demons.
From the chaos of coats-down park soccer mobs to the casual violence of pub teams, from the excitement of schoolboy shield winners to knackered old World Cup squads, this memoir shows how it's the goalie who always gets it in the neck.
William Heaney is a man well acquainted with demons. Not his broken family - nor his drinking problem, nor his unfulfilling government job, but real demons! William Heaney's life is thrown into a direction he does not fully comprehend. To weather the changes, William Heaney must learn one thing: how to make friends with demons.
Sophie and James' paths don't cross. Why would they? She's from rough Abbey South School and he's your typical Castle Gate posh geek. They have nothing in common. Or so they thought. For the truth is that they both share a dangerous gift: they are savants. They are innately sensitive to the presence of ghosts and spirits.
Since the joyriding accident, 15-year-old Matt Norris's life has been hell. His brother, Jake, is dead, and Jake's girlfriend, Joolz, has been hideously scarred. Only Matt escaped the car crash unscathed. Or so it seems. Because now Jake is back, haunting Matt's every step, appearing out of thin air dressed in outrageous costumes. What does he want? Why does Joolz remember the accident ...
Mike Mignola's award-winning series Hellboy has earned fans all over the world, among them some of the most respected horror, fantasy, and mystery novelists in the field, and some of Hollywood's most talented writers and directors. Now a who's who list of these writers are drawn together to tell their own tales of Hellboy.
Fourteen-year-old Caz and her friend Lucy do the Creepy Thing. To 'do a creepy' you approach a sleeping person in the dark, in the dead of night, putting your nose one inch away from the sleeper's face for a count of fifteen seconds. One night, Caz breaks into the house of Sara Metherall, a lonely old woman shunned by the community.
Druce's new girlfriend is hot, but what's with the weird behaviour, freaky parents and the super-human intelligence? And was that really a forked tongue he saw or did he imagine it? Then he meets someone on the internet who tells him that aliens have infiltrated the planet. Could Angela be an alien? Is she really trying to suck out his brains?