Bored with sleeping soundly? Fed up with sweet dreams? Well this is the book for you!
Deadly Tales features two nightmare urban legends that you'll pray aren't true.
In "Love Bites", Isabella, the hottest girl in school, returns from holiday with a nasty love bite on her cheek - and it's getting bigger.
In "It Crawled From the Dark", Laurence knows about the monsters on the beach. But everyone just laughs at him - what a geek! But who's going to be the last one laughing?
Which one will you dare to read first?
Roy Apps is the author of more than fifty children's books, including The Twitches, Fang Gang and How To Handle. He is the author of the highly successful Dream to Win series for Franklin Watts.
His novel The Secret Summer of Daniel Lyons won The Writers' Guild Children's Book Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Awards. It is now a successful musical.
Roy writes extensively for radio, theatre and TV. In 2001 he was awarded a BAFTA for his children's TV work, which includes Byker Grove, The Ghost Hunter and Barmy Aunt Boomerang.
Roy visits schools, libraries and bookshops to read from his books and to share the secrets of The Shed in Your Head . He runs Writing Projects for all ages and over the last few years has helped young and new writers make books, stage plays, films, performance poetry and most recently, an opera.