Red Rain is a slam-bang, stay-up-all-night, leave-the-lights-on thriller. R.L. Stine has scared out kids for years. Now it's our turn . . .

This is a sophisticated thriller with real characters, crisp writing, and a wicked sense of humour. Keep this book far, far away from your kids.

Ready to be haunted by the master? Red Rain proves he's got nightmares for us all

Leave the lights on and the door locked. R.L. Stine is now scaring the bejeezus out of grown-ups. Red Rain will put goose bumps on even the toughest adult

[T]he pacing couldn't be more perfect as the plot unwinds at a steady speed that maintains plausibility. Stine has written a really scary book, where seemingly impossible situations occur, yet, somehow, he makes them believable

Stine masterfully builds suspense and I found myself aching to know what would happen next

Leave the lights on and the door locked. R. L. Stine is now scaring the bejeezus out of grown-ups. Red Rain will put goosebumps on even the toughest adult

This is the moment I've been terrified of - when R. L. Stine decided he wasn't just going to scare children, but that he would focus his power on frightening the rest of us. Ready to be haunted by the master? Red Rain proves he's got nightmares for us all

There's simply no need to frighten somebody that much. But what else should we expect from the undisputed master of fear? R. L. Stine is a name synonymous with excellence . . . A dark, all-too-real tale that brings the unimaginable to life

Consistently intriguing

Superb... [Ackroyd] makes the familiar deliciously mysterious

In a slender novel, London's great fictional mapper Peter Ackroyd has woven together a rich spread of tales of the city

Ackroyd writes about the capital, from Camden to Chelsea, like no-one else and he captures the sense of the sixties perfectly, with high-society and low-life London so dangerously close to each other. Full of twists and turns, this is Ackroyd's most exciting novel to date

A classic Ackroyd tale that will not fail to please