Book one in the internationally bestselling Escape from Furnace series that has captivated millions of readers worldwide. A teenager must survive the nightmarish horrors of a deadly underground prison in this fast-paced and terrifying read that’s perfect for fans of The Maze Runner.“A thrill ride that will leave the audience wanting more . . . Downright terrifying.” —VOYA (on Solitary)“Fresh and ferocious....

The second book in Alexander Gordon Smith's no-holds-barred teen series, where the terror has only just begun - now with the bestselling US cover.*We thought we'd made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock's ticking. Because if we don't es...

Prison Break meets Darren Shan in an unforgettable story of terror, evil and intrigue. Alexander Gordon Smith's cult teen series has been reissued with the bestselling US covers.Beneath heaven is hell.Beneath hell is Furnace.When thirteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, his life changes forever. Now he is an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary - the toughest prison in the world for young offenders. A vast building sunk deep into ...

Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries.From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived with between realms: the world of everyday and the world of supernatural. The Snow Ghost and Other Tales brings together some of the best and scariest tales that endured across cen...

The complete course on connecting to the other side, from one of the world's leading psychic mediumsDuring the many years he spent delivering messages of hope and love from the spirit world, Gordon Smith, “Britain’s most accurate medium”, has observed how many people long to learn how to be more intuitive themselves, and would love to be able to connect to the other side in the same way he does.Gordon feels strongly that developing your intuitive gifts shou...

Gordon Smith is renowned for delivering powerful messages to people from their loved ones on the Other Side. But very often it’s not just human friends and family members who come through—the animals that have been so close to us in life also continue to visit us after death.There have been many times when Gordon has given readings to clients about the loss of those very close to them, but these individuals can’t “hear” the message because pain has closed them down...

It is December 1944 and Europe is still gripped by war. In the densely forested mountains of Belgium one of the conflict's most brutal battles is raging. Cut off from the front, a ragtag group of young British and American soldiers finds itself being hunted by a patrol of elite German Special Forces, including a newly commissioned officer called Kreuz—a teenage boy who will grow up to become Warden Cross (the fearsome prison director who will one day rule Furnace Penitentiary, the terrifyi...

Trapped in the hellish depths of Furnace Penitentiary, Alex Sawyer and his friends face a chilling new nightmare.After a failed escape attempt, Alex and his mates find themselves deeper in the guts of Solitary, the prison for young offenders. Thrown into solitary confinement, they must now fight to survive the hellish conditions that threaten to overwhelm them. As they grapple with the horrors haunting their endless nights, they realize that before another...

The whole world has become a prison, and Alfred Furnace is its master.Monsters rule the streets, beasts of pure fury that leave nothing but murder and madness in their wake. Those who do not die are turned, becoming slaves to Furnace's reign of cruelty. It is a war to end all wars, one that will leave the planet in ruins.bI am a monster too. I am one of Alfred Furnace's children. And I am the only one who can stop him. I have to find a way to use my powers to destroy Furnac...

A straightforward introduction to connecting with the spirit world, developing your psychic skills and using your mediumship gifts to help others.A medium acts as a conduit between this life and the afterlife, receiving messages from the spirits of those who have passed. Gordon Smith, a world-famous psychic medium, is renowned for his ability to provide exact names, addresses and events relevant to a person's life and the lives of those they have known.In t...

THE stories in this volume are transcribed from voluminous illustrated diaries which have been kept by me for some twenty years spent in travel and in sport in many lands--the last nine of them almost entirely in Japan, while collecting subjects of natural history for the British Museum; trawling and dredging in the Inland Sea, sometimes with success, sometimes without, but in the end contributing to the treasury some fifty things new to Science, and, according to Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, ...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’ and recognised as one of the ‘big four’ Golden Age crime authors.When the body of Sir William Ponson is found in the Cranshaw River near his home of Luce Manor, it is assumed to be an accident – until the evidence points to murder. Inspector Tanner of Scotland Yard discovers that those who would benefit most from Sir William’s death seem to have...