Peril at Price Manor

By: Laura Parnum

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly

Fans of Ghost Squad will love this lightly scary creature feature standalone novel about a tween aspiring horror movie actress who pairs up with the twin children of her favorite director to defeat zombifying octopus-like creatures!

Halle dreams of becoming a scream queen. She practices her loudest scream every day and has learned a lot from studying the horror movies of her favorite director, Maximus Price. Maximus lives just outside town, and when the chance to go to his home arises, Halle grabs it with both hands. She doesn’t realize that real life horrors await her at Price Manor.

Paisley and Argyle, Maximus’s twin children, think that the creepy, squid-like creatures that have attached themselves to the faces of the manor’s staff, putting them in a zombie-like stupor, are just another one of their prankster dad’s tricks. When Halle arrives and is attacked by one of the creatures, she meets the twins and assures them that this is no joke. The three kids will have to work together using all of their unusual talents to defeat the monsters—and maybe even save the world.

Blending quirky humor and poignant heart with delightfully creepy monsters, this debut middle grade novel is a perfect entry point for young readers to the horror genre.

“Price Manor is perfectly mysterious. With just the right amount of chills and thrills, I was hooked from page one!”—Lindsay Currie, author of Scritch Scratch and The Girl in White

"It's Alien in a spooky mansion. Nonstop action, tentacles, and slime. So much fun."—J.W. Ocker, author of The Smashed Man of Dread End

• Perfect for Halloween Reading
• Ideal for fans of the supernatural
• Features light scares

The part when they get splashed by water

I liked the part when they find their dad I don’t like the part where they talk about their mom’s death

Should have taken two chapters, not 47

Too much suspension of disbelief is required for this story. The whole premise of the kids not calling for help the entire time was frustrating. I appreciate the whole H.P. Lovecraft “Call of Cthulhu” tentacled antagonist theme but my 10 year old continually asked why the kids made such terrible decisions and didn’t just call for help.