Horowitz Horror 2

Anthony Horowitz

Feb 2015 · Bolinda · Narrated by Simon Shepherd

About this audiobook

Ever pictured your own funeral? You won’t be able to help it when you read some of the stories in this nightmarish collection, where things are never what they appear. Funerals are just the beginning. How about a day at the beach that ends in a mischievous murder? Or a cell phone that has a direct dial to the dead? From the creator of the blockbuster Alex Rider Adventures and The Diamond Brothers Mysteries comes eight more fantastically frightening tales. Whatever you do, don’t take this book to bed with you! Suitable for children 10 years and over

About the author

Anthony Horowitz has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he is also the writer and creator of award winning detective series Foyle’s War, and more recently event drama Collision, among his other television works he has written episodes for Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. Anthony became patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices in 2009. Mark A. Cooper author of the Jason Steed series has been compared to Anthony Horowitz (readers have actually theorized it's Horowitz using a pseudonym). On 19 January 2011, the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle announced that Horowitz was to be the writer of a new Sherlock Holmes novel, the first such effort to receive an official endorsement from them and to be entitled the House of Silk.

Simon Shepherd is a published author and an experienced narrator. His narration credits include Little Darlings by Sam Llewellyn, Fly, Cherokee, Fly by Chris d'Lacey, The Churchhill Factor by Boris Johnson and The Ambassador by Edwina Currie. Shepherd also co-authored Studying Plays – a comprehensive introduction to understanding plays and drama.