Anthony is the author of many very successful children's books, most notably the Alex Rider series, the most recent of which Stormseeker achieved the No 1 spot in the Neilsen charts. The future is no secret anymore in Light Moves, but Ethan Sly should get worried when other people notice his good luck. Bath night 2/5- Anthony uses effective imagery techniques to make the bath and Isabella’s visions horrifying and frightening. Flight 715 – A girl has a nightmare, in which she foresees that the airliner which is about to fly her family home from a vacation in Vancouver is destined to crash.

Would have been better if Gary’s grandma warns him about nature’s creature and why he should respect the countryside. Here again the bewilderment and helplessness of the people involved are captured well by the author in sometimes horrifying and in a couple of stories, darkly comical tones. He repeatedly receives messages telling him to tell people about how to deal with their death, but he never tells anybody. A schoolboy is given the computer as a present, and ends up being forced by the local bully to give him the names of the winners.

When I say that I like horror stories, I mean stories that scare me to the bones for their ominous effect altogether, not stories with horrific activities of a serial killer or a mentally disturbed person. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. One was story was The Lift - a police officer on the verge of retirement is tasked with solving the mysterious disappearance of a child from a crowded lift (elevator). I feel it was a confusing version of “killer camera” with a haunted object causing misfortune to the user.

I also feel that Matthews discovery of the contents of the film tape was heavily macabre and too dark-natured for a middle grade story. Some of them are very common - what I mean to say is that I have seen similar stories in other anthologies or TV serials. From a ghost in a computer which predicts things, to a bone idol boy who gets trapped in an video game and a demon in a camera.When I was like 6 or 7, I used to pop around our local library and borrow the smaller collections of these stories - the thin little books with two or three stories in each volume. The pre-loved books are carefully cleaned and maintained offering a wide variety of general and specialist titles from children's to adults. Out of the nine stories, two ( Light Moves and The Man with the Yellow Face) are conveyed from the viewpoint of the leading character. Like an ordinary-looking camera with evil powers, a bus ride home that turns into your worst nightmare, and a mysterious computer game that nobody would play. Especially when we know where we are going the whole time and are not surprised when we reach the end.

The racism is amplified further by the fact the audiobook’s narrator felt the need to affect extremely stereotypical, awful “Asian” accents one would expect in a horrible shock comedy show from the 90s. Later in the story a mysterious Japanese man appears with sushi, and the man himself is openly hated by the white family, who then proceed to describe the sushi as “disgusting” and feed it to their cat.If the first letter of each sentence is put together, then the phrase "I am going to murder you soon" is spelled out.