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Phil Hickes

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I live in Oregon at the moment, though I hail from the UK. Growing up in a house overlooking a graveyard, on the edge of the bleak and foreboding Pennine Hills, seems to have instilled in me an obsession with all things dark and spooky. The complete Aveline Jones trilogy is available at all good bookstores and has been, or will be, translated into Spanish, German, Czech, French, Turkish, Polish and Russian. My latest effort is called Shadowhall Academy and follows the spooky adventures of the Aunt Lilian character from the Aveline books as a young girl in the 1980s. I also have a dyslexia-friendly ghost story coming out with Barrington Stoke at Halloween this year.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 11,200 ratings · 2,317 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Haunting of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #1) by Phil Hickes (Goodreads Author), Keith Robinson (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 6,014 ratings — published 2020 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bewitching of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #2) by Phil Hickes (Goodreads Author) (Authors), Keith Robinson (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 2,557 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing of Aveline Jones (Aveline Jones, #3) by Phil Hickes (Goodreads Author), Keith Robinson (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 1,652 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whispering Walls (Shadowhall Academy, #1) 4.25 avg rating — 408 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Read, Scream, Repeat by Jennifer Killick, Phil Hickes (Goodreads Author), Kirsty Applebaum (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 168 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Attic Toys by Jeremy C. Shipp (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe McKinney (Goodreads Author), Cate Gardner (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Story Society (Shadowhall Academy, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 131 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Day of October 3.85 avg rating — 92 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aveline Jones Series 3 Books Collection Set by Phil Hickes (Goodreads Author), Keith Robinson (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Aveline Jones (3 books)
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Keith Robinson (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)

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Shadowhall Academy (2 books)
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The Devil's Playground

by Craig Russell (Goodreads Author)

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Mordew (Cities of the Weft, #1)

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The Wine-Dark Sea

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If you're a a fan of classic ghost stories done well, as I am, then I think you'll enjoy this, as I did. It has all the tropes we like in ghost stories, foggy moors, isolated churches, creaks and bumps in the night, but it doesn't feel hackneyed or o ...more
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This book's more gothic than Morticia Adams digging graves under a full moon on Halloween. Enjoyed it very much. Dropped a star because I saw the twist coming quite early (which is a pretty rotten thing to do but there you go). Edit to add: Fast forwa ...more
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