Author : Diane Setterfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743298039
When her health begins failing, the mysterious author Vida Winter decides to let Margaret Lea, a biographer, write the truth about her life, but Margaret needs to verify the facts since Vida has a history of telling outlandish tales.
Author : Josh Allen
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0823443949
Thirteen ordinary kids. Thirteen ordinary towns. Danger lurks around every corner! "Wonderful and weird, compelling and unsettling." - Gary Schmidt, two-time Newbery Honor author Get ready for a collection of thirteen short stories that will chill your bones, tingle your spine, and scare your pants off. Debut author Josh Allen masterfully concocts horror in the most innocent places, like R.L. Stine meets a modern Edgar Allan Poe. A stray kitten turns into a threatening follower. The street sign down the block starts taunting you. Even your own shadow is out to get you! Spooky things love hiding in plain sight. The everyday world is full of sinister secrets and these page-turning stories show that there's darkness even where you least expect it. Readers will sleep with one eye open. . . . A glow-in-the-dark cover and thirteen eerie full-page illustrations by award-winning artist Sarah J. Coleman accompany the tales in this frightful mashup that reads like a contemporary Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Don't miss the author and illustrator's other creepy collections: Once They See You and Only If You Dare. A Junior Library Guild Selection An ILA-CBC Children's Choice!
Author : A Bates
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Horror stories
ISBN : 9780613143288
For use in schools and libraries only. Horror stories by Christopher Pike, R.L. Stein, and other authors deal with a wax museum, vampire love, deadly dolls, and other themes.
Author : Charlotte Van den Broeck
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 19,21 MB
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1635423171
A prize-winning Belgian poet explores the nature of creative endeavor—the godlike ambition, the crushing defeat of failure—through the stories of thirteen tragic architects. In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects—architects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire in seventeenth-century France to a theater that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC, and an eerily sinking swimming pool in the author’s hometown. Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Darwin to art history, stories from her own life, and popular culture, Van den Broeck brings patterns into focus as she asks, What is that strange, life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator? Threaded through each story is the author’s meditation on the question of suicide—what Albert Camus called the “one truly serious philosophical problem”—in relation to creativity and public disgrace. The result is a profoundly idiosyncratic book, breaking ground in literary nonfiction, as well as providing solace and consolation to anyone who has ever attempted a creative act.
Author : Juddy Hollon
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1300355670
A collection of short stories involving death with a strange, continuing twist.
Author : Richard McOmber
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595323812
Thirteen modest little tales of horror and dread; here you can read of: A planet infested with monsters and unimaginable danger A man lonely enough to ignore the supernatural for love A woman literally consumed by her own hatred A small boy battling a monster under his bed An outlaw biker's final mistake And eight more disturbing tales of the weird, the creepy, and the ghostly. Lock your doors, turn down your lights, and share these yarns with a friend. You won't want to read them alone!
Author : Rachel Renée Russell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Birthdays
ISBN : 9781536436808
It's Nikki Maxwell's birthday!! Will it be a blast or a bust?
Author : Elsie Chapman
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1534421866
“A briliant multicultual collection that reminds readers that stories about food are rarely just about the food alone.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A stunning collection of short stories about the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives in teens, from bestselling and critically acclaimed authors, including Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco. A shy teenager attempts to express how she really feels through the pastries she makes at her family’s pasteleria. A tourist from Montenegro desperately seeks a magic soup dumpling that can cure his fear of death. An aspiring chef realizes that butter and soul are the key ingredients to win a cooking competition that could win him the money to save his mother’s life. Welcome to Hungry Hearts Row, where the answers to most of life’s hard questions are kneaded, rolled, baked. Where a typical greeting is, “Have you had anything to eat?” Where magic and food and love are sometimes one in the same. Told in interconnected short stories, Hungry Hearts explores the many meanings food can take on beyond mere nourishment. It can symbolize love and despair, family and culture, belonging and home.
Author : Amerie,
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1681193655
A New York Times Bestseller This edgy anthology teams up acclaimed YA authors and popular YouTubers to create 13 fairy tales and 13 inspired works--all from a "villain's" perspective, in the vein of Maleficent or Wicked. Leave it to the heroes to save the world--villains just want to rule the world. In this unique YA anthology, thirteen acclaimed, bestselling authors team up with thirteen influential BookTubers to reimagine fairy tales from the oft-misunderstood villains' points of view. These fractured, unconventional spins on classics like "Medusa," Sherlock Holmes, and "Jack and the Beanstalk" provide a behind-the-curtain look at villains' acts of vengeance, defiance, and rage--and the pain, heartbreak, and sorrow that spurned them on. No fairy tale will ever seem quite the same again! Featuring writing from . . . Authors: Renée Ahdieh, Amerie, Soman Chainani, Susan Dennard, Sarah Enni, Marissa Meyer, Cindy Pon, Victoria Schwab, Samantha Shannon, Adam Silvera, Andrew Smith, April Genevieve Tucholke, and Nicola Yoon. BookTubers: Benjamin Alderson (Benjaminoftomes), Sasha Alsberg (abookutopia), Whitney Atkinson (WhittyNovels), Tina Burke (ChristinaReadsYA blog and TheLushables), Catriona Feeney (LittleBookOwl), Jesse George (JessetheReader), Zoë Herdt (readbyzoe), Samantha Lane (Thoughts on Tomes), Sophia Lee (thebookbasement), Raeleen Lemay (padfootandprongs07), Regan Perusse (PeruseProject), Christine Riccio (polandbananasBOOKS), and Steph Sinclair & Kat Kennedy (Cuddlebuggery blog and channel).
Author : Illustratus
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1452171327
A beautifully illustrated collection of thirteen original spine-tingling tales perfect for middle schoolers. A finger against the inside of a mirror . . . A wood where the trees look back . . . A basement door blocked by a brick wall so thick, it stifles the screams from below . . . This original collection of chilling poems and tales contains the only true ghost stories in existence (as the book itself will tell you)—thirteen eerie encounters perfect for sharing . . . if you dare. Accompanied by striking illustrations and building to a truly spine-tingling conclusion, this haunting book will consume the imagination and keep readers of every age up long past their bedtimes. Praise for Ghost “A delightfully horrific and atmospheric collection to share aloud or under the blankets with a long-lasting flashlight. . . Perfect for children who want a good scare!” —School Library Journal,starred review “Readers may not wish to read this chilling collection of stories and poems alone at night. . . . Ghastly and imaginative storytelling for the young—and not-so-young.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
