Pub Date: September 12, 2023
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2022950240
Lexile Code: 0690
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 09 to 12
Physical Info: 0.43" H x 8.22" L x 5.61" W ( 0.48 lbs) 176 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Horror | Ghost Stories | Short Stories | Paranormal Occult and Supernatural
Series: The Book of Screams
Description: A delightfully creepy collection of tales about everything from a Jekyll/Hyde homeroom teacher to a boiler-room ghoul to a kid's wobbly "baby eye," woven between excerpts from a central story about a girl whose favorite horror author is stealing children's nightmares for his books.
Brief description:
Jeff Szpirglas is the author of several works for young people, including the horror collections Tales from Beyond the Brain and Tales from the Fringes of Fear. He is also the co-author, with Danielle Saint-Onge, of a number of Orca Echoes titles, including Shark Bait!, X Marks the Spot and Messy Miranda. Jeff has worked at CTV and was an editor at Chirp, Chickadee and Owl magazines. In his spare time, he teaches grade school. Jeff lives with his family in Kitchener, Ontario.
Review Quotes:
"A collection of scary short stories that run the horror gamut."
-- "School Library Journal (SLJ)"