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Post by dem bones on May 19, 2015 11:28:59 GMT
Bruce Coville - Book Of Nightmares (Lions, 1995)  Steve Fastner
Bruce Coville - Special Note
Bruce Coville - There's Nothing Under The Bed
Anne Mazer - Through The Mirror
Deborah Millitello - The Boy Who Cried Dragon
Jamie Lee Simner - Drawing The Moon
Lawrence Watt-Evans - The Cat Came Back
Joe R. Lansdale - The Fat Man
Eugene M. Gagliano - The Hand
Michael Mansfield - Toll Call
Michael Markiewicz - Master Of The Hunt
Mary Downing Hahn - Give The Puppet A Hand
Steven Prohaska - Halloween Party
Jane Yolen - The Baby-Sitter
Mark A. Garland - Death's Door
About The AuthorsBlurb Weird and wild, terrifying and strange - here is a book about things that go more than just bump in the night.
Who knows what might happen when you go to sleep? You could be drawn into a mirror or possessed by a strange puppet ...
Read these spine-chilling and inexplicable adventures with caution - and turn the pages very, very carefully!Mary Danby's Nightmares trilogy scores highly because it treats target audience as sentient beings and therefore holds appeal for children of all ages. So let's dip in and see how Mr. Colville measures up. Steven Prohaska - Halloween Party: Their Trick or Treating done for the evening, Michael and his little brother Eric head for Chris's party. But Michael shows up at the wrong house, where a select gathering of very grown up ghouls, mummies and vampires are celebrating in sinister style. Anne Mazer - Through The Mirror: The reflection in Sandra's mirror is not her own but that of a dirty, dishevelled waif with a mean grin. Hands reach out of the glass .... Mark A. Garland - Death's Door: The teenage narrator and his equally obnoxious chums are sworn to make each day's school bus run a misery for the driver. But today there's a replacement at the wheel - and he hides his pale face beneath a cowl. The kids grow increasingly irate as their weedy pranks fail to provoke a reaction. Death parks the bus on the railway crossing, and climbs out to enjoy the show ... Michael Mansfield - Toll Call: Flash fiction. Cold callers are only pretending they have something to sell. Really, they are in the business of taking. Eugene M. Gagliano - The Hand: Jimmy is one of those rubbish kids who don't like graveyards, so imagine his joy when, on moving to a new town, his bedroom directly overlooks Kentorville Cemetery! Worse, the previous owner was the late Old Man Baxter who last a hand in an agricultural accident. Rumour has it, the phantom, bloodied limb floats through the night ... Could have been well grisly (e.g., certain examples in Mary Danby's Nightmares), but, fatally takes a turn for the mawkish (e.g., just about everything in the early Armada Ghost books). Through The Mirror by far the stand out to date, with Death's Door also worthy of our time.
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Post by dem bones on May 21, 2015 6:44:10 GMT
.... as we would expect, the two reprints are class.
Joe R. Lansdale - The Fat Man: (Horror Show, jan. 1987). They've sworn on a dead cat, now there's no turning back. Joe and Harold must deliver on their promise to investigate the flabby fellow with the tattooed belly who lives alone at the end of Crowler Street. It's a dangerous mission. Can he really be abducting the town folk and replacing them with self-animated marionettes? What becomes of the bodies? Nightmarish, funny-weird, and possibly not written with the tiny audience in mind.
Jane Yolen - The Baby-Sitter: (Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg [eds], Things That Go Bump In The Night, Harper, 1989). Hilary doesn't believe the Mitchell twins when they tell her about the Them's who haunt their house and can only be warded off with a spell. But when a mad old man breaks in, she has cause to be grateful that the six year olds told the truth.
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