All Hallows' Eve: 13 Stories
A boy is trapped in a possessed car that has stalled in the path of an oncoming train. A girl is dragged into a crypt during a field trip to an eighteenth-century cemetery. A group of friends meet their fate after an unsettling visit with a backwoods psychic. And that's just the...
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A boy is trapped in a possessed car that has stalled in the path of an oncoming train. A girl is dragged into a crypt during a field trip to an eighteenth-century cemetery. A group of friends meet their fate after an unsettling visit with a backwoods psychic. And that's just the beginning. Celebrated author Vivian Vande Velde is at her spine-tingling best in this collection of thirteen scary stories, all of which take place on Halloween night. With tales that range from the disturbing to the downright gruesome, this is one collection that teens will want to read with the lights on . . . and the doors locked.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780152055769 (0152055762)
Publish date: September 1st 2006
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Teen,
Paranormal,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Holiday,
Suspense,
Supernatural,
Ghosts,
Halloween
Spine-tingling? Mmm yeah sure 1 or 2 stories had that. But the rest? Not really, some are just spine-tingling boring or lame. My favourite ones would be the girl who goes off to find her adoptive parents, and the group that goes to a psychic (I absolutely loved the ending of that story) and the boyf...
I've read a few things by Vivian Vande Velde before, and I was in the right mood for something nice and creepy. It's October! Time to roll out the scary books!Sadly, I was a teensy bit disappointed. I was promised a chilled spine, and I rarely got it. Short story collections are almost always a mixe...
What a creepy and suspenseful collection of short stories! Each of the stories in this book gave me an eerie feeling, but it sure was fun!