Beneath the bed and other scary stories

Max Brallier

Book - 2019

The kids at school dare John to visit the old house on the hill at night, and when he and his sister go in they find dusty dishes set on the table, a book open like it is waiting for a reader, and something hiding under the bed in the attic--and that is only one of the five scary stories with unexpected twists that are included in this collection.

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Subjects
Genres
Horror fiction
Readers (Publications)
Published
New York, NY : Acorn/Scholastic Inc 2019.
Language
English
Main Author
Max Brallier (author)
Other Authors
Letizia Rubegni (illustrator)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
55 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
ISBN
9781338318548
9781338318531
  • Beneath the bed
  • A hair down to my stomach
  • The statue
  • A dark and stormy night
  • The noise at the window.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

A series debut with five screamworthy short stories. Acquired from a strange box left at pseudo-author Mr. Shivers' doorstep, the tales are initially introduced via a note to readers. Presented in a mix of first- and third-person narration, the tales run the gamut of eerie episodes. Classmates dare siblings John and Beth to visit a haunted house at night. A child feels a hair in the bottom of their stomach. A creepy statue draped with a tattered quilt haunts a living room. Oliver leaves his toys outside in the rain, but when he looks outside they've moved. Lucy hears scraping at the window at night, but mom and dad say it's just a tree. Brallier's (The Last Kids on Earth and the Cosmic Beyond, 2018, etc.) strong horror chops translate well into this Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark-lite package for early chapter-book readers. Rubegni mixes high-contrast spot and full-page illustrations, positioning sharply outlined characters against smudgy charcoal backgrounds. The atmospheric, full-color illustrations also aid in decoding. Each page contains fewer than 10 sentences; longer sentences are broken up in multiple lines with ample leading. Occasional words are set in boldface for emphasis and add a little extra thrill factor to the well-paced plots. The final page includes instructions on how to draw Oliver's teddy bear as well as a few simple creative prompts.Simplified spooks for the we-want-it-just-scary-enough crowd. (Early reader/horror. 5-7) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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