Share your scares, get a book
We have got a ton of horror books that came in just in time for Halloween. This calls for a scary story giveaway!
Besides Stephen King's new collection of short stoires, Just AFter Sunset, we've got the 10th-anniversary edition of his Bag of Bones. There's also the lastest Weird U.S., Clive Barker's Mister B. Gone, Chosts/Aliens by Internet celebrity Trey Hamburger, author of Real Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book.
We've got a few titles for the kids, including an enchanting pop-up book titled I'm Looking for a Monster. For the YA crowd, we've got the latest from the Demonata series, Death's Shadow.
If you're more interested in fact-based chills, there's Kris Waldberr's Doomed Queens, James E. Starrs' A Voice for the Dead: A Forensice Investigator's Pursuit of the Truth in the Grave, and The Sun and The Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-century New York, by Matthew Goodman.
In short, there are more than a dozen titles to choose from. And if you're interested in owning one of these scary tomes, all you have to do is share your own scary story -- fiction or nonfiction.
All we're missing is the campfire.
While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, 
Comments
Several years ago, my brother in law and my niece, who was around 2 at the time and just really starting to talk, were headed upstairs to get ready for bed. She was not cooperating, so my brother in law stopped halfway up the staircase to encourage her. Suddenly my niece stopped, stared up the stairs, and in a weird, deep, whispering voice, said "Behind you...." My brother in law said every hair on his body stood up and he got a huge chill. It freaked him out and for a while he was convinced the house was haunted.
Posted by: Karl | October 30, 2008 4:21 PM
This is a ghost story I wrote a while ago. It's more creepy than frightening, so I don't know if it counts.
http://bechtold.freeshell.org/DryBones_ReadStreet.html
Posted by: Thomas Bechtold | October 31, 2008 2:12 PM
Creepy is perfect, thanks Thomas!
And Karl, I had a similar situation in a creepy abandoned house in the woods that I wasn't supposed to be in. But it ended up being a raccoon.
Posted by: Nancy | October 31, 2008 4:26 PM