As November stretches into December and the darkness falls before dinner time, it’s the perfect season to read a spooky story by the flickering light of candle and fire. Here are three new books on our shelves that might raise the hair on the back of your neck. Reader beware! Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker
The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers for their flesh, a witch who tries to steal their skins, a ghost who hunts them through the snow . . . and other things too scary to mention. Featuring eight interconnected stories and sixteen hauntingly beautiful illustrations, Scary Stories for Young Foxes contains the kinds of adventures and thrills you love to listen to beside a campfire in the dark of night. Fans of Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Auxier, and R. L. Stine have found their next favorite book. Out To Get You by Josh Allen Get ready for a collection of thirteen short stories that will chill your bones, tingle your spine, and scare your pants off. Debut author Josh Allen masterfully concocts horror in the most innocent places, like R.L. Stine meets a modern Edgar Allan Poe. A stray kitten turns into a threatening follower. The street sign down the block starts taunting you. Even your own shadow is out to get you! Spooky things love hiding in plain sight. The everyday world is full of sinister secrets and these page-turning stories show that there's darkness even where you least expect it. Readers will sleep with one eye open. . . . Trace by Pat Cummings Trace Carter is still feeling out of place at his new home in his Auntie Lea's brownstone in New York, trying to forget the terrible accident that killed his parents, when one day he takes a wrong turn in the Public Library only to run into a crying little boy with tattered old clothes, who seems to be a ghost. Trace discovers the ghost has ties to his own history, and the accident, and that if he learns what the ghost boy knows he may finally be able to move on himself.
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AuthorSafranit Molly is the librarian at Portland Jewish Academy. Archives
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