Guys Read: Terrifying Tales
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Eleven masters of suspenseโKelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel Josรฉ Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita Williams-Garciaโhave come together to bring you a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories with illustrations by Gris Grimly, perfect for sharing around the campfire, reading under the covers with a flashlight, and scaring your friendsโ pants off.
Compiled and edited by kid-lit madman Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: Terrifying Tales is a creepy-fun read (if youโre brave enough, that is).
- Imaginary Friends: What if your imaginary friend wasnโt so imaginaryโฆ and came back angry? Thatโs the problem Tyler faces when Mr. Shocky returns.
- Dark Fairy Tales: Adam Gidwitz delivers a bloody, messed-up version of the Blue-Bearded Bird-Man that will make you pee in your pants.
- Monsters and Mayhem: A wished-for brother who might eat the baby. Cursed coconut heads that move on their own. This collection is crawling with creatures.
- Supernatural Suspense: From R.L. Stine, a magician who can make you *really* disappear. From other masters of suspense, creepy librarians, vengeful ghosts, and tales so scary youโll sleep with the lights on.
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Jon Scieszka is the National Ambassador for Children's Literature emeritus and the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books for kids, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, Robot Zot!, and the Time Warp Trio series. Jon founded Guys Read to encourage a passion for reading among young boys, with the philosophy that boys love to read most when they are reading things they love. A former elementary school teacher, Jon lives in Brooklyn with his family. For more great books, more great facts, and more about your favorite authors, head over to www.guysread.com. You'll be glad you did.
R.L. Stine is one of the best-selling children's authors in history. Goosebumps, which will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2027, has more than 400 million books in print in 32 languages. The Goosebumps series made R.L. Stine a worldwide publishing celebrity (and frequent Jeopardy and crossword answer) and has inspired two hit television series and two feature films starring Jack Black. His other popular childrenโs book series include Fear Street (the inspiration for four feature films on Netflix), Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Rotten School. In 2024, Stine received a Grand Master lifetime achievement award from the Mystery Writers of America. RL. Stine lives in New York City with his wife Jane, a former editor and publisher.
Dav Pilkey is the creator of many acclaimed childrenโs books, including Dogzilla, Kat Kong, god bless the gargoyles, and the blockbuster series Captain Underpants, Ricky Ricotta, Dog Man, and Cat Kid Comic Club. His picture book The Paperboy received a Caldecott Honor. Visit his website at pilkey.com.
Claire Legrand is the author of Foxheart, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, The Year of Shadows, and Some Kind of Happiness, as well as the New York Times-bestselling young adult fantasy Furyborn and its sequels. She is one of the four authors behind The Cabinet of Curiosities. Claire Legrand lives in New Jersey.
KELLY BARNHILL lives in Minnesota with her husband and three children. She is the author of four novels, most recently The Girl Who Drank the Moon, winner of the 2017 John Newbery Medal. She is also the winner of the World Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, a Nebula Award, and the PEN/USA literary prize. Visit her online at www.kellybarnhill.com or on Twitter: @kellybarnhill.
Lisa Brown is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of How To Be, Sometimes You Get What You Want, and the New York Times bestselling book The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.
Rita Williams-Garcia's Newbery Honor Book, One Crazy Summer, was a winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award, a National Book Award finalist, the recipient of the Scott OโDell Award for Historical Fiction, and a New York Times bestseller. The two sequels, P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Alabama, were both Coretta Scott King Author Award winners and ALA Notable Childrenโs Books. She is also the author of the NAACP Image Awardโwinning and National Book Award finalist Clayton Byrd Goes Underground; A Sitting in St. James, a Boston GlobeโHorn Book Award winner and Los Angeles Times Book Award winner; Like Sisters on the Homefront, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; Blue Tights; and four ALA Best Books for Young Adults: Jumped, a National Book Award finalist; No Laughter Here; Every Time a Rainbow Dies, a Publishers Weekly Best Childrenโs Book; and Fast Talk on a Slow Track. Rita Williams-Garcia lives in Jamaica, New York, with her husband and has two adult daughters. You can visit her online at ritawg.com.
Gris Grimly is a children's book illustrator who moonlights in painting and filmmaking. Some of his best-known works include Gris Grimly's Frankenstein, Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness and Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Death and Dementia, and Neil Gaiman's bestselling picture book The Dangerous Alphabet. He lives in Los Angeles.
