Half-Minute Horrors [Paperback]

How scared can you get in just thirty seconds?

Dive into the shortest, scariest stories ever created, with more than seventy instant thrills from the likes of Lemony Snicket, James Patterson, Neil Gaiman, R.L. Stine, Holly Black, Brett Helquist, and Margaret Atwood. You’ll never look at your closet door, your cat, your sock drawer, or even yourself in the mirror the same way again!

How scared can you get in just thirty seconds?

Dive into the shortest, scariest stories ever created, with more than seventy instant thrills from the likes of Lemony Snicket, James Patterson, Neil Gaiman, R.L. Stine, Holly Black, Brett Helquist, and Margaret Atwood. You’ll never look at your closet door, your cat, your sock drawer, or even yourself in the mirror the same way again!

Only have a minute to be scared? This is your book. Writing just a paragraph or a page, some of the best-loved kids book authors each contributed a compact creepy tale to this collection. A definite spook-fest. -Washington Post

This thrilling addition to the shiver-inducing arsenal will appeal to even the most reluctant of readers. -School Library Journal

This ones a creepy keeper. -ALA Booklist

Its a party game: write a scary story that will take less than thirty seconds to read. With a party of seventy-five that includes such guests as Neil Gaiman, Sonya Sones, Jon Scieszka, and Margaret Atwood, the results are bound to be pretty good. This is not the stuff of cozy campfires but a collection of micro-narratives that are eerie, grotesque, gnomic (Joyce Carol Oates is particularly inscrutable), or darkly funny. -Horn Book (starred review)

Its a party game: write a scary story that will take less than thirty seconds to read. With a party of seventy-five that includes such guests as Neil Gaiman, Sonya Sones, Jon Scieszka, and Margaret Atwood, the results are bound to be pretty good.lS*