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This is a professional horror anthology edited by Jonathan Maberry featuring established YA and children's authors. While the collection is designed to be frightening, it's curated for a young audience and avoids graphic gore, though it contains psychological scares and dark themes. The variety of story tones means some pieces are more intense than others, making it better suited to mature middle-grade and teen readers who actively enjoy horror.
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Multiple Bram Stoker Award–winning author Jonathan Maberry compiles more than twenty stories and poems—written by members of the Horror Writers Association—in this terrifying collection about worst fears. What scares you? Things that go bump in the night? Being irreversibly different? A brutal early death? The unknown?... Multiple Bram Stoker Award–winning author Jonathan Maberry compiles more than twenty stories and poems—written by members of the Horror Writers Association—in this terrifying collection about worst fears. What scares you? Things that go bump in the night? Being irreversibly different? A brutal early death? The unknown? This collection contains stories and poetry by renowned writers such as R. L. Stine, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, and Ellen Hopkins—all members of the Horror Writers Association—about what they fear most. The stories include mermaids, ghosts, and personal demons, and are edited by Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker award winner and author of the Rot & Ruin series.
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- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Calibre Import
- Fantasy
- Young Adult
- Poetry
- American Short stories
- American Horror poetry
- American Horror tales
- American poetry
- Children's literature
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ISBN 9781481450706 · Simon and Schuster