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41 reviews for:
Scream and Scream Again!: Spooky Stories from Mystery Writers of America
Chris Grabenstein, R.L. Stine, Bruce Hale
3.2 AVERAGE
41 reviews for:
Scream and Scream Again!: Spooky Stories from Mystery Writers of America
Chris Grabenstein, R.L. Stine, Bruce Hale
3.2 AVERAGE
medium-paced
The best revenge - 3 stars
Red head and bloody bones - 3 stars
Bricks and bones - 2 stars
Ring and run - 4 stars
The unknown patriot - 1 stars
Summer of sharks - 3 stars
Rule seven - 2 stars
Cat got your tongue - 2 stars
The ice scream truck - 5 stars
The witch of Byron's Bayou - 2 stars
Bloodstone - 2 stars
Area code 666 - 1 star
The trouble with squirrels - 2 stars
The necklace and the monster - 4 stars
The only Child - 3 stars
Kamikaze iguanas - 2 stars
The nightmare express - 4 stars
The girl in the window - 3 stars
Feed the birds - 1 stars
The platform - 1 stars
Red head and bloody bones - 3 stars
Bricks and bones - 2 stars
Ring and run - 4 stars
The unknown patriot - 1 stars
Summer of sharks - 3 stars
Rule seven - 2 stars
Cat got your tongue - 2 stars
The ice scream truck - 5 stars
The witch of Byron's Bayou - 2 stars
Bloodstone - 2 stars
Area code 666 - 1 star
The trouble with squirrels - 2 stars
The necklace and the monster - 4 stars
The only Child - 3 stars
Kamikaze iguanas - 2 stars
The nightmare express - 4 stars
The girl in the window - 3 stars
Feed the birds - 1 stars
The platform - 1 stars
Alcune storie carine, altre decisamente meno ma è comunque una lettura piacevole.
I absolutely loved this so much more than I thought I would. Some of the stories actually gave me the spooks. My top three favorite stories from this anthology would have to be:
1. Bricks and Bones by Emmy Laybourne
2. Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Bruce Hale
3. The Witch of Byron’s Bayou by Heather Graham
If you pick up a copy, definitely check those three out. I recommend listening to the audiobook. It was great.
1. Bricks and Bones by Emmy Laybourne
2. Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Bruce Hale
3. The Witch of Byron’s Bayou by Heather Graham
If you pick up a copy, definitely check those three out. I recommend listening to the audiobook. It was great.
Nice to have many different authors doing scary stories. There were only a few I didn't care for, just not my style but still good stories.
My daughter and I have been reading this for literally months. The library website says “no more renewals allowed.” 😂
It could just be my bad sleep habits but I swear two pages in every night I was falling asleep.
That being said there were some genuinely good stories. There’s the one about the kids and the ice cream truck- that was 10/10. Good solid creep factor, you sorta know where it’s going, easy to imagine and sufficiently scary.
There was another one also, Don’t feed the birds? I think? That one was good too.
Most of the other stories I genuinely could not recall the next DAY. I don’t mean now, months later, I mean the very next night when I went to finish a story I had no idea what was happening.
Another story was too gross to finish - something about squirrels and roadkill and grilling iguanas? Both the kiddo and I agreed to skip. Odd choice for a kids book.
Anyway. Wouldn’t really recommend unless you cherry pick the stories you want to read, but not bad.
It could just be my bad sleep habits but I swear two pages in every night I was falling asleep.
That being said there were some genuinely good stories. There’s the one about the kids and the ice cream truck- that was 10/10. Good solid creep factor, you sorta know where it’s going, easy to imagine and sufficiently scary.
There was another one also, Don’t feed the birds? I think? That one was good too.
Most of the other stories I genuinely could not recall the next DAY. I don’t mean now, months later, I mean the very next night when I went to finish a story I had no idea what was happening.
Another story was too gross to finish - something about squirrels and roadkill and grilling iguanas? Both the kiddo and I agreed to skip. Odd choice for a kids book.
Anyway. Wouldn’t really recommend unless you cherry pick the stories you want to read, but not bad.
I remember loving R.L. Stine as a kid, which is why I entered to win this book. In classic Stine style, we have a collection of spooky stories. There were some good twists in some of the tales. I look forward to sharing this book with my middle school students.
To begin, let me confess: I read this ONLY because of the title, which is also the title of a 1970 horror film starting Vincent Price and Christopher Lee. I am, above and beyond just about anything else, a devotee of 1) horror movies, 2) cult films, and 3) Vincent Price (and also Christopher Lee, but only horror-era. I mean, his post-horror filmography is fantastic in its own right, I'm just salty about how he renounced his horror stuff later on. Anyway), so this title *immediately* grabbed me. I have absolutely no doubt that R. L. Stine intended the homage, so that lands it at an instant 3-stars. I see you.
Stine explains in the forward that each story begins and ends with a scream, and sure enough, it's like crossing a jungle full of your standard (and often weird) horror fare on scream-vines, like a thrill-seeking Tarzan except reading. That's a neat trick...until it isn't. To their credit, the authors made it work, and I did enjoy all the twists and turns and verbal jump-scares from start to finish. It just kinda went from scream to groan over the course of the book, and that was kind of a let-down. Thumbs-up for sticking to the schtick, but dang.
HOWEVER! I'm a jaded old woman. Middle-school Steph would've eaten this UP and asked for seconds, and that's what matters here.
Stine explains in the forward that each story begins and ends with a scream, and sure enough, it's like crossing a jungle full of your standard (and often weird) horror fare on scream-vines, like a thrill-seeking Tarzan except reading. That's a neat trick...until it isn't. To their credit, the authors made it work, and I did enjoy all the twists and turns and verbal jump-scares from start to finish. It just kinda went from scream to groan over the course of the book, and that was kind of a let-down. Thumbs-up for sticking to the schtick, but dang.
HOWEVER! I'm a jaded old woman. Middle-school Steph would've eaten this UP and asked for seconds, and that's what matters here.
Cute spooky middle grade short stories. Nothing more nothing less. A solid read for the season.
mysterious
slow-paced
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