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The final instalment in the Book of Screams series.
Tanya and Niah lure writer Joel Southland to a local coffee shop to find out his scheme. But soon, customers are collapsing around them, lulled into an unnatural sleep-Southland's (and the evil ink's) doing. When Southland tells Tanya he needs her help to draw the ink back to its origins, it seems her only option. However, the ink is cunning. And it will take all Tanya's smarts to try to trap it...or else she might be trapped herself.
Woven into the main story are other nightmares the ink has been collecting, including a story of a boy haunted by the long hair clogging a drain, two friends hoping to get famous by livestreaming their hot-pepper-eating challenge, and Gory Gary, a gruesome ghoul who pops up instead of Bloody Mary because he's bored. It's a mix of frights and chills and laughs, perfect for middle-grade readers.
Key Selling Points
• In this last instalment of the Book of Screams series, Tanya has one final chance to trap the evil ink-unless it traps her first. Other stories include two friends going too far for internet fame, a boy whose count to infinity renders him all-powerful, and a bored ghoul visiting the mall.
• Jeff Szpirglas has again concocted a thrilling mix of scares, from monsters to body horror to classroom frights, along with a dash of humor, perfect for middle-grade readers.
• This final book in the trilogy gives us a fitting finale to the ongoing Tanya story-the stakes are bigger and no one (even Tanya) is safe.
• Andrew P. Barr has provided spine-chilling illustrations, one to accompany each story.
• The first book in the series, Book of Screams, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and a nominee for the BC Young Readers' Choice Awards in the Red Cedar category and the Forest of Reading Red Maple Award.
• Jeff Szpirglas is a horror aficionado and middle-grade teacher known for his creepy middle-grade reads, including Tales from the Fringes of Fear, Tales from Beyond the Brain and the Countdown to Danger series.
This third and final instalment in the Book of Screams series includes stories about a child who finds a cell phone that traps him in time, a monster fish disguised as a parent, and Gory Gary, who materializes instead of Bloody Mary. Finally, it's up to Tanya to stop the evil ink before it conquers the world!
Jeff Szpirglas is the author of several works for young people, including the horror collections Book of Screams, Pages of Doom, Tales from Beyond the Brain and Tales from the Fringes of Fear. He is also the co-author, with Danielle Saint-Onge, of a number of Orca Echoes titles, including Super Switch and Shark Bait!. Jeff has worked at CTV and was an editor at Chirp, Chickadee and Owl magazines. In his spare time, he teaches grade school. Jeff lives with his family in Kitchener, Ontario.
Andrew P. Barr is an illustrator whose work has appeared in magazines, newspapers and movies, as well as on movie posters and T-shirts. In 2022 the book Wild Outside, which he illustrated, won the Yellow Cedar Award and the Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada's Information Book Award. Andrew lives in Oakville, Ontario. The Book of Screams series features short horror stories for middle-grade readers, ranging from gross to terrifying, with an overarching narrative of Tanya, a girl trying to vanquish an evil, sentient ink that steals the nightmares of those around her.
"Fans of Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will delight in Jeff Szpirglas's gruesomely twisted tales of mayhem and madness." It's Tanya's last chance to save the world...
"An eerie joy to explore. Sure to grab the attention of any horror fan."
"The final chapter in Szpirglas' freaky middle-grade series keeps the chills coming. Interspersed throughout are stomach-turning and disturbing stories elevated by Barr's equally dark drawings. As icky and unsettling as it gets: a solid ending to
Tanya and Niah lure writer Joel Southland to a local coffee shop to find out his scheme. But soon, customers are collapsing around them, lulled into an unnatural sleep-Southland's (and the evil ink's) doing. When Southland tells Tanya he needs her help to draw the ink back to its origins, it seems her only option. However, the ink is cunning. And it will take all Tanya's smarts to try to trap it...or else she might be trapped herself.
Woven into the main story are other nightmares the ink has been collecting, including a story of a boy haunted by the long hair clogging a drain, two friends hoping to get famous by livestreaming their hot-pepper-eating challenge, and Gory Gary, a gruesome ghoul who pops up instead of Bloody Mary because he's bored. It's a mix of frights and chills and laughs, perfect for middle-grade readers.
Key Selling Points
• In this last instalment of the Book of Screams series, Tanya has one final chance to trap the evil ink-unless it traps her first. Other stories include two friends going too far for internet fame, a boy whose count to infinity renders him all-powerful, and a bored ghoul visiting the mall.
• Jeff Szpirglas has again concocted a thrilling mix of scares, from monsters to body horror to classroom frights, along with a dash of humor, perfect for middle-grade readers.
• This final book in the trilogy gives us a fitting finale to the ongoing Tanya story-the stakes are bigger and no one (even Tanya) is safe.
• Andrew P. Barr has provided spine-chilling illustrations, one to accompany each story.
• The first book in the series, Book of Screams, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and a nominee for the BC Young Readers' Choice Awards in the Red Cedar category and the Forest of Reading Red Maple Award.
• Jeff Szpirglas is a horror aficionado and middle-grade teacher known for his creepy middle-grade reads, including Tales from the Fringes of Fear, Tales from Beyond the Brain and the Countdown to Danger series.
This third and final instalment in the Book of Screams series includes stories about a child who finds a cell phone that traps him in time, a monster fish disguised as a parent, and Gory Gary, who materializes instead of Bloody Mary. Finally, it's up to Tanya to stop the evil ink before it conquers the world!
Jeff Szpirglas is the author of several works for young people, including the horror collections Book of Screams, Pages of Doom, Tales from Beyond the Brain and Tales from the Fringes of Fear. He is also the co-author, with Danielle Saint-Onge, of a number of Orca Echoes titles, including Super Switch and Shark Bait!. Jeff has worked at CTV and was an editor at Chirp, Chickadee and Owl magazines. In his spare time, he teaches grade school. Jeff lives with his family in Kitchener, Ontario.
Andrew P. Barr is an illustrator whose work has appeared in magazines, newspapers and movies, as well as on movie posters and T-shirts. In 2022 the book Wild Outside, which he illustrated, won the Yellow Cedar Award and the Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada's Information Book Award. Andrew lives in Oakville, Ontario. The Book of Screams series features short horror stories for middle-grade readers, ranging from gross to terrifying, with an overarching narrative of Tanya, a girl trying to vanquish an evil, sentient ink that steals the nightmares of those around her.
"Fans of Goosebumps and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will delight in Jeff Szpirglas's gruesomely twisted tales of mayhem and madness." It's Tanya's last chance to save the world...
"An eerie joy to explore. Sure to grab the attention of any horror fan."
"The final chapter in Szpirglas' freaky middle-grade series keeps the chills coming. Interspersed throughout are stomach-turning and disturbing stories elevated by Barr's equally dark drawings. As icky and unsettling as it gets: a solid ending to
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