LoveReading4Kids Says
LoveReading4Kids Says
A spine-tingling collection of fearful stories, cleverly framed by an equally chilling storytelling device. Twelve story tellers sit around the table leaving one chair empty and one story still to be told. Each lit only by a single candle, one by one the storytellers deliver their sometimes bloodthirsty, sometimes mysterious and always creepy stories. When finished they each blow their candle out. As the room gets darker the atmosphere gets more terrifying. Who will tell the last story? A brilliant collection for those who love shivery stories.
A Piece of Passion from Publisher, David Fickling “We timed this book just ahead of Halloween yet, in fact, it has all-year-round appeal for children of nine years and upward. We love the fact that the focus of the book is on story-telling itself - a clever trick that layers on the chilling irony of the plot as it unfolds. Dave Shelton is an extraordinarily versatile and clever author and his second book with DFB is such a tour de force.”
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Thirteen Chairs Synopsis
Jack is a curious boy and finds himself drawn into an empty haunted house by light flickering under the heavy wooden door. Pushing it open, he finds a dark room
dominated by a round wooden table and twinkling candles in front of twelve seated ghoulish strangers. He is offered the thirteenth chair by a luminously pale man, one of the twelve overseeing the proceedings. It seems as if Jack has been expected – but expected for what?
As the night draws on the pale man asks the assembled figures to tell their stories – each one more ghostly and ghastly than the preceding one, each one more bloodcurdlingly gruesome and supernaturally strange, and each one ending in the death of the subject. After every story, the storyteller must extinguish the candle flame in front of them. Until, finally, there is only one candle left burning – in front of Jack.
This chilling set of spooky stories is a kind of ghostly Canterbury Tales, beautifully and blackly crafted. Each story also carries a full-page illustration by the author, who won the 2013 Branford Boase Award for his charmingly-illustrated mini epic, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat.
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9781910200162 |
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4th September 2014 |
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Dave Shelton |
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David Fickling Books |
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Hardback |
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244 pages |
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About Dave Shelton
Born and raised in Leicester, Dave now lives in Suffolk with a brilliant woman, a beautiful girl, a bonkers dog and an inexcusable cat.
He is the author/illustrator of the middle grade fiction series Emily Lime: Librarian Detective, and creator of the slapstick comedy noir comic strip Good Dog, Bad Dog, as seen in the DFC, Guardian and The Phoenix.
His debut prose novel for children, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat, which he also illustrated, was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal, and won the Branford Boase Award.
He is fond of cake.
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