MORE HOROWITZ HORROR (BLACK APPLES) - Softcover

Anthony Horowitz

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9781841216072: MORE HOROWITZ HORROR (BLACK APPLES)
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ISBN 10: 1841216070 ISBN 13: 9781841216072
Publisher: Orchard Books, 2000

Synopsis

It's a world where everything might seem pretty normal. But the weird, the surprising and the truly terrifying are lurking just out of sight. Like a hitchhiker who isn't quite all he seems, a spooky cottage with a grisly secret and a mobile phone that lets you contact the dead! Each story has a shocking sting in the tail...

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About the Author

Anthony Horowitz was brought up on horror stories and his childhood love of all things sinister and scary has stayed with him. He says, 'I think everyone enjoys horror. Not necessarily dead bodies and dripping blood, but the shadows that lie just outside our vision, the secrets behind closed doors.' Anthony is the author of many very successful children's books, most notably the Alex Rider series, the most recent of which, Stormseeker, achieved the No 1 spot in the Nielsen charts. Anthony is also well known as a television screen writer with credits that include Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Chiller and Foyle's War. Anthony has two grown-up sons, and lives in east London with his wife.

From Booklist

In Horowitz Horror (2006), the author of the Alex Rider series proved himself as adept at writing short horror stories as he is at writing novel-length thrillers. This second go-round, which includes nine new tales, cements his reputation in the horror genre by once again yanking young readers out of their safe, familiar world. As in the previous collection, the prose remains plain, and the stories are fashioned around the ordinary: a cell phone, an elevator, a trip on an airplane. Yet however trite seeming the literary mechanism Horowitz uses, he always manages to give it a fresh twist. The last story is more puzzle than literary construct, but it's tantalizing enough to convince even jaded readers to work out the devilish message spelled out in the text. With first lines such as "This is how Linda James dies" and "Howard Black didn't see the bus that ran him over," this collection won't stay on the shelf for long. Stephanie Zvirin
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Publisher
Orchard Books
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1841216070
ISBN 13 
9781841216072
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
192
Rating
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