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259 pp.
| Holt |
June, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8050-8171-8$16.95
(3)
YA
Illustrated by
Coleman Polhemus.
A budding horror writer prone to panic attacks enters his favorite author's writing contest, which requires him and four other teen finalists to spend a night telling stories in the titular haunted house. Each story is revealing of the person relating it, while the stories-within-a-story plot structure is mined for maximum tension and, as finalists start disappearing, plenty of chills.