Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires

Ben Acker

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN:
  9781665917025
• Print ISBN:
  9781665917018

This fourth wall–breaking middle grade collection of spooky, scary, and spoopy stories for fans of Lemony Snicket and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark might just help you survive the night in a house full of vampires. If you are reading this book, then you must be trapped in that spooky house with those vampires. Sorry about that.But! You might just make it out if you manage to tell them one scary story each night in accordance with standard vampire rules. Don't know any scary stories? Good thing you found this book! Every tale in this tome is true…more or less (more more than less).You get a little bit of everything in this monster mash: from hitchhiking phantoms to women in white, a carnivore beast that loves a good vacation to a haunted mannequin with a bug problem, killer phones, concerned werewolves, you name it. Everything you need to keep those vampires on the edge of their seats—and well away from your neck.But beware…don't get too comfortable. Names have power, and if you whisper about too many things in the dark, they might just hear you.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• 1. The Phantom of the Hitchhiker: The Hitchhiker Who Was the Phantom of a Hitchhiker
• 2. Diagnosis: Wolf
• 3. Thicker than Water
• 4. The Chase
• 5. Thumbs Don’t Lie
• 6. Mr. Birdclock
• 7. Love and Lockets
• 8. Journey’s End
• 9. Home Alone
• 10. Don’t Stop Be Evil-ing
• 11. Rap-Tappa-Tap!
• 12. The Woman in White
• 13. The Deadly Chore
• 14. Criminal Behavior
• 15. Aiieeee Phone
• 16. The Ribbon Tale Told
• 17. The Sad, Sad Story of the 100% Killer
• 18. The Most Dangerous Game
• 19. Another Story in this Very Volume
• 20. More in Store
• 21. Best Friends Forever
• 22. Two Summers Later
• 23. One Last Story
• And with that…
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright