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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.
"Stories to Keep You Alive Despite Vampires" is a great collection of creepy, funny, chilling and laugh-inducing fiction. It plays off classic tales with fun twists, introduces new eerie stories and weaves between stand alone and interconnected plots in a great read for ages 9 and up.I could easily see this as a Halloween staple, especially read aloud to kids during October. But it's not just a seasonal book; there's plenty of evergreen in the chapters for anyone who loves a witty smart tale where you can't tell where it's going to go even if you think you know the story being told. Classic spookiness throughout.As in the best of short story collections each story is satisfying, but you wouldn't mind spending more time in several because Ben Acker sets up a fun little universe of monsters and spooks throughout the book. It's like if "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" was smarter, funnier and didn't end every story with jumping at the people you're reading to. (Though I suppose you can still do the last one if you want.)Highly recommend.