Bites: Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into / Bones: Terrifying Tales to Haunt Your Dreams

by Lois Metzger (Editor), Neal Shusterman (Contributor), Terry Black (Contributor)

A flip book featuring 2009's Bites: Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into and 2010's Bones: Terrifying Tales to Haunt Your Dreams.

Genres: Vampires, Fiction, Fantasy

212 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Lois Metzger was born in Queens, New York City. Three of her five young-adult novels take place in Belle Heights, an invented Queens neighborhood that is boring on purpose to stand in stark contrast to the dramatic life of her characters. She has also written two nonfiction books about the Holocaust, and has edited five anthologies of original short stories. She lives near Washington Square Park in New York with her husband, son, and a tuxedo cat. Someone once told her that black-and-white cats were the best, which she thought made no sense. Now she's a believer.

Reviews

[Beverly Whitt · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book ended up being a DNF. I just couldn't get into the stories.

[Sanaayah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this sometime ago in like February. I like how it's different stories in one, well, two books. It's not all that scary, just a little suspenseful. I like it

[Dakota · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of these definitely fall outside the realm of plausibility, but they're all fun nonetheless.

[Rich Meyer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was loaned a copy of this by a young neighbor and figured, what the heck? Might as well give it a try ... it's good for a writer to read ALL genres of literature.

Given the YA nature of the book, these stories were actually quite good.I really enjoyed Anasazi Breakdown, the Skeleton Keeper, and Perpetual Pest, which stood out as both creepy and fun to read.And I also read a story by R.L. Stine, an author who started having hits when I was already in college, for the first time, and it was pretty darn good.

I'd give most of these authors another read.

[Christie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The stories were really cute and my son seemed to enjoy them as well. My favorite side to read was Bites, but I liked all the stories included. I also like how they included about the authors after each section.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm biased against short stories. I've never really liked them. On the other hand, I adore ghost stories.

Some of the stories were better than others (more to my taste). None were bad. Some were some real thinkers.

I'll be recommending this book for Halloween season.

[Katherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you love supernatural phenomena, this book is a lovely collection of scary stories. It will keep you up all night (in the best possible way) and leave you wanting to read more.

[Aimee · Rating 3 out of 5]

These stories weren't particularly good. The better side was Bites. The story I liked best was I, bloodier.

[Kaylee Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably for younger people, but pretty cool stories.