Attack of the Vampire Weenies: And Other Warped and Creepy Tales

by David Lubar

Overview

Critically acclaimed author and master of the macabre, David Lubar, is back with Attach of the Vampire Weenies, featuring thirty more warped and creepy tales for fans of his bestselling Weenies story collections.

A boy steals a ticket to an amusement park and gets the ride of a lifetime—literally. The first day of middle school turns into a free-for-all when the gym teacher offers a "get-out-of-gym-free" card. Sick of his sister's vampire wannabe friends, a kid decides to teach them a lesson at their next party. But the tables are turned when some surprise guests show up.

Don't be a weenie. Read these stories. If you dare!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250356703
Publisher:	Tor Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/24/2012
Series:	Weenies Stories
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	626,991
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.52(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

David Lubar created a sensation with his debut novel, Hidden Talents, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Thousands of kids and educators across the country have voted Hidden Talents onto over twenty state lists. David is also the author of True Talents, the sequel to Hidden Talents; Flip, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror selection; many short story collections in the Weenies and Teeny Weenies series; and the Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie series. Lubar grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, and he has also lived in New Brunswick, Edison and Piscataway, NJ, and Sacramento, CA. Besides writing, he has also worked as a video game programmer and designer. He now lives in Nazareth, Pennsylvania.

Editorial Reviews

Whoever thinks the short story is dead, or that kids don't like short stories, hasn't talked to any real live kids and hasn't read the latest in this popular series.” —School Library Journal

“Lubar keeps the pace changing and injects plenty of humor… All in all the gathering assays out as rich in eye-rollers, groans and mild chills.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Girls and boys alike will be drawn to Lubar's chilling tales and wicked sense of humor. The short stories are perfect for quick bursts of reading…[and] combines the right amount of suspense and comedy…. Perfect for setting the mood at slumber parties and spooky campfires, these tales are the next generation of ghost stories and urban legends.” —San Francisco Book Review

From the Publisher

The lead miner of the "ha-ha-horror" vein offers 33 more microtales (all but three newly minted) in a fifth Weenies collection. Most end badly for a young narrator or protagonist: In the title story plus three more, vampires triumph over obnoxious teens; in others a ghost, a malicious elf, swarming spiders and bees, all-too-omnivorous "MutAnts" and reanimated skeletons likewise snuff out the incautious or naïve. The laws of physics come into play when television-addict "Rapt Punzel" carelessly throws her huge weight of hair out a window. All humanity waxes rank and tubby after a young inventor finds a way to turn soap into candy. And a lad discovers that playground "Cooties" aren't as intangible as he thought. Lubar keeps the pace changing and injects plenty of humor—most notably and hilariously a clueless student's run of luck in a geography bee (A country on the Strait of Hormuz? "Oh, man." Oslo is the capitol of what country? "No way"). He rounds it off with a closing section of story notes; about "Cooties," he writes, "I was thinking about cooties (I have too much leisure time), and it hit me that someone has to be the last person to have them." All in all, the gathering assays out as rich in eye-rollers, groans and mild chills. (Funny horror short stories. 11-13)

Kirkus Reviews