More Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs

Scary Stories for Sleep-overs #2

by Q.L. Pearce, Bartt Warburton (Illustrator)

How can Steve and Jason escape the deadly clutches of a computer game? Who is Baron Trouvese and what is his chilling secret? Brave enough to find out the answers? Then More Scary Stories for Sleep-Overs is for you!

With young bullies and their demented pranks, and frightening neighbors and their even more terrifying secrets, each spine-tingling tale in More Scary Stories will captivate you until the thrilling end. Turn a camping trip or slumber party into an adventure in fright, or for the extra-fearless, read More Scary Stories alone!

Genres: Horror, Fiction, Childrens, Short Stories, Middle Grade, Paranormal, Fantasy

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 1992

About the author

Best selling author and expert on all things that go bump in the night, Q. L. Pearce began her career as a writer and editor in 1985 with Lowell House / Roxbury Press in Los Angeles. She has since written more than one hundred and twenty books for children, including eight collections of scary stories for middle grade and film tie-in books for the Fox animated film Titan AE and the Universal animated series Land Before Time. Q believes strongly in the value of scary books for young readers. When asked what credentials she has which qualify her as an expert in this area she replies, "I was a child once. That was very scary."

Reviews

[Miguel Aka · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book was very interesting, but only at night because at day people dont get scared, but at night people start to imagine things and there is when this book gets interesting
i remember one story from this book and it was about this man who was driving home on a rainy day and he sees a lovley girl on the rain waiting for the bus, so he offers her to take her to her house. on there way home they get to know each other. when they got to her house he invited her to have breakfast with her so she say"i would loved that". the next morning he comes to pick her up but instead there was an old woman in her house, he askes do you know Jasmine ( that was her name)
she say come in we need to talk. she shows a picture of jazmine, but the picture looked old, he askes the old women " why is this picture so old" she says: this was my daughter 25 years ago, she was waiting for the bus on a rainy day a car hit her and she died. the guy felt he was going to die becuase he was about to date a ghost. see what i mean by intersting to read. i give this book 4 stars

[Crazy_smiler · Rating 4 out of 5]

I first heard/read this book when I was 11. It was a slumber party where they took turns reading it out loud. It was the first kids horror book that I actually found scary. Most books especially children's books would never kill off kids but this one does. Very freaky. I loved it.

[Christy Roberts · Rating 3 out of 5]

There was more 1 stars than 5 or 4 stars some I just didn't like. 2 and 1 stars was most popular

[Simone · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm glad they changed the artist for the rest of the series, the pictures in this one were kind of goofy.

[Vonda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this collection of scary short stories very much.

[Mike MacDee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Welch passes the torch on to Q. L. Pearce, who does an admirable job keeping the Sleepovers series going for many, many volumes. Her first outing yields an impressive number of scares, and many of the stories are equally memorable compared to the originals.

The most memorable scares come from the very first story, Swimming Lessons, which is a hell of an intro to the book. The monsters are the victims of drowning, and stand in mobs on the surface of the lake, staring at anyone unlucky enough to be dragged into their territory by the ungodly current. When their victims are just beginning to realize that they're not entirely human, they slip beneath the waves...and moments later drag them to their watery deaths, turning them into new members of their horrible species. The first encounter with the creatures is the stuff of nightmares for a nine-year-old kid.

The Box is a pretty interesting one, if a bit weird since it involves a trio of friends discovering lost artifacts of a crashed UFO.

Nightmare is pretty cute, despite the title.

Crying Wolf concerns an overly-creative author's discovery that those shapes you see moving in the corner of your eye are actually vile creatures that will make you disappear if you notice them too well. One of the creepiest stories in the series: most who have read the Sleepovers books remember this one with dread.

The Lesson is a pretty good one about a girl who befriends an awful, awful creature that comes tap-tap-tapping at her window one night.


Pearce's other Sleepover installments were hit or miss, but this is a solid first effort that belongs on the shelf next to the original anthology.

[James Gonzalez · Rating 5 out of 5]

The stories are really spooky.The art is creepy. If you don't want to be scared the book is categorized and will tell you if they are meant to be funny ,spooky to surprise friends and more. I love how this is organized at the back of the books it explains what the story meant or what happend at the end . I really love it

[Jenni · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is actually a lot scarier than the "Scary stories to tell in the dark" books. One of the stories from it called "Crying Wolf" has haunted me for years haha. There is violence and actual deaths of kids in these stories sometimes too.

[Hans Christian]

bought this book when i was a around 9 or 10. i've probably read it at least 20 times.

[Sal4gal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good for all ages!

[Patrick · Rating 2 out of 5]

Old Children's Book. Liked it as a kid, but haven't read it in years.