Master of the macabre David Lubar turns his attention to dark and twisted tales for teens with Extremities: Stories of Death, Murder, and Revenge
A group of high school girls takes revenge on their sadistic gym teacher in the most fitting way possible. Two stowaways find themselves on a ship for the dead. An ancient predator stalks the wrong victim. Here are thirteen tales of death, murder, and revenge from the fertile and febrile imagination of master storyteller David Lubar—his first story collection for the teen audience.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
**
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up-Many of these stories were previous published in other collections, and are brought together here for the first time. The teen characters face ghosts, monsters, haunted houses, and murder. Some selections have a realistic premise. In "Apparent Motives," a boy creates a plan to kill his father and make it look as though the man ran away, but the trail leads the police straight to his mother. Other stories have more occult appeal. In "Blood Magic," two boys find themselves in the middle of a robbery and are taken hostage. Eddie's plan to escape is to use monsters he creates with his own blood to kill their captors. All he has to do is start bleeding enough to create them. The content gets pretty graphic so this book is best suited for an older audience. Most of these tales are short enough to memorize and tell around a campfire. A solid choice for collections in need of more horror stories.-Erik Carlson, White Plains Public Library, NYα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
Definitely not for the faint of heart or easily scared, Lubar’s latest collection of the macabre and cruel is designed to make the hairs on the back of one’s neck stand up—and they do. Opening with a gasping wheeze, “Running Out of Air” takes the classic hated-teacher, subjugated-students scenario and spins an ending far more ghastly than anything Teaching Mrs. Tingle dreamed up. In “Split Decision,” a boy’s hatred of the baby soon to be born to his father and his father’s new wife casts an eerie echo of the rending finale. “Feelings” plays off the succubus myth, building slowly to an unexpected twist ending. The endless reality-show craze is mined in “Patterns of Fear” when an arrogant young participant matches wits with his opponents in a so-called haunted house. Although most of the 13 stories are quite brief, Lubar employs savvy language skills that milk every possible drop of horror out of a few words in this compulsively readable collection. Grades 8-11. --Julie Trevelyan
Description:
Master of the macabre David Lubar turns his attention to dark and twisted tales for teens with Extremities: Stories of Death, Murder, and Revenge
A group of high school girls takes revenge on their sadistic gym teacher in the most fitting way possible. Two stowaways find themselves on a ship for the dead. An ancient predator stalks the wrong victim. Here are thirteen tales of death, murder, and revenge from the fertile and febrile imagination of master storyteller David Lubar—his first story collection for the teen audience.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. **
From School Library Journal
Gr 9 Up-Many of these stories were previous published in other collections, and are brought together here for the first time. The teen characters face ghosts, monsters, haunted houses, and murder. Some selections have a realistic premise. In "Apparent Motives," a boy creates a plan to kill his father and make it look as though the man ran away, but the trail leads the police straight to his mother. Other stories have more occult appeal. In "Blood Magic," two boys find themselves in the middle of a robbery and are taken hostage. Eddie's plan to escape is to use monsters he creates with his own blood to kill their captors. All he has to do is start bleeding enough to create them. The content gets pretty graphic so this book is best suited for an older audience. Most of these tales are short enough to memorize and tell around a campfire. A solid choice for collections in need of more horror stories.-Erik Carlson, White Plains Public Library, NYα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
Definitely not for the faint of heart or easily scared, Lubar’s latest collection of the macabre and cruel is designed to make the hairs on the back of one’s neck stand up—and they do. Opening with a gasping wheeze, “Running Out of Air” takes the classic hated-teacher, subjugated-students scenario and spins an ending far more ghastly than anything Teaching Mrs. Tingle dreamed up. In “Split Decision,” a boy’s hatred of the baby soon to be born to his father and his father’s new wife casts an eerie echo of the rending finale. “Feelings” plays off the succubus myth, building slowly to an unexpected twist ending. The endless reality-show craze is mined in “Patterns of Fear” when an arrogant young participant matches wits with his opponents in a so-called haunted house. Although most of the 13 stories are quite brief, Lubar employs savvy language skills that milk every possible drop of horror out of a few words in this compulsively readable collection. Grades 8-11. --Julie Trevelyan