Beware, Beware! Monster Movie! Is Now Playing!

And away we go! Out now: Monster Movie!, my next middle grade horror from LBYR (Little Brown Young Readers) — let’s get your procurement services out of the way, shall we?

Signed, personalized books can be ordered from Doylestown Bookshop!

The End Bookstore / Let’s Play Books should also have some signed copies, though they won’t be personalized, so order from this great store.

Of course — your favorite indie bookstore is always an excellent choice, as is Bookshop, B&N, Amazon, Kobo, Apple, Libro.fm, Audible, and so forth.

And don’t forget your local library! They may carry it and if they don’t, you can request that they do, because libraries are awesome like that.

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In this hair-raising and hilarious novel by New York Times bestselling author Chuck Wendig, a boy must face his many fears to save his town from a cursed videotape—before “The Scariest Movie Ever Made” devours his friends and family.

Ethan Pitowski is afraid of everything. Luckily, his best friends don’t mind, and when their entire class gets invited to watch a long-buried horror movie at the most popular boy in school’s house, Ethan’s friends encourage him to join in the fun. But when the “scariest movie ever made” reveals itself to be not just a movie about a monster, but a movie that is a monster, only a terrified Ethan escapes its clutches. Now he must find a way to stop the monster and save his friends (and also, um, get their heads back).

With his signature balance of kid-friendly horror and humor, Chuck Wendig crafts a spookily heartfelt novel about anxiety, friendship, and finding your unique voice and inner strength.

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Is it good that pretty much every professional reviewer has compared it to Goosebumps? I hope so. It’s certainly an honor to be compared as such.

Why’d I write this book? Hey, as a kid, I was scared of everything, and weirdly, I was extra scared of horror movies — not just of the content of the movies but of the movies themselves, as if they had outsized power merely by existing. My sister told me about THE SCARIEST MOVIE EVER, aka, The Exorcist, and how people were like, dying in the theaters because it was so scary, so suddenly horror movies to me became as much a monster as the monsters they contained — if a film could scare you so badly you died of fright, that’s horrifying! And I thought, okay, well, that’s an angle for sure.

Also, there are a lot of decapitations in this books, so have fun with that.

It’s fine. I promise. It’s umm, it’s fine.

*clears throat*

ANYWAY, hope your kids enjoy it, hope you enjoy it, hope you check it out.

BYE