This is most worrying. The monsters are trying to change their public image by spin. Look at the commercial packaging on the new board game the monsters have snuck onto the market. The following is a direct quote: What’s a Monster to do? For 2 to 4 players Let’s face it! Monsters are horribly misunderstood… [...]
Archive > November 2009
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
According to this article at my favourite film website, Twitch, yesterday was the fifty-fifth birthday of one of the most famous and greatest (not to say biggest and angriest) monsters of them all…. GODZILLA! …AND WE FORGOT! No presents, no cake, not even a card for him – nothing. Run away! Run away very fast! [...]
Grave News
Here’s a short, instructional video explaining how to enter this month’s Quest, and win the chance to become a character in a future Scream Street book: Find out more at: http://www.watchthemgrow.co.uk/quest.html Tommy
Monsters are everywhere!
Maybe it’s just me. Maybe being in here has made me paranoid, but these days I’m seeing monsters everywhere. Including on the covers of Brazilian parenting magazines. Whatever that thing is, someone needs to hit it with a shovel right now.
The Bacon Tree
My jailer has been in a terrible mood recently. In the end I thought I’d better try cheering him up with a joke or two. The first few fell flat, but he seemed to like this one. I’ve got a horrible feeling that what he liked about it was the human suffering involved. Two Mexicans [...]
JETHRO’S ACE OF HEARTS – Slice 2 of 13
JETHRO’S ACE OF HEARTS a thirteen-part story, EXCLUSIVE to Trapped By Monsters story (c) Sam Enthoven / illustrations (c) David Melling, 2009. All rights reserved. (Click here for Slice One) -Second Slice- ‘So sorry to trouble you,’ Mr Theophilus continued, his green eyes twinkling kindly. ‘But I couldn’t help noticing that t-shirt you’re wearing. It’s [...]
Become A Character In Scream Street
Have you ever wanted to appear as a character in a book? Well here’s your chance! Renaissance Learning are running a Quest with each challenge set by a children’s author – and this month, it’s me! All you have to do is imagine that you wake up one day to discover you’ve turned into a [...]
Running the Risk
The monsters have been running me ragged recently. I’ve been racing from one event to another, with little time to grab more than a bite to eat and a few hours of sleep in the corner of my cell. However, I have managed to sneak occasional snatches of reading in here and there and have [...]
DRACULA RETURNS!
Halloween may be over, but why stop scaring yourself? There is a new Dracula story out there in the form of a graphic novel entitled HARKER.
STOP ME
I’ve not written many real ghost stories, but this is one I did for Scholastic’s fabulous Wow 366! book, in which hundreds of children’s authors (including Andy Briggs and Barry Hutchison) wrote stories of exactly 366 words in length for the National Year of Reading and to raise money for Childline. The seed of this [...]
