"The Legend of Anna Barton"
(Number of the Beast, Scholastic, fall 2007)

It's the 100th anniversary of Anna Barton's death, the girl who supposedly haunts Schillington Prep (more commonly known as Chillington or Shrillington), a co-ed boarding school in New England. Anna used to be a student at Schillington, but when she found out her boyfriend was cheating on her, and there was no one around to offer any support or consolation, she scribbled the words "You shouldn't have left me alone!" across her dorm room wall -- shortly before she killed herself.

Legend has it that, now, every twenty-five years following Anna's death, someone on campus will die.

So far, that legend holds true.

While most of the students abandon the campus for the anniversary weekend, one group decides to stick around to see if Anna's legend will continue to live on.

Number of the Beast brings together the best of today's horror writers in one spine-tingling collection. All of these stories are guaranteed to terrify! So lock the door. Turn on the lights. Don't answer the phone. Open the book...if you dare...

"Sleeping with the Spirit"
(Love is Hell, HarperCollins, fall 2008)

Description coming soon.