Happy Deathday to You...and Other Stories to Give You Nightmares by George E. Stanley

Coffin) as well as a number of 2000s-era Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys volumes. In Stanley's world, no child makes it to their 20s.Īuthor G(eorge) E(dward) Stanley (1942-2011) penned over 100 books for young readers from the late 1970s on, including nine entries in the mid-90s Goosebumps clone SPINETINGLERS (as M. I was most shocked/pleased by how MESSED UP ✨ALL✨ of these stories are: though written at a younger age level than most Avon Flares of the period and featuring junior high-aged protagonists, almost every story proudly features either kids who kill and/or kids being killed, always in new and absurdly inventive ways. Murderous birthday clowns, cannibal spider babies, basketball team captain vampire bats, and classified ads that KILL are all part of the deathday surprise this one has in store for curious kiddos. He died from a ruptured aneurysm on Februat the age of 68.Ī totally gnarly collection of 18 short, sharp tales of terror- none over ten pages in length- all revolving around every morbid kid's favorite subject: DEATH. He was a professor of African and Middle-Eastern languages and linguistics in the department of foreign languages at Cameron University. Dixon, Laura Lee Hope, Carolyn Keene, Adam Mills, and Stuart Symons. He wrote over 100 fiction and non-fiction books for young people including The Katie Lynn Cookie Company series and the Adam Sharp series. After writing and publishing over 200 short stories in American, British, Irish, and South African magazines and linguistics articles in major international journals, he started writing books. Three of his plays were eventually produced.

That led to his writing radio plays for a program called World Service Short Story.

He started writing fiction while a Fulbright professor in Chad, Central Africa, where about the only diversion he found available was listening to the BBC on his short wave radio. government, and writing books for young people and adults. He lived all over Europe and Africa, studying and teaching foreign languages, working for the U.S. He earned his Doctor Litterarum in African Linguistics in 1974 from the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. He received a bachelor's degree in 1965 and a master's degree in 1967 from Texas Tech University. George Edward Stanley was born in Memphis, Texas on July 15, 1942.

Happy Deathday to You...and Other Stories to Give You Nightmares by George E. Stanley