Children's Fiction Horror & Ghost Stories
Evil Eye
- Publisher
- Star Crossed Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2012
- Category
- Horror & Ghost Stories
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780986791406
- Publish Date
- Oct 2012
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
From the 2013 Red Maple Award nominated author of You Just Can’t Help It!
Jake knew that a field trip to the cemetery would lead to bad things. Bad things like an angry class bully. Bad things like a mysterious tombstone. Bad things like a scratched eyeball.
Most scratched eyeballs heal up in no time. They don’t pop out of their sockets or float in the air or help you cheat on your math test. And they almost never go off in search of revenge.
Now Jake’s eyeball has a mind of its own, and it’s up to Jake to find out what it’s after and why. Whatever it is, it’s something ancient. Something evil.
About the author
JEFF SZPIRGLAS is the author of multiple books in the Countdown to Danger series. In addition to his choose-your-own-path titles, Jeff has written award-nominated non-fiction books and several terrifying novels and horror collections for middle-grade readers, including Tales from the Fringes of Fear and Tales from Beyond the Brain. With his wife, Danielle Saint-Onge, he is the co-author of the Orca Echoes books X Marks the Spot!, Something's Fishy and Messy Miranda. He's worked at CTV Television and was an editor at Chirp, chickaDEE and Owl magazines. He has twin children, two cats (the cats are not twins) and one dog. In his spare time, he teaches elementary school. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario. Visit him online at www.jeffszpirglas.com.
Excerpt: Evil Eye (by (author) Jeff Szpirglas)
Evil Eye
It was the middle of the night, and Jake’s eye was on the run.
Well, no. Not running. That would be silly. More like floating.
Also, Jake’s eye wasn’t in his head anymore. Big problem.
The bicycle wobbled as Jake pedalled madly. He pumped his legs up and down. The bike tore down the street, whizzing past stop signs. Ahead, the eye rounded a curve. Jake tried to take it as quickly as the eye, and nearly flew over the handlebars. He hit the brakes and burned a layer of rubber off on the road.
The back tire pushed forward, and Jake had to plant his feet to keep from pitching off the bike.
Up ahead, the eye stopped just under a streetlight.
It hovered in the air like a dragonfly, and turned around to stare at Jake.
Jake shivered.
He could see everything the eye saw. He stood frozen on his bike, watching himself watch himself. The two images bled together. It was hard to separate them. Humans weren’t meant to see this way.
Then the eye turned and pressed back into the night. Jake let out a groan, then pushed himself back up on the bike. He pedalled on.
It was almost as if the eye wanted Jake to follow it. Why else would it keep to the streets?
Why else would it stop to let him catch up?
Jake sped on. The road dropped down to a hill, and Jake pedalled as if his life depended on it. The bike raced down the street, picking up as much speed as a car might. The wind tore at his hair and whipped his shirt into ruffles. He squinted his empty eye socket closed and held out his hand. His fingertips were just inches away from the white orb that belonged back in his skull.
He almost had it. Just a few inches more —
The eye swerved out of the way.
It was playing with him.
And Jake knew where it was leading him.
Back to the cemetery. Jake’s head was full of questions, but the biggest one still wasn’t answered.
Why?
Editorial Reviews
"Some kids have been waiting their entire lives for a book about a floating eyeball, even if they didn't know it. This is that book" —KIRKUS
"Evil Eye is wonderfully creepy and creative. Don't blink.' —David Lubar, author of Enter the Zombie
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