The Spooky Book
This book is currently out of print and is not available for purchase.
Written by Steve Patschke / Illustrations by Matt McElligott
1999, Walker and Co.
Paperback ISBN: 080278870X
Lightning cracks, thunder rumbles, the wind howls, and shadows creep, creep, creep up the wall as Andrew and Zo Zo read spooky books on a dark and stormy night, two books that may be connected in ways that even they can’t imagine.
“In this Hitchcockian thriller-within-a-thriller, “Andrew shook as he opened the cover of a spooky book.” The sepia pages show a girl opening the same tome. Odd coincidences continue. If lightning startles the girl, a flash startles Andrew. Stranger still, they both scan the mirror image of this very volume. McElligott (The Truth About Cousin Ernie’s Head) strategically uses color to signal scene changes, and his perspectives are agreeably vertiginous. ”
