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Ameri-Scares Montana: Ghosts in the Dust

By Elizabeth Massie
Ameri-Scares Montana: Ghosts in the Dust by Elizabeth Massie digital book - Fable

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Cascade County, Montana…

Middle schoolers Johnel Walker, Tony Walker, and Elliot Green have formed a summer book club. They gather beneath a shady tree twice a week in the Walkers' backyard to read, discuss, and trade the books they've selected. Usually, the club members agree on the chosen books.

But when Elliot shows them a crusty, dirt-coated, ancient book he discovered in an abandoned cabin and says it's one they should read next, Johnel and Tony aren't impressed. They want Elliot to put the book back. Yet the book—or what's inside it—has other ideas.

It seems there are terrifying, red-eyed ghosts of people from the past anxious to get out of the book and into present day. Elliot, Johnel, and Tony find there is nothing they can do to stop them from emerging. And so, the club members must face the ghosts, figure out what they want, and try to stop the menace.

Each Ameri-Scares novel is based on or inspired by an actual historical event, folktale, or legend specific to the state in which the story is set.

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About Elizabeth Massie

Elizabeth Massie is an award-winning author of horror novels and collections, short horror fiction, licensed media tie-ins (Dark Shadows, The Tudors, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more), mainstream fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and educational fiction and nonfiction. Her works span a wide audience, with books for adults, young adults, middle grade readers and children, as well. Her novella "Stephen" (1991) and novel Sineater (1993) both received a Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers of America. Thy Will Be Done, her 2010 novelization of the third season of Showtime's original television series, The Tudors, won a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. Best selling author Bentley Little has said, "Elizabeth Massie is personally one of my favorite authors. Her writing is true, heartfelt, and wildly original. She is one of the greats."

Elizabeth presents creative writing workshops up and down the East Coast to students in grades 3-12 as well as at the university level. She's been a member of the human rights organization Amnesty International for 30 years. Elizabeth loves geocaching, hiking, and chai, and hates cheese, snobbery, and doing laundry.

She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where she was born and grew up, and she shares life and abode with her husband, illustrator/artist Cortney Skinner. She can be reached through her website: www.elizabethmassie.com or through Facebook.

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