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13 Stories After Dark: The Beginning
Paperback
Series: 13 Stories After Dark, Book 1
General Juvenile FictionHorror
Publisher: Kalpanika Publishing
Published: Aug 24 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Thirteen children sat in a circle and dared the shy one to tell a ghost story. He made one up. When the lights came back on, there were fourteen children in the room.
Every legend had a first night.
There's a boy in every class photograph at one school going back thirty years, and he is always eleven years old. There's a fourth door in a bathroom that only has three stalls, and something behind it has been knocking since 1978. There's a school kitchen where the Friday soup makes you remember something wonderful - and one afternoon a new cook uses the whole tin.
Thirteen scary stories for readers aged 9-12.
These aren't retellings of urban legends. They're the stories of how each one started - what actually happened, to a real person, before anybody knew there was a rule.
And every one of them leaves you with a rule of your own:
▪ If your classroom has a desk nobody sits at, leave it where it is.
▪ If you hear knocking from an empty stall, don't ask it anything. Just tell it you're there.
▪ Never eat anything that isn't on the menu.
Inside:
▪ 13 complete stories, 10-20 minutes each - one per night
▪ 13 full-page black-and-white illustrations
▪ A hidden mystery running through all thirteen, solvable only if you read every one
▪ Real chills and real consequences - no gore, no violence, nothing that needs a grown-up in the room
New to the series? Start here. The Beginning stands completely alone - but it's also where everything in 13 Stories After Dark comes from.
Perfect for confident readers, reluctant readers, sleepovers, campfires and long dark car journeys.
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