Extremities

Extremities by David Lubar, 205 pages

This is a collection of short, creepy stories.  These are actually pretty scary and a little gory at times.  I liked all of the stories, although a couple were so short, they were almost unsatisfying because I wanted just a little more.  But even the very short stories told a complete story.  One of my favorites was Blood Magic, in which a boy and an acquaintance are caught in a robbery gone bad and taken as hostages by the robbers, who have shot the store clerk.  The narrator is sure that he and his companion, Eddy, are going to die, but Eddy has a trick up his own sleeve.  Of course, Eddy’s tricks could kill them as easily as the robbers’ guns.  Not all of the stories have a supernatural bent either.  The first story, Running Out Of Air, is about a group of high school girls that exact their revenge on a sadistic gym teacher.  This book will appeal to teens who like horror fiction.