Synopses & Reviews
The seventeen original stories in Defy the Dark, an eerie, mind-bending YA anthology, could only take place in darkness.
Open the pages and discover: A creepy guy who stares too long. The secrets of the core of the earth. Dreams of other peoples lives. A girl who goes mad in the darkness. Monsters in Bavaria. A generational spaceship where night doesnt exist. And other mysteries and oddities.
The contributors to the enthralling collection are: Sarah Rees Brennan, Tessa Gratton, Rachel Hawkins, Christine Johnson, Valerie Kemp, Malinda Lo, Myra McEntire, Saundra Mitchell, Sarah Ockler, Jackson Pearce, Aprilynne Pike, Dia Reeves, Beth Revis, Carrie Ryan, Jon Skovron, Courtney Summers, and Kate Espy, winner of the Defy the Dark new author contest.
Review
With contributions that range from frightening to romantic, action-driven to lyrical, there should be something here for everyone. School Library Journal
Review
The menace of darkness in these stories is...more campfire shivers than real danger, but thats precisely the appeal. ALA Booklist
Review
The collections range of genres, from science fiction to vampire stories to realism, gives it broad appeal. Bulletin of the Center for Children & #8217;s Books
Synopsis
In the dark, nothing—and nowhere— is off-limits, and anything can happen. Saundra Mitchell presents original stories of the dangers, possibilities, and hopes born of darkness by . . .
Sarah Rees Brennan
Kate Espey
Tessa Gratton
Rachel Hawkins
Christine Johnson
Valerie Kemp
Malinda Lo
Myra Mcentire
Saundra Mitchell
Sarah Ockler
Jackson Pearce
Aprilynne Pike
Dia Reeves
Beth Revis
Carrie Ryan
Jon Skovron
Courtney Summers
About the Author
Saundra Mitchell has been a phone psychic, a car salesperson, a denture deliverer, and a layout waxer. She's dodged trains, endured basic training, and hitchhiked from Montana to California. She is also the author of
Shadowed Summer and the Elementals series, and she always picks truth; dare is too easy.
Aprilynne Pike has been spinning stories since she was a child with a hyperactive imagination. She completed her BA in creative writing at the age of twenty at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. Aprilynne currently lives with her husband and children in Arizona.
Sarah Rees Brennan was born and raised in Ireland. After earning her master's in creative writing in New York and doing library work in Surrey, England, she has returned to Dublin, Ireland, to write. She is the author of the novels The Demon's Lexicon, The Demon's Covenant, and The Demon's Surrender, and her short story "Let's Get This Undead Show on the Road" appears in the collection Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions.