Oddest Yet
Even More Stories to Chill the Heart

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Capturing the imagination and hearts of mystery/horror readers is really quite simple: Great Storytelling. Give readers characters they can identify with — folks just like me — then weave them into a storyline so compelling they can't break away. That’s what master storyteller Steve Burt does in tale after tale, book after book. His stories whisper PSST, PSSST, PSSSST until you can’t ignore them any longer—so you come closer —and that’s when they grab you by the scruff of the neck and take off running with you in tow. If you haven’t traveled the dark side with Steve Burt before, grab a flashlight.. And be sure to pack a pocketful of batteries.
— Screaming Readers

Steve Burt, an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ, admits that he grew up on Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Weird Tales, and loved strange stories as a kid. As a church camp director, he often told the kids scary stories around the campfire in the evening, many of which were his own creations. This led to him writing a series of Odd short stories with older elementary and middle school kids in mind.

The stories are scary fun, not written to keep kids up at night looking for the boogeyman in the closet or under the bed. Oddest Yet is the fourth in the series of anthologies, and is what some readers would call "decaffeinated horror"… there isn't any blood or gore, and profanity is limited to damn and the occasional hell (only used as expressions of surprise from the characters). The Power of the Pen is a standout story about a brother and sister who grew up in Salem, Massachusetts and are trying to suppress a dark secret from their childhood… But dark secrets always have a way of resurfacing (and causing a lot of unfortunate accidents)!
— Staci Wilson, Your Guide to Horror Books and Movies - www.about.com

Winner of the 2005 Bram Stoker Award When the winner of the Bram Stoker Award for young readers was announced at the Horror Writers Association Banquet in Los Angeles on June 25, 2005, it was an unprecedented tie. The world's top prize for fright-writing for young adults went to Steve Burt's "Oddest Yet" and Clive Barker's "Abarat". So each man took home the genre's Oscar, a little Stoker haunted house. (A nice win for Steve after being a runnerup to Harry Potter for the "wee house" last year.)