Wicked Strange: 2015 Best Anthology, New England Book Festival

You want strange? You got it. Wicked Strange, as they say in New England. Imagine looking out your window in Nashua, New Hampshire and seeing an other-worldly hearse cruising up and down the street in search of a soul. Heard about Plantation 13, the rural Maine backwater, where the males birth the babies through their eye sockets? Hey, don't pet that infected dog! It's been in that concrete wall over three decades. And what's up with those giant moths trapped in the tower of the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse? Be sure to cross the road when you go past the old witchy woman's place along the White River in Bethel, Vermont or you may run into the spirit-stealers. Spend a day with Ruger, the new caretaker apprentice at the old felons' bone yard in Augusta, Maine. You say you need your fix of New England weirdness? Well, you're guaranteed to find it here under the covers--the front and back covers--of Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt's latest collection: Wicked Strange. Excerpted from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Steve Burt's four Stories to Chill the Heart collections: Odd Lot, Even Odder, Oddest Yet, and Wicked Odd.

About the Author

Steve Burt is a New Englander and the only ordained minister to win the Bram Stoker Award, horror's top prize. He has also won several Ray Bradbury writing prizes, the Moonbeam Children's Book Award, 4 Mom's Choice golds, and numerous New England and Florida Book Festival Awards. His FreeKs pyschic teen mysteries (FreeK Camp, FreeK Show, and FreeK Week have won more than 30 awards (also available through Follett School Solutions). A former contributor to Family Circle magazine and the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Dr. Burt is the author of the inspirational bestseller, A Christmas Dozen: Christmas Stories to Warm the Heart. He also writes the Dumb Jokes for Kids series. He splits his year between Wells, Maine and The Villages, Florida.

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