Books with author Steven Burt

Grand Prize Winner, 2019 New York Book Festival Awards2019 Mom's Choice Awards gold medalistFrom Bram Stoker Award-winning author Steve Burt comes a new novel for adults and teens.Could Things Get Any Weirder in Wells, Maine?Working at Annie's Book Stop, Keegan has read plenty of mysteries. But she's never been part of one. Until now.It starts when someone—or some THING—burglarizes a different local bookstore, Toil & Trouble, stealing an obscure book of little interest except possibly to a collector.It gets stranger when someone appearing to be a hunchbacked nun comes to Annie's Book Stop to order a reprint of the same book—and two books on local graveyards! But before they can be picked up, a robed and hooded figure breaks into Annie's after hours and rifles through the special-orders shelf. Is there more to this book than meets the eye?More questions come up, but the most important one is: Can Keegan survive long enough to unravel the big secrets of her small town?

From Bram Stoker Award winner Steve BurtCould Things Get Any Weirder in Wells, Maine?Working at her mother's hole-in-the-wall bookstore, Annie's Book Stop, 17-year-old Keegan has read plenty of mysteries. But she's never been part of one. Until now.It starts when someone--or some THING--burglarizes a different business in Wells, Toil & Trouble. It specializes in occult, magic, and rare books. The thief steals an obscure book of little interest except possibly to a collector.Things get stranger when a visitor appearing to be a hunchbacked nun comes into Annie's Book Stop and asks Keegan to order a reprint of the same book--plus two books on local graveyards! But before they can be picked up, a robed and hooded figure breaks into Annie's after hours and rifles through the special-orders shelf. Is there more to this book than meets the eye?More questions come up, but the most important one is: Can Keegan survive long enough to unravel the big secrets of her small town?

2015 New England Book Festival Award for Best Anthology. Here are 13 Twilight-Zone-like weird tales set in New England, from Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt. Excerpted from the author's Stories to Chill the Heart series of 39 stories: Odd Lot (Benjamin Franklin Award winner), Even Odder (Bram Stoker Nominee), Oddest Yet (Bram Stoker winner), Wicked Odd (Ippy Award). Also available in audiobook and ebook.

With a compass to direct him in his job as a forward observer and a personal camera to document his experiences—and keep him connected to his creative side—Vietnam veteran Steven Burchik was lucky enough to make it home and years later decided to write about the most challenging year of his life. Like any experience, his year spent with the First Infantry Division stationed in the rice paddies near Saigon included good times as well as bad. He candidly recalls how, although he believed communism to be a serious threat in the world, he soon learned that a guerilla war is a difficult one to fight, and survival rather than victory quickly became his focus. But he also remembers the exhilaration of helicopter rides over serpentine rivers and the time he introduced village kids to a gumball machine. A unique memoir of the war, Compass and a Camera pulls not only from Burchik’s memories, but also from the daily letters he wrote to his fiancée (she kept every single one) and includes numerous photographs from his collection of over four thousand. The images alone make this book a must-have for any history buff or fellow veteran.

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.

2015 New England Book Festival Award. Steve Burt's three Devaney & Hoag Vermont ghost-buster mystery stories, previously published in three different books, are collected here in one large-print volume. "The Witness Tree," "The French Acre," and "The Chambers Crypt" are all set in Norwich, Vermont. Hoag is a Valley News reporter who is frequently called upon to investigate unusual (paranormal) stories; Devaney is his retired-teacher father-in-law who tags along to snap pictures. Dr. Burt is the author of many books with New England settings, including the Bram Stoker Award-winning Stories to Chill the Heart series (Odd Lot, Even Odder, Oddest Yet, and Wicked Odd), the FreeKs paranormal teen detectives series (FreeK Camp, FreeK Show, and FreeK Week, winner of the Florida Book Festival Grand Prize and the New England Book Festival Award). His inspirational New England holiday collection, A Christmas Dozen, was a national bestseller.

Winner of the 2015 New England Book Festival Award for Best Anthology. Regular print edition (There is also a Large Print Edition). 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 the new caretaker's 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.

Winner of the 2015 New England Book Festival Award for Best Anthology. Regular print edition (There is also a Large Print Edition). 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 the new caretaker's 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.

What do you call a deer with no eyes? No i-deer. What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs? Still, no i-deer.Over 150 dumb jokes for kids from retired minister Steve Burt, who is the author of dozens of award-winning teen mysteries and ghost story collections, a 4-time Mom's Choice Award winner. The sequel, Second Worst Joke Book, is due out in October 2016.