Books published by publisher Burt Creations

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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?

This ghost story from Bram Stoker Award winner Steve Burt is set at the Pemaquid Point lighthouse. It is a single short story excerpted from the author's 13-story collection Wicked Strange. Many of Burt's shorter ghost stories (this is a long one) are used for campfires and classrooms. His FreeKs thrillers about psychic teen detectives have won 30 international awards, including the Florida Book Festival grand prize and the New England Book Festival Award.

2005 Independent Publisher Award (Ippy) honorable mention for Young Adult dark fiction.What do these things have in common? A Maine backwater. A tattoo artist who uses psychic power rather than ink. A cave so thick with butterflies you can't breathe. Twins with remote vision and remote hearing. A summer camp from hell. Fireplace ghosts asking for help. They're all stories from the weird imagination of Bram Stoker Award-winning author Steve Burt. Wicked Odd is the fourth in the Stories to Chill the Heart series of bizarre collections. (Odd Lot, Even Odder, Oddest Yet are the others).

Winner of the 2012 Mom's Choice Award, the 2012 Halloween Book Festival Award, and 6 others. The FreeKs are back so, naturally, trouble’s not far behind. Several of the kids have returned—a year older and more adept with their paranormal skills. There’s also a hot new guy, Damon. When he sees Atlanta, with her streaked hair and body piercings, you don’t have to be psychic to feel the electricity. Just as the group gathers, a body is discovered under bizarre circumstances. It looks like suicide, but when the ghosts from last year show up with a strange ethereal companion, the FreeKs and their adult mentors have to conclude it’s a murder. And they’re being drawn into it. It’s out of the frying pan into the fire when the murderer targets two at FreeK Camp for abduction and murder. But why these two? As the victims are taken, new talents and an assist from an unexpected ally all come into play. But the sun is coming up and time is running out. Available in print, ebook, and audio book read by actress Melissa Epp.

Sometime in the night a woman screamed. The next morning Pat Botham, Linda Miracle, and Linda's two toddler sons were simply gone. It was the perfect murder until the railroad lowered the water level in the Gunnison River and exposed the bodies.Mattie Rhoades had no desire to become involved in the aftermath of the crime and didn't - until someone told her something about one of the suspects that no one else knew.This book is not suitable for readers under the age of 18. Previously titled Colorado Cold Case.This is a work of fiction based on a true story – my story. That is not to say that everything in it is true, but that what I heard from other people served to influence the decisions I made. The conversation between Sam and Mattie is fiction and meant only as a storytelling tool.Some of the names have been changed.

Winner of the 2010 Mom's Choice Award, Moonbeam Children's Book Award, and the London, Paris, NY, Hollywood, San Francisco, and New England Book Awards for Young Adults. Free Camp, which somehow became known as FreeK Camp, is for special kids. But just how special most people will never know. Two vans are on their way to the camp in rustic New England, their passengers just starting to get acquainted. One van makes it. The other mysteriously disappears. Now each group of kids must bond together to discover and use their paranormal and psychic powers. The lives of one group literally depend on it. Part mystery thriller, part detective story, part sci-fi, "FreeK Camp" is all hold-your-breath-I-didn’t-see-that-coming adventure. Available in print, ebook, and audio book read by actress Melissa Epp.

15 Chillers for Classrooms, Campfires & Car Trips. Sequel to Odd Lot: Stories to Chill the Heart, which won the Benjamin Franklin Award (silver) for Best Mystery/Suspense Book, the ForeWord Award Honorable Mention for Best Horror, Writer's Digest's Honorable Mention for Best Genre Fiction, and had 6 of 9 stories named Honorable Mention in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror. The author is also a double Ray Bradbury award-winner. Ray Bradbury award-winner Steve Burt, who scares listeners nationally through 100 radio readings every October, serves up 15 more of his creepy originals for people who want to read aloud to a group or gasp alone under the covers.

8-page short story, 1 of 9 from Steve Burt's Oddest Yet, winner of the Bram Stoker Award. The Stories to Chill the Heart series includes four collections: Odd Lot (Benjamin Franklin Award silver medalist for mystery/suspense), Even Odder (Bram Stoker Award Nominee), Oddest Yet (Bram Stoker Award Winner), and Wicked Odd (Ippie Award finalist). Many of the stories are used around campfires and in classrooms. Burt's paranormal FreeKs series about psychic teens includes the 12-award FreeK Camp and the 8-award FreeK Show.