Arthur Slade's Canadian Chills Books

When her sixth-grade teacher, Miss Vindez, plummets from the belfry of St. Wolcott School, Daphne and her friends Nick and Peach are plunged into a mystery that includes a long-ago fire that left behind twelve dead schoolchildren, tiny ghosts with nowhere to go, and an ancient evil just dying to break through into modern-day Moose Jaw. Miss Vindez survives her fall, but things just aren't the same—she's spouting gibberish, and both Principal Peterka and the school janitor are definitely not themselves at all anymore. Determined to get to the bottom of what's going on, Daphne, Nick and Peach dig up the troubled history of Grudstone, the school that used to stand where St. Wolcott is now. They uncover evidence of a crime so terrible it can hardly be believed. Worse, the terrifying perpetrator of that crime isn't done yet—he has more horrible plans in mind. And all that stands in his way are three Moose Jaw school kids. Using his acclaimed skills at creating chilling tales for young people, Arthur Slade has produced a truly riveting story destined to keep bedroom lights on for many nights to come. Arthur Slade was raised in southwest Saskatchewan and began writing at an early age. He is the author of the Northern Frights series, the Canadian Chills series and Tribes and the recently released Megiddos' Shadow .

Art Slade's newest title combines his comic genius and his ability to make your heart freeze with terror. Walter Biggar Bronson (a.k.a. Wart), and his friend Cindy meet a ghost one night after school. The small, mournful boy leads them across the Broadway Bridge to the gracious Bessborough Hotel. After a strange incident in the elevator, they find themselves still in the hotel—but back in 1936. Some spooky things are going on. The room numbers are all mixed up. The library on the mezzanine is filled with hundred of copies of the same book. And out on the street, the cars are all the same—vintage Studebakers. Back in the present, Wart and Cindy follow their motto—"Gather, identify, solve"—until they crack the case, with help from Wart's distinctly odd parents, and the loan of his mother's time-travel-proof cell phone. For all the humour in Slade's gentle spoof of the detective genre ("A good detective always knows what time it is"), there is a serious ghost story here. Young Archie Tortle, drowned along with his parents in 1936, has not been able to accept his death. He has created his own world in the hotel, where everything serves his needs. Only Wart and Cindy can help him come to terms with his loss and stop him haunting the hotel. Arthur Slade was raised in southwest Saskatchewan and began writing at an early age. He is the author of the Northern Frights series, the Canadian Chills series and Tribes and the recently released Megiddos' Shadow .

Someone is delivering plates of scrumptious Nanaimo bars to every household in Nanaimo, and the people who eat them are behaving very strangely. Gordon Whillickers doesn't get to eat his because at the last minute a hairy arm reaches through his window and steals them. He and Sophia chase after the thief and meet an amazing Sasquatch named Cheryl, who is also puzzled by the sudden appearance of the mouth-watering delicacies. With the help of Cheryl and the technological wizardry of a local librarian, the two kids move ever closer to the alien creature at the centre of the plot. They must stop him before the Nanaimoites' IQs are lost forever. Arthur Slade was raised in southwest Saskatchewan and began writing at an early age. He is the author of the Northern Frights series, the Canadian Chills series and Tribes and the recently released Megiddos' Shadow .