Announcing THE BABYSITTER LIVES by Stephen Graham Jones

We still have ample copies of Stephen Graham Jones’s foray into grindhouse horror, The Babysitter Lives, available for preorder.

All of the signed limited editions we’ve stocked by Jones sell out. Don’t miss out on this one, which will give you first crack at the next SST Publications signed limited edition by SGJ.

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“I enjoyed The Babysitter Lives very much. It's perfect for audio, as really scary stories always are, and this one is really scary. Perfect for a long car ride...especially when you're almost out of gas and you start wondering if maybe someone has gotten into the backseat and will lurch into the rearview mirror.”

—Stephen King

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When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and spend a quiet night studying: the SATs are tomorrow, and checking the Native American/Alaskan Native box on all the forms won’t help if she chokes on test day. But tomorrow is also Halloween, and the twins are eager to show off their costumes.

Charlotte’s last babysitting gig almost ended in tragedy when her young charge sleepwalked unnoticed into the middle of the street, only to be found unharmed by Charlotte’s mother. Charlotte vows to be extra careful this time. But the house is filled with mysterious noises and secrets that only the twins understand, echoes of horrors that Charlotte gradually realizes took place in the house eleven years ago. Soon Charlotte has to admit that every babysitter’s worse nightmare has come true: they’re not alone in the house. 

Signed Limited Hardcover Edition:

• Limited to only 600 signed and hand-numbered copies
• Signed by Stephen Graham Jones and François Vaillancourt on a specially designed full-colour illustrated signature page
• 6.14” x 9.21” trim size
• 288 pages
• Offset printed on 100gsm Munken Print Cream
• Quarter bound in an imitation leather with a matte buffalo leather look over Brillianta cloth
• Head and tail bands
• Featuring six full colour interior illustrations printed on a special silk art stock & tipped into the book
• Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Full-colour endpapers
• Sewn binding
• Ribbon page marker
• Dust jacket and interior artwork by François Vaillancourt 

Praise for The Babysitter Lives:

“It's a story full of so many frightening twists and turns that you'll be checking every nook and cranny of your own house by the end, just to make sure something terrifying isn't about to creep out from the dark.”

—Paste

“In the previously audio-only ‘The Babysitter Lives,’ readers watch helplessly as Charlotte’s routine babysitting job sets her on a harrowing hunt through a house of inexplicable terror. Both stories will hold readers rapt with their sympathetic and well-developed heroines, begging them to finish each in as few sittings as possible even as their emotions are put through the wringer while simultaneously forcing them to confront a fear that jumps off the page, straight into their guts. But they will love every second of it.”

—Booklist (Starred Review)

“A one-two punch of grindhouse horror from one of the craft’s most inventive practitioners.

“After the vociferous gore in Killer on the Road, readers might expect a respite from The Babysitter Lives, but no such luck. Harper would probably be friends with high school senior Charlotte, not least due to their shared Native American heritage and ferocious spirit. In Charlotte’s case, what’s a babysitter to do on the night before Halloween except babysit two creepy twins for their secretive, mistrustful parents? Except that, as her girlfriend, Murphy, reminds her, the scariest local legend is about a mother who drowned her children on that very night, years ago. What resembles a modern gothic quickly turns into something else, as Jones visits all sorts of horrors upon his creation, from insanity-inducing portals to somewhere down under, to murderous doppelgängers and other visitations.”

—Kirkus