Director's Cut (The Atlas of Cursed Places Series)

by Vanessa Acton

Overview

The Sanford's Folly movie set has been abandoned since burning to the ground in the 1980s. Rumor has it the place is cursed after a film shoot gone terribly wrong. But that's not enough to scare Alex and his buddies away. After all, they live on an air force base. There's plenty of real-life stuff that's scarier than some fake western town, right?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512419450
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/28/2022
Series:	Atlas of Cursed Places Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	108
Lexile:	510L (what's this?)
File size:	7 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Vanessa Acton is a writer and editor in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She enjoys stalking dead people (also known as historical research), drinking too much tea, and taking long walks during her home state's annual three-week thaw.

Editorial Reviews

"[W]ith suspenseful plots and cliff-hangers at the end of every chapter . . . this series fills a niche for readers who need a stepping-stone series to engage them in reading."—VOYA

From the Publisher

2016-08-02
A cursed landmark complicates the lives of four teenagers.An abandoned Western film set lies in the middle of the Arizona desert. Narrator Alex and his friends live nearby, on Edmonds Air Force Base, and they’ve heard the stories. Everyone who worked on the set back in the 1980s, when it burned down, was cursed, and it’s still active, inflicting “eternal bad luck” on anyone who enters. But Alex’s friend Gabby is a budding movie nerd, and she’s itching to check it out. After a creepy expedition to the site, bad luck plagues the group of friends, and it’s up to them to break the curse. The tale moves from story beat to story beat with little fuss and no padding. Unfortunately, the author speeds along so fast that character work gets left behind, with the result that nobody has a particularly individual voice. Aside from the Islamophobia endured by pal Ahmed, the story sticks to Main Street to its own detriment. When there’s no emotional involvement in characters, there’s little reason to worry whether they’ll make it to the end in one piece. Alex and Gabby are Latino, and the base is realistically multicultural. Three other entries in the Atlas of Cursed Places series publish simultaneously: Deadman Anchor, Radioactive, and Skeleton Tower. A skeleton with no meat to speak of. (Horror. 10-14)

Kirkus Review