Dial If You Dare

Do you know any scary stories?

It's Halloween and Alex is excited to be watching horror movies and telling ghost stories with his cousins. When it's Alex's turn to share, he tells the terrifying tale of Jack Hatchett, local hardware store owner and serial killer. Legend has it that he cut his victims up and hid the pieces so they would never be found. But before the police could prove anything, the hardware store burned to the ground, turning the suspected murderer and his secrets to ashes. Now, if you dial the number for Hatchett's Hardware, his ghost is said to answer the phone. For Alex, Chloe and Luke, the temptation to call and see if the legend is true proves too hard to resist...

Alexandre C?t?-Fournier studied creative writing and cinema and now teaches French literature. He wrote his first horror stories when he was a teenager and hasn't stopped since. He lives in Quebec.

Genevi?ve Bigu? is an illustrator and comic artist who works in many fields, including publishing and advertising. What's in the Walls? was her first book for young readers as an illustrator. Her first graphic novel as an author, Parfois les lacs br?lent (When the Lake Burns), won many awards, including the 2023 Prix des libraires du Qu?bec, and was nominated for the 2023 Governor General's Literary Awards in Young People's Literature. She lives in Montr?al.

David Warriner grew up in the UK and escaped to Quebec right after graduating from Oxford. A professional translator for nearly two decades, David nurtures a healthy passion for Quebec fiction and has translated a range of fiction, nonfiction and children's fiction titles by Quebec authors for British and Canadian publishers. He lives in Penticton, British Columbia.