Three BCPS Students Win Baltimore County Public Library’s Tales Of The Dead Short Horror Story Contest

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — Three BCPS students won the Baltimore County Public Library’s Library’s Tales of the Dead Short Horror Story Contest, officials announced Monday.

Polly Sloan, a seventh-grader astatine Parkville Middle School, won archetypal spot for “The Letters From No One,” a communicative astir a antheral receiving mysterious and frightening letters predicting his imminent death. Nicholas Krabitz, a fifth-grader astatine Westchester Elementary, won 2nd spot for “Ghost In The Graveyard,” a communicative of a young teen discovering the information astir his father’s murder. Lucy Bray, a seventh-grader astatine Dumbarton Middle School, won 3rd spot for “Victim,” a communicative that tells of a harrowing incidental and the eerie aftermath.

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The contention began successful August aft the Baltimore County Public Library challenged writers to constitute archetypal fearfulness stories with a “Ghosts successful the Graveyard” them with the contention being divided into 2 categories, “over 21” and “under 21.”

The first-place winners successful each class are begetter and daughter. Polly Sloan’s father, David Sloan, took archetypal spot successful the “over 21” class for “A Hole astatine the Edge of the Woods,” a communicative astir a young fox whose curiosity gets the amended of him connected Halloween night.

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“My girl and I truly enjoyed this situation and had amusive trying our champion to out-write and out-scare each other,” said victor David Sloan. “Storytelling is an important portion of our household identity, truthful we look guardant to much challenges similar this to animate our creativity.”

The contention began successful 2016 and was inspired by an 1816 shade communicative situation that led to the instauration of Frankenstein’s monster.

The young winners volition person a prize bundle including a 2021 “A Toast Among Ghosts” T-shirt and acquisition card. “Over 21” winners received VIP tickets to A Toast Among Ghosts, the Foundation for Baltimore County Public Library’s yearly Poe-themed outdoor festival.

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All winning stories volition beryllium published connected the Foundation for Baltimore County Public Library’s website.

CBS Baltimore Staff