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Grin
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  • Published: 24 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593814888
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $38.00

Grin

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26 Aug 2025
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26 Aug 2025
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24 Sept 2025
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Full of chills and twists, a twelve-year-old boy is thrilled that he'll get to play endless games at his family’s arcade, but soon realizes he’s in the fight of his life when he’s forced to save himself and his possessed Uncle from a sinister video game.

Danny is spending a week with his Uncle Bill who runs a massive retro arcade called PixelWorks. His only plan is to play as many games as possible from open to close, but he wasn’t expecting to find the Holy Grail of arcade collectors, a gruesome looking game titled Grin.

Anyone who plays the game becomes surprisingly violent, and soon with the help of his friend Jodi and a knowledgeable videogame streamer, Danny realizes that Grin holds the soul of a dead serial killer.

Soon, the killer makes the jump into Bill’s body, and it’s up to Danny to figure out a way to stop him for good.
  • Published: 24 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593814888
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $38.00
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About the author

D. W. Gillespie

Born and raised in Middle Tennessee, D.W. Gillespie wrote his first short story in second grade. It involved (unsurprisingly) monsters wreaking havoc on some unsuspecting victim. Some things never change. He began writing seriously after taking a creative writing class in college, and he’s written steadily ever since. He lives in Tennessee with his wife and two kids, and on dark nights, you might find them huddled around a campfire sharing spooky tales.
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Praise for Grin

Praise for Give Me Something Good to Eat:

"Evil witches and terrifying alternate realities? New fear unlocked."—Lindsay Currie, NYT bestselling author of SCRITCH SCRATCH

"Delivers delicious scares!"—Wendy Parris, author of FIELD OF SCREAMS

"With deliciously spooky imagery, a creepy, cursed town, ghoulish monsters, and children that go missing on the scariest night of the year, GIVE ME SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT is like a sack full of Halloween candy!"—Ally Russell, author of IT CAME FROM THE TREES