WATERLOO - Forget Scary Movie. Instead, horror fans can take in a University of Waterloo's book launch this week called Campus Chills.

Campus Chills is the first jointly released book published by three Canadian campus bookstores - University of Waterloo, McMaster University and University of Alberta.

Locally, the spooky reading event will be held Thursday, Oct. 22 at 9 p.m. in the University of Waterloo Book Store, located in South Campus Hall. Free Admission. Participants must register at http://www.bookstore.uwaterloo.ca/campuschills/campuschills.html.
"It's the first time that a print-on-demand new fiction book was created exclusively for the three campus bookstores with contributions from distinguished authors who are all alumni of Canadian universities," said Kathryn Fedy, marketing co-ordinator for the University of Waterloo Book Store. "The stories are original and never-before-published stories that the authors have written exclusively for the first edition of Campus Chills."

The book will be printed exclusively on the Espresso Book Machines located in each of the campus bookstores. After witnessing the printing of Campus Chills at the University of Waterloo Book Store, guests will be escorted for a book reading at a secret location, which is the setting for one of the stories written by the three Waterloo alumni authors: Julie E. Czerneda (bachelor of science, 1977); James Alan Gardner (bachelor of mathematics, 1976; and Douglas Smith (bachelor of mathematics, 1975).

The introduction for Campus Chills is written by Canadian science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, who received a Hugo award for WAKE. Premiering this fall, ABC has launched a new 13-episode series based on Sawyer's 1999 novel Flashforward.
Thirteen award-winning alumni authors have contributed original stories for the Campus Chills anthology.

All the stories are set on Canadian campuses and feature speculative fiction on the 'darker side.' The stories include:

* Kelley Armstrong - Harbringer

* Julie E. Czerneda - The Forever Brotherhood

* Kimberly Foottit and Mark Leslie - Prospero's Ghost

* James Alan Gardner - Truth-Poison

* Sèphera Girón - Can You See the Real Me

* Michael Kelly - Different Skins

* Nancy Kilpatrick - Sara

* Susie Moloney - Sown

* Douglas Smith - Radio Nowhere

* Brit Trogen - Red Cage

* Edo van Belkom - Sypher

* Steve Vernon - Old Spice Love Knot

* Carol Weekes - In The Pursuit of Dreams