Released June 25th. Order the eBook and paperback here!

There’s Something Sinister in Center Field by Robert P. Ottone was a winner of the 2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Middle Grade Novel, tying with Eden Royce’s The Creepening of Dogwood House. The book is a horror novel about a baseball team that must face ghoulish specters at a creepy ballfield with a cemetery behind center field.

Casey knew the Owera Valley Kingfishers were slated to win it all. With star center fielder Danny surrounded by a motley crew of talented little leaguers, she knew the team was poised to mimic New York’s own Yankees for dominance that season. 

That is until Casey’s dad, the coach of the Kingfishers, made a scheduling mistake which forced the team to practice at a historic and altogether too-creepy ballfield. 

A ballfield with a secret. 

A ballfield with a cemetery just beyond center field.

With Danny’s very soul in the balance, the Kingfishers must face a gang of ghoulish spectres in a winner-take-all best of three series. Can the team come together under Casey’s leadership and win the most important series of their young lives?