Scary stories to tell in the dark : collected from folklore

Author

Alvin Schwartz

Call Number

• J 398.25 SCHW (CEN, OSH, WSQ)

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Edition

Reillustrated ed.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Harper, 2010.

Physical Description

113 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.

Contents

• "AAAAAAAAAAAH!"
• The big toe
• The walk
• "What do you come for?"
• Me tie dough-ty walker
• A man who lived in Leeds
• Old woman all skin and bone
• The thing
• Cold as clay
• The white wolf
• The haunted house
• The guests
• The hearse song
• The gir who stood on a grave
• A new horse
• Alligators
• Room for one more
• The wendigo
• The dead man's brains
• "May I carry your basket?" --The hook
• The white satin evening gown
• High beams
• The babysitter
• The viper
• The attic
• The slithery-dee
• Aaron Kelly's bones
• Wait till Martin comes
• The ghost with the bloody fingers.