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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Collected from American Folklore
by Alvin Schwartz
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780064401708 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Filled with folktales of eerie horror and dark revenge, this collection contains stories about skeletons that roam the Earth with torn and tangled flesh; a ghost who takes revenge on her murderer; and a haunted house where a bloody head falls down the chimney each night. Illustrated with drawings from a Caldecott-winning artist.
Synopsis:
Buckeye Children’ s Book Award (Ohio)
About the Author
Alvin Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explore everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. His collections of scary stories — Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, Scary Stories 3, and two I Can Read Books, In A Dark, Dark Room and Ghosts! — are just one part of his matchless folklore collection.
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Average customer rating based on 2 comments:
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Carol Klavon, July 23, 2008 (view all comments by Carol Klavon)
I first discovered this book in my Middle School library, and was immediately drawn to the gallows humor of both the stories and the illustrations. Many classic horror stories told around American campfires for generations can be found here, including the story about the girl bitten on the face by a spider, the female driver tormented by a trucker's high beams on a dark country road, and who could forget the famous knife-stuck-in-the-grave dare that just about every child living near a cemetery was forced to endure?
The illustrations give it an almost amusing air, with just the right touch of terror, without freaking the kids too much. I have not read this book in years, and I still remember it as if I found it only yesterday. Love it!
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chinatree9, October 8, 2007 (view all comments by chinatree9)
This is a great book for children ages 9 to 12. It's spooky, but won't give them nightmares. All of the stories are very creative, original, and creepy. This was one of my favorite scary books as a child.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780064401708
- Subtitle:
- Collected from American Folklore
- ill.:
- Gammell, Stephen
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- HarperTrophy
- Location:
- New York, N.Y. :
- Subject:
- Children's fiction
- Subject:
- Short stories
- Subject:
- Children's stories
- Subject:
- Horror & Ghost Stories
- Subject:
- Folklore
- Subject:
- Ghosts
- Subject:
- Juveniles
- Subject:
- Tales
- Subject:
- Horror stories
- Subject:
- Ghost stories
- Subject:
- Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Horror
- Subject:
- Fairy Tales & Folklore - Collections by Author
- Subject:
- Ghost stories, American
- Subject:
- Folklore -- United States.
- Copyright:
- 1981
- Edition Description:
- 1st Harper trophy ed., 1986
- Series:
- Scary Stories
- Series Volume:
- no. 1
- Publication Date:
- July 1986
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- from 4
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 128
- Dimensions:
- 9.04x6.08x.34 in. .40 lbs.
- Age Level:
- 09-12
