Scary stories to tell in the dark / collected by Alvin Schwartz ; drawings by Stephen Gammell.
"Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time." -- Amazon.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062961280
- ISBN: 0062961284
- ISBN: 9780062682826
- ISBN: 9780062682895
- ISBN: 006268289X
- ISBN: 1537959778
- Physical Description: viii, 111 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: Revised edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
- Copyright: ©1981.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Now a major motion picture."--Cover. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-110). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | "AAAAAAAAAAAH!". 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 -- He heard footsteps coming up the cellar stairs.... The thing ; Cold as clay ; The white wolf ; The haunted house ; The guests -- They eat your eyes, they eat your nose. The hearse song ; The girl 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?" -- Other dangers. The hook ; The white satin evening gown ; High beams ; The babysitter -- "AAAAAAAAAAAH!". The viper ; The attic ; The slithery-dee ; Aaron Kelly's bones ; Wait till Martin comes ; The ghost with the bloody fingers -- Notes -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments. |
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 8-12. 640L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 1 18788. |
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| Subject: | Ghost stories, American > Juvenile literature. Folklore > United States > Juvenile literature. Tales > America > Juvenile literature. |
| Genre: | Horror fiction. Ghost stories. Short stories. |
Available copies
- 15 of 17 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Harnett County Library.
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- 0 current holds with 17 total copies.
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| 250 | . | ‡aRevised edition. | |
| 264 | 1. | ‡aNew York, NY : ‡bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, ‡c2017. | |
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| 500 | . | ‡a"Now a major motion picture."--Cover. | |
| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 99-110). | |
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