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Author Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-1992.

Title Scary stories to tell in the dark : collected from folklore and retold / by Alvin Schwartz ; illustrated by Brett Helquist.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Harper, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Central Library - Circulating Collection  GR580.S393 2010    Available
Edition Reillustrated edition.
Description 113 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, 1981.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-111)
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!" -- Big toe -- Walk -- "What do you come for?" -- Me tie dough-ty walker -- A man who lived in Leeds -- Old woman all skin and bone -- Thing -- Cold as clay -- White wolf -- Haunted house -- Guests -- Hearse song -- Girl who stood on a grave -- A new horse -- Alligators -- Room for one more -- Wendigo -- Dead man's brains -- "May I carry your basket?" --The hook -- White satin evening gown -- High beams -- Babysitter -- Viper -- Attic -- Slithery-dee -- Aaron Kelly's bones -- Wait till Martin comes -- Ghost with the bloody fingers.
Audience 640 Lexile.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 1.0 18788.
Subject Ghost stories, American.
Folklore -- United States.
Tales -- United States.
Folklore -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form Juvenile.
Added Author Helquist, Brett. Illustrator.
ISBN 9780060835194
0060835192
9780060835200
0060835206
0397319266
9780397319268
0064401707 (paperback)
9780064401708 (paperback)
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