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Even More Short Shivery : Thirty Spine-Tingling Tales
Even More Short Shivery Thirty SpineTingling Tales Author:Robert D. San Souci, Jacqueline Rogers (Illustrator) Thirty spine-chilling stories from around the world provide plenty of shivers in this spooky collection. Curl up with old friends like Washington Irving's "Guests from Gibbet Island" or Charles Dickens' "Chips." Or make the aquaintance of "The Skull That Spoke" and "The Monster of ... more »Baylock"--but beware of spectral visitors like "The Blood-Drawing Ghost." This exciting mixture of classic and contemporary tales from Mexico, China, Poland, Nigeria, and other lands near and far is perfect for hair-raising reading!
Twenty deliciously eerie illustrations by Jacqueline Rogers highlight this companion to Robert D. San Souci's earlier collections of scary stories, Short & Shivery and More Short & Shivery, which School Library Journal called "an absolute delight."
Appointment in Samarra (Persia) --
Deer woman (United States-Ponca tribe) --
Maggot (British isles-England) --
Witch woman (United States-African American traditional) --
Berbalangs (Philippines) --
Dancing dead of shark island (British isles-Ireland) --
"That I see, but this I sew" (British isles-Scotland) --
La Guiablesse (West Indies-Martinique) --
Blood-drawing ghost (British isles-Ireland) --
Guests from Gibbet Island (United States-from Washington Irving) --
Haunted house (China) --
"Never far from you" (British isles-England) --
Rose Elf (Denmark-from Hans Christian Andersen) --
Wind rider (Poland) --
Skull that spoke (Nigeria) --
Monster of Baylock (British Isles-England) --
New mother (British Isles-England) --
Rokuro-Kubi (Japan) --
Dicey and Orpus (United States-African American traditional) --
Chips (British isles-from Charles Dickens) --
Skeleton's revenge (Mexico) --
Lullaby (British isles-England) --
Death and the two friends (United States-South Carolina) --