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Short and Shivery (Thirty Chilling Tales)
Short and Shivery - Thirty Chilling Tales Author:Robert D. San Souci, Katherine Coville (Illustrator) Short & Shivery invites you into a world of hair-raising tales chock-full of chills. The thirty stories in this book have been carefully selected from international ghost-lore and skillfully retold with ghastly details ans strong, shuddery endings. Come inside and meet the young miller's daughter of "The Robber Bridegroom" who ... more »may have discovered too late that she has been betrothed to a madman; the dancing skeleton who returns from the dead to haunt the friend who betrayed him in life; the Golem, who tires of serving his greedy master and suddenly turns evil; and the many other intriguing characters in stories from the Brothers Grimm, Washington Irving, and other world-famous authors. But before you settle down in your cozy reading chair, make sure all the lights are turned on!
Robber bridegroom (adapted form the Brothers Grimm) --
Jack Frost (from a Russian folktale) --
Waterfall of ghosts (from the Japanese writings of Lafcadio Hearn) --
Ghost's cap (from a Russian folktale) --
Witch cat (folklore of the United States- Virginia) --
Green mist (a legend from Lincolnshire, England) --
Cegua (a folktale from Costa Rica) --
Ghostly little girl (United States- California) --
Midnight mass of the dead (a Norse folktale) --
Tailypo (United States- West Virginia) --
Lady Eleanor's mantle (from a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne) --
Soldier and the Vampire (a Russian folktale) --
Skeleton's Dance (a folktale from Japan) --
Scared to death (United States- South Carolina) --
Swallowed alive (a British folktale) --
Deacon's ghost (a folktale from Ireland) --
Nuckelavee (a folktale from the Orkney Islands) --
Adventure of the German student (from a tale by Washington Irving) --
Bill Mosby's night ride (United States- New England) --
Hunter in the Haunted Forest (a Native American legend) --
Brother and sister (retold from an African folktale) --
Lovers of the dismal swamp (United States- Virginia) --
Boneless (based on the folklore of the Shetland Islands) --
Death waltz (United States- New Mexico) --
Ghost of Misery Hill (United States- California) --
Loup-Garou (Werewolf) (from French Canadian folklore) --