The Scary story reader : forty-one of the scariest stories for sleepovers, campfires, car & bus trips-even for dates!

Book 1993

A collection of scary urban legends and other modern-day horror tales preserved by oral tradition, including "Hook-arm," "The Call from the Downstairs Phone," and "Give Me Back My Guts!"

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Horror tales, American

Tales United States

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Horror tales, American Urban folklore

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ISBN:

9780874833829
9780874832716
0874833825
0874832713

Description:

174 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

Sequel to: Favorite scary stories of American children / [edited by] Richard and Judy Dockrey Young. 1990

Contents:

Classic urban legends: Don't look back
Hook-arm
Pond of snakes
Call from the downstairs phone
Call from the grave
Last kiss
Urban runners-up: Outside the door
Killer in the black seat
Little white dog
Step-drag
Lady from the lake
Headless brakeman
Terror of our nation: The Wendigo
Tad O'Cain and the corpse
Phantom ship
Spin! Spin! Reel off, skin!
Tailbones
Rosewood casket
Angelina
Curse of Kilauea
Lady is white on Mount Hood
Ghost people
Children of the glacier
The thing in Lac De Smet
Ghost of Prairie Rose
Skull in the road
Bloody benders
Bearwalker
(cont.) Jump!: But I'm not!
Tillie Williams
Dead man's hand
Laugh yourself to death: Dottie got her liver
Bony fingers
It floats!
Viper
Bloody fingers
Skeleton in the closet
Our favorite horror tales: Give me back my guts!
Scout and the snake eggs
11:11
White dress

LCCN:

93024741

Control Number:

49158

Other Authors:

Hall, E. Wendell, illustrator
Young, Judy Dockrey, 1949-
Young, Richard, 1946-

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