Even More Short & Shivery: Thirty Spine-Tingling Tales

by Robert D. San Souci, Jacqueline Rogers (Illustrator)

Overview

Make story time a little spookier with thirty chilling stories from around the world! If you liked Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, you’ll devour these spine-tingling tales!
 
Curl up with old friends like Washington Irving's "Guests from Gibbet Island" or Charles Dickens' "Chips." Or make the acquaintance of "The Skull That Spoke" and "The Monster of 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."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780440418771
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	08/12/2003
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	538,057
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 7.56(h) x 0.43(d)
Lexile:	910L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Robert D. San Souci is the author of Short & Shivery and More Short & Shivery, which School Library Journal called “an absolute delight.”

Read an Excerpt

The graveyard was three miles away, but Kate was a brawny girl with a fast stride, so she came to the place sooner rather than later.  The moon lit the marble tomb at the center; she found the blackthorn with no problem.

But she had barely put her hand on it when a soft voice called from the vault, "Come and open the tomb for me."

Kate began to tremble and was very much afraid.  But even as she tried to resist, a force compelled her to unwind the chain that sealed the double doors of the tomb.

Descending a short flight of steps, she found a casket resting upon a marble table.

"Take the lid off," commanded the voice from the casket.

Unable to help herself, she did as she was told.  Inside lay the body of a man who had died months before.  His eyes were open, but unmoving—yet somehow Kate felt them watching her.  His dead lips were drawn slightly apart, and the voice came from between them, though the mouth moved not at all.

"Lift me out of here," the corpse commanded, "and take me on your back."

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
	Appointment in Samarra (Persia)	1
	Deer Woman (United States--Ponca tribe)	5
	The Maggot (British Isles--England)	9
	Witch Woman (United States--African American traditional)	15
	The Berbalangs (Philippines)	20
	The Dancing Dead of Shark Island (British Isles--Ireland)	24
	"That I See, but This I Sew" (British Isles--Scotland)	29
	La Guiablesse (West Indies--Martinique)	33
	The Blood-Drawing Ghost (British Isles--Ireland)	38
	Guests from Gibbet Island (United States--from Washington Irving)	44
	The Haunted House (China)	49
	"Never Far from You" (British Isles--England)	52
	The Rose Elf (Denmark--from Hans Christian Andersen)	57
	The Wind Rider (Poland)	62
	The Skull That Spoke (Nigeria)	67
	The Monster of Baylock (British Isles--Ireland)	70
	The New Mother (British Isles--England)	76
	Rokuro-Kubi (Japan)	83
	Dicey and Orpus (United States--African American traditional)	89
	Chips (British Isles--from Charles Dickens)	94
	The Skeleton's Revenge (Mexico)	100
	Lullaby (British Isles--England)	105
	Death and the Two Friends (United States--South Carolina)	110
	Forest Ghosts (France)	113
	A Carolina Banshee (United States--North Carolina)	120
	The Deadly Violin (Germany--Jewish traditional)	125
	A Night of Terrors (United States--urban folklore)	128
	The Sending (Iceland)	136
	The Hand of Fate (British Isles--Wales)	140
	Old Raw Head (United States--the South)	144
	Notes on Sources	149

Editorial Reviews

[A] splendid choice for oral telling around a campfire, on a trip, in school, or at a sleepover.”–Booklist

“Young readers will gobble up these thirty thrilling snacks and beg for more.”
–School Library Journal

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