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Overview

Storytellers know—just as they have for hundreds and hundreds of years—that everyone enjoys a good, scary story!

Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give readers spooky, funny and fantastic tales guaranteed to raise goose bumps.

Who is the Wolf girl? Why is a hearse filled with men with yellow glowing eyes? Can a nightmare become reality? How do you avoid an appointment with Death?

Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of...

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Overview

Storytellers know—just as they have for hundreds and hundreds of years—that everyone enjoys a good, scary story!

Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give readers spooky, funny and fantastic tales guaranteed to raise goose bumps.

Who is the Wolf girl? Why is a hearse filled with men with yellow glowing eyes? Can a nightmare become reality? How do you avoid an appointment with Death?

Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of more than two dozens scary stories—and even a scary song—all just right for reading along or for telling aloud in the dark.

More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things.

Editorial Reviews

Entertainment Weekly
A wonderful collection of tales that range from creepy to silly to haunting.
New York Times
Read these if you dare.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060835248
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 1/25/2011
  • Pages: 109
  • Sales rank: 219,831
  • Age range: 9 years
  • Series: Scary Stories Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Alvin Schwartz is known for his more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explore everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. Don't miss his other Scary Stories collections, including More Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark and Scary Stories 3.

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Chapter One

Boo Men



The girl was late getting home for supper. So she took a shortcut through the cemetery. But, oh, it made her nervous. When she saw another girl ahead of her, she hurried to catch up.

"Do you mind if I walk with you?" she asked. "Walking through the cemetery at night scares me."

"I know what you mean," the other girl said. "I used to feel that way myself when I was alive."

There are all sorts of things that scare us.

The dead scare us, for one day we will be dead like they are.

The dark scares us, for we don't know what is waiting in the dark. At night the sound of leaves rustling, or branches groaning, or someone whispering, makes us uneasy. So do footsteps coming closer. So do strange figures we think we see in the shadows--a human maybe, or a big animal, or some horrible thing we can barely make out.

People call these creatures we think we see "boo men." We imagine them, they say. But now and then a boo man turns out to be real.

Queer happenings scare us, too. We hear of a boy or a girl who was raised by an animal, a human being like us who yelps and howls and runs on all fours. The thought of it makes our flesh crawl. We hear of insects that make their nests in a person's body or of a nightmare that comes true, and we shudder. If such things really do happen, then they could happen to us.

It is from such fears that scary stories grow. This is the third book of such stories I have collected. I learned some of them from people I met. I found others, tales that had been written down, in folklore archives and in libraries. As we always do with tales we learn, I havetold them in my own way.

Some stories in this book have been told only in recent times. But others have been part of our folklore for as long as we know. As one person told another, the details may have changed. But the story itself has not, for what once frightened people still frightens them.

I thought at first that one of the stories I found was a modem story. It is the one I call "The Bus Stop." I then discovered that a similar story had been told two thousand years earlier in ancient Rome. But the young woman involved was named Philinnion, not Joanna, as she is in our story.

Are the stories in this book true? The one I call "'The Trouble" is true. I cant be sure about the others. Most may have at least a little truth, for strange things sometimes happen, and people love to tell about them and turn them into even better stories.

Nowadays most people say that they don't believe in ghosts and queer happenings and such. Yet they still fear the dead and the dark. And they still see boo men waiting in the shadows. And they still tell scary stories, just as people always have.

-- Alvin Schwartz

The Appointment

A sixteen-year-old boy worked on his grandfather's horse farm. One morning he drove a pickup truck into town on an errand. While he was walking along the main street, he saw Death. Death beckoned to him.

The boy drove back to the farm as fast as he could and told his grandfather what had happened. "Give me the truck," he begged. "'I'll go to the city. He'll never find me there."

His grandfather gave him the truck, and the boy sped away. After he left, his grandfather went into town looking for Death. When he found him, he asked, "Why did you frighten my grandson that way? He is only sixteen. He is too young to die."

"I am sorry about that," said Death. "I did not mean to beckon to him. But I was surprised to see him here. You see, I have an appointment with him this afternoon--in the city."

The Bus Stop

Ed Cox was driving home from work in a rainstorm. While he waited for a traffic light to change, he saw a young woman standing alone at a bus stop. She had no umbrella and was soaking wet.

"Are you going toward Farmington?" he called.

"Yes, I am," she said.

"Would you like a ride home?"

"I would," she said, and she got in. "My name is Joanna Finney. Thank you for rescuing me."

"I'm Ed Cox," he said, "and you're welcome."

On the way they talked and talked. She told him about her family and her job and where she had gone to school, and he told her about himself. By the time they got to her house, the rain had stopped.

"I'm glad it rained," Ed said. "Would you like to go out tomorrow after work?"

"I'd love to," Joanna said.

She asked him to meet her at the bus stop, since it was near her office. They had such a good time, they went out many times after that. Always they would meet at the bus stop, and off they would go. Ed liked her more each time he saw her.

But one night when they had a date to go out, Joanna did not appear. Ed waited at the bus stop for almost an hour. "Maybe something is wrong," he thought, and he drove to her house in Farmington.

An older woman came to the door. "I'm Ed Cox," he said. "Maybe Joanna told you about me. I had a date with her tonight. We were supposed to meet at the bus stop near her office. But she didn't show up. Is she all right?"

The woman looked at him as if he had said something strange. "I am Joanna's mother," she said slowly. "Joanna isn't here now. But why don't you come in?"

Ed pointed to a picture on the mantel. "That looks just like her," he said.

"It did, once," her mother replied. "But that picture was taken when she was your age-about twenty years ago. A few days later she was waiting in the rain at that bus stop. A car hit her, and she was killed."

Scary Stories 3. Copyright © by Alvin Schwartz. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 24, 2006

    Scary Stories

    SCARY STORIES The book Scary Stories 3 is an adventurous book written by Alvin Schwartz. It isn¿t a book that you can sit down and read about just one story because this book has many different passages all throughout the book. This book has a bunch of different stories and they mostly take place in dark scary places. In one story there is ghosts and in another zombies. Throughout the whole book there are different and mysterious monsters. I disliked the book Scary Stories 3 because it was hard to remember all of the different stories. After reading it for a while it got pretty boring. I don¿t think that this book was exciting because it just told about people being killed and about people hearing freaky footsteps late at night. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy many different stories all in one book. I would also recommend this book to anyone who enjoys ghost stories. This book has many different stories that are scary. If you like scary stories this book is for you.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 29, 2005

    Spooky

    I remember it being 'spine-tingling' when i was younger, now 16. And still find it to spook me a bit. Sure, they were scary. But too good to throw away. I actually still have them, and was just reading them before i came here. But lost the earlier Scary Stories. They're still great today!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 22, 2002

    scary as hell!!!

    This book scared the hell out of me as a kid and it still does now at age 19, but the one thing i didnt quite get was the illustration Gammel did on THUUUUUP! The ghost looked more like an alien than an actual ghost. but hey thats my opinion. But the book all in all is awsome!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 10, 2000

    Great Conclusion to a Horrifying Trilogy

    This contains stories even more horrifying than the last two and an improvement over the 2nd one. The stories in here are very scary and disturbing like its excellent predescessors.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 8, 2011

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    The drawings are still creepy as ever.

    Some of the stories are creepy and a little uncomfortable especially the Red Spot. Still, the stories are best to read on Halloween.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 24, 2010

    scary fun!

    I think this book is really good and scary because in this book some people thought they wouldnt die but they ened up dieing.This is fun to tell scary stories to spook your friends out!

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  • Posted May 14, 2009

    "Harold" still chills me to my bones

    It is a credit to Alvin Scwartz and the incomparable Stephen Gammell that these books have endured in the minds of children for 2 generations. I can't say much that hasn't already been said in the reviews, but I will say that these stories will stay with you for YEARS. I challenge anyone to read the story "Harold" and not experience a horrific sinking in their stomach at the end. A wonderful addition to any kid's (and adult's) library.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 17, 2006

    Funny & Scary

    This book is the good ending to a set of books by Alvin Schwartz. I have this book in the three book bound set and I highly reccomend getting this book, along with the other two books.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 20, 2006

    an odd but funny in a way book

    an odd but funny in a way book The book Scary Stories 3 by Alvin Schwartz was interesting because the stories were very odd and weird. There are a lot of different stories that don¿t really relate. the book was kind of funny because the story were so random it made me think what kind of person would or could even think these kind of things up and it made me think what was with the author to think these things, and I found that funny. this book wasn¿t that bad though because the stories were very inserting and it made me want to read more. also they were also petty actioney. Also the people in the book are never the same. Some names of the stories I liked are: just delicious, hello kate & Harold and those are all in the same book ,there plenty more and I would recommend this book to any one who likes short stories about creepy things¿

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 18, 2005

    scary cool

    I think scary stories 3 is a great book.I am reading it right now.It is a really great book because it is REALLY SCARY.You should read this book because it is cool.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 17, 2004

    scared the bj out of me!

    I had the entire collection of scary stories when I was younger...I can't remember where they are now...I probably got too frightened and threw them out like the other reviewer! I love these books and recommend them to anyone, but kids, get ready to sweat a little underneath the covers because you'll be so frightened that you won't want to stick your limbs out from your blanket! The illustrations are excellent..very nightmarish indeed.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 8, 2003

    creeepie boook...

    this book really gives u the creeps... i remember actually throwing this book in the trash when i was in third grade...i was just too scared...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 24, 2003

    great book

    I think this is a great book, I have been readdig this sulection since I was a little kid. they are fun stories,and verry easy to read.It is hard to review this book because there are so many stories. One of my favorits was the on where this lady was marries to this big guy thats was pretty grumpy and he loved liver. fone day she cooked the best liver she had ever made for her husband. It was so good that she ait it all gone and if her husband where to come home and no liver was cooked she where to be in trouble. She rembered there was an old lady that died and her body was in the church next door. and that is how the story ended.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 8, 2001

    THE BEST SHORT SCARY STORIES

    OH MY GOD. What a really good book! They were all very interesting and differant. This guy has a hell of an imaganation. Each and every story is chilling to the bone. It also has wonderful and strange illustrations. I can't even think of a favorite cause they are all so good. He also uses good chose of words. Recommened to people who love to read scary stories...... Wait... I mean.... Its recommened to........ EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 12, 2000

    WOW!

    This book is freaky! But in a good way

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 25, 2000

    Asome stories

    At first when I saw it I thoght kid stories but once I read one I couldn't put it down some of the stories did sort of seem scary and all of my friends loved it!!!!!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 24, 2000

    Great pictures

    I'ts not the scariest book! Book but i'ts pretty good. I've read once. It has about 20 stories in it. If you have an'y questions just E-Mail me I will reaply!

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