A Terrifying Taste of Short & Shivery: Thirty Creepy Tales

by Robert D. San Souci, Katherine Coville (Illustrator)

Overview

Ghoulies, ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties inhabit these 30 chilling tales gathered from around the world—perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!
 
Creepy classic and contemporary stories from Australia, Germany, India, El Salvador, and elsewhere--including a healthy helping of American apparitions--will keep readers and listeners scared stiff. Do you dare walk down the lane where "Crooker Waits"? Or would you rather shake "The Hairy Hands"?
 
Twenty eerie illustrations highlight this companion to Robert D. San Souci's earlier collections of scary stories, which School Library Journal called "an absolute delight. . . . Young readers will gobble up these thirty thrilling snacks and beg for more." Savor this supernatural treat for spine-tingling fun!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307793676
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	04/20/2011
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Robert D. San Souci is the author of three previous volumes of Short & Shivery tales and the picture books Young Merlin, Young Guinevere, Young Lancelot, and Young Arthur.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
	Crooker Waits (British Isles--England)	1
	Yara-ma-yha-who (Australia)	6
	The Fata (Italy)	12
	The Fiddler (British Isles--Wales)	15
	Land-Otter (Native American--Tlingit tribe)	20
	A Fish Story (United States--Virginia--African American traditional)	25
	Apparitions (Germany)	30
	The Bijli (India)	35
	The Lutin (Canada--French Canadian traditional)	39
	The Hundredth Skull (United States--Ohio)	43
	The Ogre's Arm (Japan)	46
	The Hairy Hands (British Isles--England)	52
	The Snow Husband (Native American--Algonquin tribe)	58
	The Zimwi (Africa--from the Swahili)	62
	Witchbirds (France)	68
	Dangerous Hill (British Isles--England)	73
	The Witch's Head (El Salvador)	77
	Dinkins Is Dead (United States--South Carolina)	82
	Old Na's Ghost (British Isles--England)	86
	The Interrupted Wedding (Norway)	91
	The Mulombe (Africa--Zimbabwe)	95
	The Haunted Grove (Canada)	101
	The Tiger Woman (China)	104
	Peacock's Ghost (United States--Louisiana)	109
	Israel and the Werewolf (Poland--Jewish traditional)	114
	Hoichi the Earless (Japan--from Lafcadio Hearn)	118
	A Snap of the Fingers (Mexico)	123
	Narrow Escape (United States--California)	130
	The Black Fox (United States--Connecticut)	137
	The Mother and Death (Denmark--from Hans Christian Andersen)	141
	Notes on Sources	147