Title Scary stories to tell in the dark / collected [and retold] by Alvin Schwartz ; drawings by Stephen Gammell.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Harper, 2017.
	©1981

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Edition	Revised edition.
Description	viii, 111 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary	Drawn from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-110).
Note	"Soon to be a motion picture"--Cover.
Contents	The big toe -- The walk -- "What do you come for?" -- Me tie dough-ty walker! -- A man who lived in Leeds -- Old woman all skin and bone -- The thing -- Cold as clay -- The white wolf -- The haunted house -- The guests -- The hearse song -- The girl who stood on a grave -- A new horse -- Alligators -- Room for one more -- The Wendigo -- The dead man's brains -- "May I carry your basket?" -- The hook -- The white satin evening gown -- High beams -- The babysitter -- The viper -- The attic -- The slithery-dee -- Aaron Kelly's bones -- Wait till Martin comes -- The ghost with the bloody fingers.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 1 18788.
Subject	Ghosts -- Folklore.
	Tales -- United States.
	Ghost stories, American.
	Folklore.
	Ghosts -- Folklore.
	Folklore -- United States.
	Horror stories.
	Ghosts -- Fiction.
	JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations.
	JUVENILE FICTION / Ghost Stories.
	JUVENILE FICTION / Holidays & Celebrations / Halloween.
	Folklore. (OCoLC)fst00930306
	Ghost stories, American. (OCoLC)fst00942400
	Ghosts. (OCoLC)fst00942434
	Tales. (OCoLC)fst01142246
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Children's stories.
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Folklore. (OCoLC)fst01423784
	Ghost stories. (OCoLC)fst01726625
	Horror fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921684
	Ghost stories.
	Folklore.
	Horror fiction.
	Illustrated works.
Added Author	Gammell, Stephen, illustrator.
ISBN	9780062682826 paperback
	0062682822 paperback
	9781537959771 FollettBound
	1537959778 FollettBound
	9780062682895 set
	006268289X set
	0062961284 paperback
	9780062961280 paperback

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