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Author San Souci, Robert D.

Title Short & shivery : thirty chilling tales / retold by Robert D. San Souci ; illustrated by Katherine Coville.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Dell Yearling, 2001.
©1987

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department  J398.2 SAN    Storage
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J PPB SAN SOUCI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Jefferson Branch - Children's Department  J PPB SAN SOUCI    Check Shelf
Description xv, 175 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Note "A Yearling book."
Summary A collection of thirty short and spooky tales from the folklore of Russia, Virginia, Ireland, Canada, and other areas of the world. Thirty hair-raising tales by some of the world's most famous authors have been skillfully retold here especially for young readers. Includes such famous chillers as the Brothers Grimm's "The Robber Bridegroom", "The Golem", and tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving.
Contents The Robber bridegroom -- Jack Frost -- The Waterfall of Ghosts -- The Ghost's Cap -- The Witch Cat -- The Green Mist -- The Cegua -- The Ghostly Little Girl -- The Midnight Mass of the Dead -- Tailypo -- Lady Eleanore's mantle -- The Soldier and the Vampire -- The Skeleton's Dance -- Scared to death -- Swallowed alive -- The Deacon's Ghost -- Nuckelavee -- The Adventure of the German Student -- Bill Mosby's Night Ride -- The Hunter in the Haunted Forest -- Brother and Sister -- The Lovers of Dismal Swamp -- Boneless -- The Death Waltz -- The Ghost of Misery Hill -- The Loup-Garou (The Werewolf) -- The Golem -- Lavender -- The Goblin Spider -- The Halloween pony.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.5 7.0 150658.
Subject Ghosts -- Folklore.
Ghost stories.
Tales.
Folklore.
Added Author Coville, Katherine, illustrator.
Added Title Short and shivery
ISBN 0440418046: $4.99 ($6.99 Can.)
9780440418047
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