Spooky Stories for a Dark Stormy Night Author:Alice Low (Editor), Gahan Wilson (Illustrator) On a windy, stormy night, down a dark deserted road, you'll hear some scary sounds and meet some frightening figures! There's Captain Murderer, whose brides all meet a fearsome fate. And you'll find out how to deal with uninvited ghosts as well as what to do when a monster plans to make a bedtime snack of you. — In old tales and... more » new, master storytellers will take you on a spine-tingling journey from the forests of Russia to the bayous of the American South and around the globe. All in all, it's a delactably ghoulish collection guaranteed to make even the stoutest hearts tremble with fear.
Stories Include: Taily-po retold by Stephanie Calemenson, Captain Murderer by Charles Dickens, retold by George Harland, Wait Till Martin Comes retold by Maria Leach, The Legend of Sleep Hollow by Washington Irving, retold by Della Rowland, The Devil's Trick retold by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Little Buttercup retold by Margaret Read MacDonald, Wiley and the Hairy Man retold by Della Rowland, "My Neighbor Is a Monster, Pass It On" by Eric Weiner, Bedtime Snacks by Laurence Yep, The Black Geese retold by Alison Lurie, Uninvited Ghosts by Penelope Lively, Duffy's Jacket by Bruce Coville, Good-bye, Miss Patterson by Phyllis MacLennan, The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches by Alice Low, Rap! Rap! Rap! retold by Jeanne B. Hardendorff, I'm Coming Up the Stairs and The Strange Visitor and The Golden Arm retold by Wendy Wax, and Boo! by Kevin Crossley-Holland. « less