If You Want to Scare Yourself Author:Angela Sommer-Bodenburg Freddy, a young boy who is sick in bed, convinces each family member who visits him to tell a scary story. His mother tells stories of a ghost and a werewolf. Father tells of a vampire. Grandmother relates a tale of a ghost child. — The last story, one that the child has written, conveys to parents the need to pay attention to their children. The... more » five stories, each told in the first person, are a good blend of the type of horror that delights children. The stories are woven together, and brought to an end, by the appearance of a new visitor to the sick bed.« less