Alvin Schwartz

More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.

More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, haunts, superstitions, monsters, and horrible scary things.

Presents seven, easy-to-read ghost stories based on traditional folk tales and legends from various countries.

"Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death-- they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories... Pull up a chair, find a hand to hold, and prepare to be terrified."--Container.

Traditional and modern-day tales and "jump" stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, haunts, superstitions, monsters and horrible scary things.

Brief text and illustrations introduce such strange creatures from American folklore as the snawfus, billdad, lufferlang, and tripodero.

A collection of riddles of various traditional types including queer-word, hidden-answer, neck, leg, rebus, and tricky-question riddles.

Explore the history of one of the most controversial works of modern children's literature: The best selling teen classic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which scared a generation of readers and became one of the most banned books of modern times. Includes the author's family, scholars, folklorists, artists, fans, and children's book authors such as R.L. Stine, Q.L. Pearce, and more.

"A life-size baby doll who stalks its prey. A flesh-hungry ogre who jingle jangles when he walks. A haunted house just dying for a visitor. What do all these things have in common? In collaboration with the Horror Writers Association, New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Jonathan Maberry has compiled a gruesome collection of terrifying stories--in tribute to Alvin Schwartz's classic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series--that...