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Ghosts and Other Scary Stories

No Halloween could be complete without a good scary story.
Gather 'round and turn down the lights!

Ghosts! : Ghostly Tales from Folklore
(An I Can Read Book)

by Alvin Schwartz (Designer), Victoria Chess (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback - 64 pages
Presents seven, easy-to-read ghost stories based on traditional folk tales and legends from various countries.
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Bumps in the Night
by Harry Allard, James Marshall (Illustrator)
Using short chapters and colorful illustrations, the creators of the best-selling books about The Stupids introduce Dudley the Stork, who hires Madam Kreepy to find out what is causing the spooky noises in his new house.
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A Creepy Countdown
by Charlotte A. Huck, Joseph A. Smith (Illustrator), Charlotte S. Huck
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback - 24 pages
What do lumpy toads, hooting owls, furry bats, skinny witches, ghastly ghosts, yowling cats, and brave mice have in common? They all parade through the spine-tingling pages of Charlotte Huck's imaginative countdown and revel in an especially eerie night! But the mice get the last Boo (or maybe young readers do) in this enchanting book that goes from one to ten and back again, and dazzles with its ticklish scratchboard pictures. A positively creepy-crawly read-aloud for Halloween, storytime, and anytime!

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Ghost Poems
by Daisy Wallace (Editor), Tomie De Paola (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback 32 pages
17 poems for ghostly reading.
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More Short & Shivery: Thirty Terrifying Tales
by Robert D. San Souci, Katherine Coville, Jacqueline Rogers
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback
Thirty hair-raising stories from around the world fill this spooky collection with delicious shivers and spine-tingling chills.

$8.76
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currently out of print


The Haunted House : A Collection of Original Stories
by Jane Yolen (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Doron Ben-Ami (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback
Grown-ups make excuses for the creaks and groans that an old house make. Leave it to the children to discover that those strange noises are made by ghosts! Every family that moves into the haunted house at 66 Brown's End discovers a new kind of ghost, each in a different room. From the cellar to the attic these ghosts will surprise you in this collection of original stories by some of today's best writers.

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The Scary Book
by Joanna Cole, Stephanie Calmenson (Editor), Chris Demarest, Chris Demahrest (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback
There are plenty of laughs in this frightfully funny collection of batty bats, wacky witches, merry monsters, and grinning ghosts. Here are spooky stories, poems, riddles, and jokes--a collection that is perfect for Halloween

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The Time of the Ghost
by Diana Wynne Jones
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover
She seemed to have no body. She thought she might be a ghost, but how she got that way was a mystery. All she knew was that she was one of four sisters whose parents ran a boarding house in a boys' school. And her peculiar state had something to do with a seemingly harmless game invented by one of the sisters. A masterful storyteller once again displays her well-known talent for magic in this suspenseful, original, and often funny ghost story.
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A Treasury of Ghost Stories (A Treasury of Stories Series)
by Kenneth Ireland (Compiler), Tony Morris (Illustrator), Tomy Morris (Illustrator)
Shudders and giggles abound in this devilishly delightful collection of ghost stories written by Susan Price, Dick King-Smith, and Margaret Mahy, to name just a few of the contributors. Great for reading aloud. Illustrated.

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Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night
by Alice Low (Editor), Gahan Wilson (Illustrator)
From classic thrillers by Washington Irving and Charles Dickens to chilling legends from around the world retold by renowned authors such as Laurence Yep, to tales of fear from contemporary storytellers Bruce Coville and Stephanie Calmenson, this collection of spine-tingling stories and excerpts is sure to grab--and hold--young readers.

$13.97
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More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark : Collected from Folklore
by Alvin Schwartz (Designer), Stephen Gammell (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback
This second Scary Stories book by Alvin Schwartz is almost as good as the first title. The stories are great to read to yourself or young ones. The creepy drawings by Stephen Gammell add so much more detail to each story -- in short they are excellent. In all this book is lots of fun for all ages that are interested in scary stories from folklore.
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Scary Stories 3 : More Tales to Chill Your Bones
by Alvin Schwartz, Stephen Gammell (Illustrator)
The dark is alive with sounds: a creak, a thump, a moan--or is it just the wind? Filled with chilling shrieks and bloodcurdling laughter, Alvin Schwartz's new collection of 25 terrifying tales is guaranteed to set spines tingling with stories of swamp creatures, strange dreams that come true, and even children raised by wild animals.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
by Alvin Schwartz
Whether read in a quiet room with no one else around, or shared aloud on a moonless night, this book of scary stories will keep readers on the edge of their seats. "(Includes) traditional ghost tales, contemporary folklore, and chilling stories with surprise endings. . . . Superb illustrations."--The Horn Book.
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