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San Souci, Robert D.
More short & shivery :
thirty terrifying tales /
retold by Robert D. San Souci ; illustrated by Katherine Coville and Jacqueline Rogers.
More short and shivery.
©1994.
New York :
Yearling,
[2015]
ix, 213 p. :
ill. ;
20 cm.
Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, 1994.
"First Yearling edition 2002"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-213).
"Hold him, Tabb!" (United States -- Virginia) -- The witches' eyes (Spanish American -- American Southwest) -- The duppy (Haiti) -- Two snakes (China) -- The draug (Norway) -- The vampire cat (Japan) -- Windigo Island (Canada) -- The haunted inn (China) -- The rolling head (North America -- Plains Indians) -- The Croglin Grange vampire (British Isles -- England) -- The Yara (Brazil) -- "Me, myself!" (British Isles -- Scotland) -- Island of fear (North America -- Seneca tribe) -- Three who sought death (British Isles-England-from Geoffrey Chaucer) -- Sister Death and the healer (Mexico/American Southwest) -- The mouse tower (German) -- The Devil and Tom Walter (United States -- from a tale by Washington Irving) -- The greedy daughter (Italy) -- The pirate (United States -- adapted from a poem by Richard H. Dana) -- The golden arm (British Isles -- England) -- The serpent woman (Spain) -- Loft the Enchanter (Iceland) -- The accursed house (United States -- Ohio) -- Escape up the tree (Nigeria) -- The headrest (Papua New Guinea) -- The thing in the woods (United States -- Louisiana) -- King of the cats (British Isles -- England) -- The dead mother (Russia) -- Knock...knock...knock (United States/Canada -- urban folklore) -- Twice surprised (Japan).
Kirkus Aug 1994.
Presents a collection of scary folktales from the United States, China, England, Italy, Russia, and other countries around the world. Inviting readers back to a hair-raising world of chills and thrills, this companion to "Short & Shivery" presents 30 carefully selected stories from international ghostlore, both classic and contemporary, vividly retold with ghastly details and spooky endings. Illustrations.
AR 6.4.
20160907.
Tales.
Ghosts
Folklore.
Supernatural
Folklore.
Folklore.
Ghost stories.
Coville, Katherine,
illustrator.
Rogers, Jacqueline,
1958-,
illustrator.
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