Author: W. W. Jacobs
Publisher: Tacet Books
ISBN: 3968583159
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Halloween is one of our favorite holiday dates! A chance to unleash our tensions with games and costumes and be a child once again. Halloween is time for 'trick or treat' and scary readings. In addition to tricks and treats, Halloween is a good dose of horror stories! Check out the selection of seven tales of horror by the critic August Nemo: - The Monkey's Paw By W. W. Jacobs - 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' By M. R. James - Yuki-Onna By Lafcadio Hearn - The Terrible Old Man by H. P. Lovecraft - The Black Cat By Edgar Allan Poe - Lazarus By Leonid Andreyev - The Death of Halpin Frayser By Ambrose Bierce For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
Author: Josh Allen
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823449068
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night--but only if you dare. You never know what's out to get you. Though you might think you're safe from monsters and menaces, everyday objects can turn against you, too. A mysterious microwave. A threatening board game. A snowman that refuses to melt. Even your own heartbeat has its secrets. Thu-thump. Thu-thump. When you stop to listen, each beat sounds more menacing than the last. Master storyteller Josh Allen brings thirteen nightmare scenarios to life in this page-turning collection that's perfect for budding horror junkies. In his wondrous world, danger waits behind every doorway . . . even in the most ordinary places. Kids eager for age-appropriate horror will relish every thrill and chill. Eerie illustrations by award-winning artist Sarah Coleman accompany the stories, packaged in a stunning hardcover edition complete with glow-in-the-dark jacket. Readers will sleep with one eye open! Don't miss the author and illustrator's other creepy collections: Out to Get You and Once They See You.
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405911034
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Lamb to the Slaughter is a short, sharp, chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. In Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a twisted story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife serves up a dish that utterly baffles the police . . . Lamb to the Slaughter is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You, which includes seventeen other devious and shocking stories, featuring the two men who make an unusual and chilling wager over the provenance of a bottle of wine; a curious machine that reveals the horrifying truth about plants; the man waiting to be bitten by the venomous snake asleep on his stomach; and others. 'The absolute master of the twist in the tale.' (Observer ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Juliet Stevenson. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Author: Patricia Hegarty
Publisher: Caterpillar Books
ISBN: 9781848574021
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Five little ghosts at the end of the day, are on the lookout for somewhere to play! Follow the adventures of five little ghosts in this comical rhyming caper. From a dress-up box to midnight feasts, this cute board book features a host of friendly Halloween mischief!
Author: Cameron Chaney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781688117341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Welcome to Autumncrow Valley, where every night is Halloween. Enjoy your stay! But first, a few words of warning; Stay out of the forest. Never venture out after dark. And don't stare too long into the shadows...you may not like what you see. Have a pleasant visit. We hope it won't be your last...Author Cameron Chaney presents seven new tales of All Hallows terror, along with his newly revised novella "There Are Monsters Here", in print for the very first time!
Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: Tacet Books
ISBN: 8577771881
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
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According to her biographer, Julia Briggs, E. Nesbit was "the first modern writer for children": Nesbit "helped to reverse the great tradition of children's literature inaugurated by Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in turning away from their secondary worlds to the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels." Briggs also credits Nesbit with having invented the children's adventure story. This selection chosen by the critic August Nemo contains the following stories: - The Ebony Frame - John Charrington's Wedding - Uncle Abraham's Romance - The Mystery Of The Semi-Detached - From The Dead - Man-Size In Marble - The Mass For The Dead
Author: Julian Hawthorne
Publisher: Tacet Books
ISBN: 396858533X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Julian Hawthorne was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays and travel books. For this book, the critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this author: - David Poindexter's Disappearance. - Ken's Mystery. - When Half-gods Go, the Gods Arrive. - Set Not Thy Foot on Graves. - My Friend Paton. - The Christmas Guest. - The Laughing Mill
Author: Salem Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Author: Salem Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Author: Beverly Lamar
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
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