Alvin Schwartz
Author
Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 4
Language
English
Description
Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories
Author
Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 2
Language
English
Description
More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.
Author
Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.
Author
Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
113 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time.
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
©1982
Physical Desc
82 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents instructions for speaking thirteen secret languages, including Pig Latin, one of the best known and easiest codes to learn, and Boontling, developed by people in a California town. Thirteen different secret languages and codes are described and explained. Literature of Delight. The famous punster, prankster, and riddle-regaler goes global for a look at the "ecret-say" "anguages-lay" of the world's children. It's the ripest kind of fun, with...
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
c1980
Physical Desc
125 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of spoonerisms, word plays, visual jokes and riddles, punctuation rhymes, nursery rhyme parodies, and other nonsense speech, verses, and stories compiled from folk sources around the country
Publisher
Wild Eye Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.