Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
By: collected from folklore and retold by Alvin Schwartz ; with drawings by Stephen Gammell.
Contributors: Gammell, Stephen, ill.
Series: A Scholastic Book
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780590431972
Copyright date: 1981 by Alvin Schwartz; Stephen Gammell (illus)
Subjects: Ghost stories, American.; Tales -- America.; Ghosts -- Folklore.; Horror stories.; Folklore -- United States.
Genres: Folklore.
Description: Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.
Notes: ***Published & Printed in the U.S.A.*** Lexile Meas. 640
Table of contents: title: "AAAAAAAAAAAH!" : the big toe, the walk,  "what do you come for, me tie dough-ty walker, a man who lived in leeds, old woman all skin and bone,  He heard footsteps coming up the cellar stairs : the thing, cold as clay, the white wolf, the haunted house, the guests; title: They eat your eyes, they eat your nose : the hearse song, the girl who stood on a grave, a new horse, alligators, room for one more, the wendigo, the dead man's brains "may I carry your basket?"; title: Other dangers : the hook, the white satin evening gown, high beams, the babysitter; title: "AAAAAAAAAAAH?" : the viper, the attic, the slithery-dee, Aaron Kelly's bones, wait till Martin comes, the ghost with the bloody fingers.