Horror Stories
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Kingfisher
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780753456385
Copyright date: 1998
Subjects: Short Stories; Horror tales; Short Story Collections (Young Adult); Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction; Children: Grades 4-6; Anthologies; Horror & Ghost Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Horror & Ghost Stories; Children's stories; Horror stories
First sentence: WHEN THE WORDS "Not Guilty" sounded through the crowded courtroom that dark December afternoon, Arthur Wilbraham, the great criminal K.C., and leader for the triumphant defense, was represented by his junior: but Johnson, his private secretary, carried the verdict across to his chambers like lightning.
Table of contents: title: The kit-bag / Algernon Blackwood --; title: Here there be tygers / Stephen King --; title: The room in the tower / E.F. Benson --; title: Beyond lies the wub / Philip K. Dick --; title: Feeding the dog / Susan Price --; title: Teddies rule, ok? / Nicholas Fisk --; title: Grendel the monster / Eleanor Farjeon --; title: A grave misunderstanding / Leon Garfield --; title: Captain Murderer / Charles Dickens (from the Uncommercial traveler) --; title: Something / Joan Aiken --; title: The hand / Guy de Maupassant --; title: The boy next door / Ellen emerson White --; title: The murder hole / Scottish Folktale --; title: The famous five go pillaging / Terry Jones and Michael Pillaging. The affair at 7 Rue De M--; title: / John Steinbeck --; title: A change of aunts / Vivien Alcock --; title: The cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: The pear-drum / English folktale --; title: The Dog got them / Philippa Pearce --; title: Gabriel-Ernest / Saki (H.H. Munro) --; title: Nule / Jan Mark --; title: The dancing partner / Jerome K. Jerome --; title: The ring / Margaret Bingley --; title: The troll / T.H. White.