Dead good read
Subtitle: twenty one classic tales of mystery & horror.
Publisher: Reader's Digest; Readers Digest
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Pleasantville, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780762103478
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Horror tales.; Children's stories.; Horror stories.; Short stories.
Description: Retellings of more than twenty classic horror tales from before the early twentieth century by such authors as Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, and Edgar Allen Poe.
Notes: Retellings of more than twenty classic horror tales from before the early twentieth century by such authors as Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, and Edgar Allen Poe.
Table of contents: title: Wolverden Tower --; title: The real and the counterfeit --; title: The middle toe of the right foot --; title: The portrait painter --; title: A Christmas carol --; title: The signalman --; title: The ghost chamber --; title: The old nurse's story --; title: The shadow --; title: The violet car --; title: The dead sexton --; title: Madam Crowl's ghost --; title: The pit and the pendulum --; title: The open door --; title: Frankenstein --; title: The body-snatcher --; title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde --; title: Dracula --; title: Dracula's guest --; title: The Canterville ghost --; title: The Phantom of the opera.