Laughter and Chills
Subtitle: seven great stories
By: edited by Anne G. Crocco, et al. ; afterword by Beth Johnson
Contributors: Taylor, Hal, illustrator; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870; Irving, Washington, 1783-1859; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; Saki, 1870-1916; Saki, 1870-1916; Henry, O., 1862-1910
Series: The Townsend library
Publisher: Townsend Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: West Berlin, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781591940401
Subjects: High interest-low vocabulary books; Readers for new literates
Other titles: Seven great stories
Description: Get ready to chuckle and to shiver - sometimes both at once! Within these pages you'll encounter situations that are scary or amusing, but always unforgettable. Here are just three of them: when blundering kidnappers snatch a little boy, the hilarious events that follow will leave you wondering who the "victim" really is; two old friends enter the gloomy wine cellar, its cold walls dripping with dampness. Only one of the friends will ever leave; and riding home from a late-night party, a timid schoolmaster is pursued by a terrifying man on horseback - a man with no head. - Back cover.

To help students experience the joys and benefits of reading, Townsend Press presents the Townsend Library - a collection of high-interest classics. Each Townsend Library book has been carefully edited to maintain the original story while updating language and style for today's readers. - Publisher.
Notes: "Illustrations by Hal Taylor."
Table of contents: title: The storyteller  -- Saki; title: The ransom of Red Chief  -- O'Henry; title: The open window  -- Saki; title: The cask of Montillado  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: The tell-tale heart  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: The legend of Sleepy Hollow  -- Washington Irving; title: A Christmas carol  -- Charles Dickens; title: Afterword.