Scary Stories
About this book
Kittens / Dean Koontz -- The Magic Shop / H.G. Wells -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- Tell-tale Heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Genesis and catastrophe (a true story) / Roald Dahl -- The squaw / Bram Stoker -- Here there be tygers / Stephen King -- Man overboard! / Winston Churchill -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The bus-conductor / E.F. Benson -- Thanksgiving / Joyce Carol Oates -- Excerpt from The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The terrible old man / H.P. Lovecraft -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- The man upstairs / Ray Bradbury -- The music on the hill / Saki -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- Fingers on the back of the neck / Margaret Mahy -- The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service.
Subjects
- american horror stories
- american horror tales
- american literature
- austrian germans
- children's fiction
- classic literature
- crime
- crime fiction
- detective and mystery stories
- doctors
- english horror stories
- fiction
- first-person narrative
- ghosts, fiction
- gothic fiction
- homicide
- horror
- horror fiction
- horror stories
- horror tales
- hyperesthesia
- juvenile audience
- juvenile fiction
- midwives
- murder
- short stories