Book Descriptions
for More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Brett Helquist
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Marvelously eerie pencil drawings evoke the moods of 28 tales collected and recorded as one aspect of American folk life. Extensive notes and a bibliography of related books and articles anchor the fantastic, the macabre and the humor to tradition as well as to scholarship. A sequel to SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK (Lippincott, 1981). (Age 9 and older)
CCBC Choices 1984 . © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1984. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Do you like to be scared?
Ellen had just fallen asleep when she heard a strange voice.
"Ellen," it whispered, "I am coming up the stairs."
Ellen was frightened and called her parents, but they didn't hear her, and they didn't come. . . .
Welcome to the frightening world of Scary Stories, a collection of folklorist Alvin Schwartz’s most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time, with spine-tingling illustrations by renowned artist Brett Helquist.
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