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Scary Stories: Boxed Set

Name: Scary Stories: Boxed Set
Author: Alvin Schwartz
ISBN: 9780064404655

by Alvin Schwartz, Stephen Gammell

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Overview

Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death — they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories.

Synopsis

Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death -- they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories.

About the Author, Alvin Schwartz

Alvin Schwartz is known for his more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explore everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. Don't miss his other Scary Stories collections, including More Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark and Scary Stories 3.

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Editorials

John Scieszka

A wonderful collection of tales that range from creepy to silly to haunting. Stephen Gammell's drawings add just the right touch of supernatural spookiness. —Entertinment Weekly

John Scieszka

A wonderful collection of tales that range from creepy to silly to haunting. Stephen Gammell's drawings add just the right touch of supernatural spookiness." (—Entertinment Weekly

New York Times

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Children's Literature - Susie Wilde

Families looking for good ghost stories will get satisfying shivers from Schwartz's three collections of folklore's Scary Stories. The best-selling collections, illustrated by Gammell, have now been boxed in one spine-tingling set of over eighty stories.