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Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night
By Lowe, Alice & Low, Alice & Wilson, Gahan
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-78680-012-4
- Publisher
- New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c1994.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 1994
Gr 3-5 This group of 19 tales is really more black humor than horror. Familiar stories such as "Wiley and the Hairy Man," and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" are included along with the delightfully strange "My Neighbor Is a Monster, Pass It On," the only story original to this collection. Most of the books the selections were taken from are readily available, such as Isaac Bashevis Singer's Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (1966), Laurence Yep's The Rainbow People (1989) and Alison Lurie's Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales (1980, all HarperCollins). This collection is simil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
