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"This collection of 16 short stories features spooky, funny, mysterious, and strange tales that are perfect for kids ages 6 to 9 to read aloud with friends and family"-- Provided by publisher.

"A special trade paperback deluxe collector's edition featuring sprayed edges and a new Afterword by the author celebrating the 20th anniversary of Joe Hill's award-winning story collection, featuring "The Black Phone," basis for the major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions starring Ethan Hawke. Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. Francis was human once, but...

Hazel, a twelve-year-old aspiring detective, must decode a series of ominous clues tied to a century-old tragedy to find a missing teenager before it is too late.

More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.

Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.

Contains eight tales of supernatural horror by genre master M.R. James. Highly regarded as a masterwork of horror.

"A painting has been stolen...! When Rami sees a floating girl in the museum, he knows he has seen her somewhere before. Then he realizes: She looks just like the girl in the painting that has gone missing. But how does her appearance connect to the theft? Agatha the turtle knows -- she has been watching from the garden. But she can't exactly tell anyone...can she? Will Rami, with the help of his classmate, Veda, be able to solve the mystery? The...

A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of...

Anticipating the fun of exploring a cave he finds down by the beach, Jerry dismisses the story the other kids tell him of the spooky three-hundred-year-old ghost that lives in the cave and comes out when the moon is full.

One of the most popular pieces of American fiction is Washington Irving s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, originally published in 1820 in Irving s short story collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Set in New York s Hudson River valley after the American Revolution, it is rich with Dutch culture, regional history, and ghost stories. In schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his adversary the Headless Horseman, Irving created two of the most unforgettable...