A terrifying taste of short & shivery : thirty creepy tales /

San Souci, Robert D.

A terrifying taste of short & shivery : thirty creepy tales / retold by Robert D. San Souci ; illustrated by Lenny Wooden. - New York, N.Y. : Dell Yearling, 2004. - xii, 159 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

"A Dell Yearling book."

Crooker waits (British Isles--England) -- Yara-ma-yha-who (Australia) -- The fata (Italy) -- The fiddler (British Isles--Wales) -- Land-otter (Native American--Tlingit tribe) -- A fish story (United States--Virginia--African American traditional) -- Apparitions (Germany) -- The bijli (India) -- The lutin (Canada--French Canadian traditional) -- The hundredth skull (United States--Ohio) -- The ogre's arm (Japan) -- The hairy hands (British Isles--England) -- The snow husband (Native American--Algonquin tribe) -- The zimwi (Africa--from the Swahili) -- Witchbirds (France) -- Dangerous Hill (British Isles--England) -- The witch's head (El Salvador) -- Dinkins is dead (United States--South Carolina) -- Old Nan's ghost (British Isles--England) -- The interrupted wedding (Norway) -- The mulombe (Africa--Zimbabwe) -- The haunted grove (Canada) -- The tiger woman (China) -- Peacock's ghost (United States--Louisiana) -- Israel and the werewolf (Poland--Jewish traditional) -- Hoichi the earless (Japan--from Lafcadio Hearn) -- A snap of the fingers (Mexico) -- Narrow escape (United States--California) -- The black fox (United States--Connecticut) -- The mother and death (Denmark--from Hans Christian Andersen).

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Ghost stories.
Ghosts--Juvenile fiction.

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