Format:
Book
Title:
The Kingfisher treasury of spooky stories
Other title(s):
Spooky stories
Uniform Title:
Treasury of spooky stories.
ISBN:
9780753456347
Publication Information:
Boston, Mass. : Kingfisher, 2003, ©1992.
Physical Description:
156 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Number in series:
2
General Note:
Originally titled: The treasury of spooky stories.
Contents:
Guitarist / Grace Hallworth -- In a dark, dark box / Jane Hollowood -- Fraid / Susan Price -- House that lacked a bogle / Sorche Nic Leodhas -- Teeny-tiny / retold by Joseph Jacobs -- Ghost train / Sydney J. Bounds -- Story about death / Judith Gorog -- Shiver and shake / Grimm Brothers retold by Amabel Williams-Ellis -- They wait / Jan Mark -- Wind on haunted hill / Ruskin Bond -- Haunting (An excerpt) / Margaret Mahy -- Ghost soup / retold by John Paton -- Peculiar such thing / Virginia Hamilton -- Hairy toe / Anonymous.
Summary:
A collection of modern and traditional stories about ghosts and other spooky things, by such authors as Margaret Mahy, Judith Gorog, and Virginia Hamilton.
Reading Level:
005-008.