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The Scary story reader, forty-one of the scariest stories for sleepovers, campfires, car & bus trips-even for dates!, collected by Richard and Judy Dockrey Young ; introduction by Jan Harold Brunvand ; illustrations by Wendell E. Hall

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The Scary story reader

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collected by Richard and Judy Dockrey Young ; introduction by Jan Harold Brunvand ; illustrations by Wendell E. Hall

forty-one of the scariest stories for sleepovers, campfires, car & bus trips-even for dates!

A collection of scary urban legends and other modern-day horror tales preserved by oral tradition, including "Hook-arm," "The Call from the Downstairs Phone," and "Give Me Back My Guts!"

Classic urban legends: Don't look back -- Hook-arm -- Pond of snakes -- Call from the downstairs phone -- Call from the grave -- Last kiss -- Urban runners-up: Outside the door -- Killer in the black seat -- Little white dog -- Step-drag -- Lady from the lake -- Headless brakeman -- Terror of our nation: The Wendigo -- Tad O'Cain and the corpse -- Phantom ship -- Spin! Spin! Reel off, skin! -- Tailbones -- Rosewood casket -- Angelina -- Curse of Kilauea -- Lady is white on Mount Hood -- Ghost people -- Children of the glacier -- The thing in Lac De Smet -- Ghost of Prairie Rose -- Skull in the road -- Bloody benders -- Bearwalker(cont.) Jump!: But I'm not! -- Tillie Williams -- Dead man's hand -- Laugh yourself to death: Dottie got her liver -- Bony fingers -- It floats! -- Viper -- Bloody fingers -- Skeleton in the closet -- Our favorite horror tales: Give me back my guts! -- Scout and the snake eggs -- 11:11 -- White dress

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