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Genre/Form: | Horror Folklore Horror tales |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Young; Judy Dockrey Young; Wendell E Hall |
ISBN: | 0874833825 9780874833829 0874832713 9780874832716 |
OCLC Number: | 228464213 |
Notes: | Sequel to: Favorite scary stories of American children / [edited by] Richard and Judy Dockrey Young. 1990. Reprint. Originally published: 1993. |
Description: | 174 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | 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 back seat -- Little white dog -- Step-drag -- Lady from the lake -- Headless brakeman -- Terror of our nation: Wendigo -- Tad O'Cain and the corpse -- Phantom ship -- Spin! Spin! Reel off, skin! -- Tailbones -- Rosewood casket -- Angelina -- Curse of Kilauea -- Lady in 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. |
Series Title: | American storytelling |
Responsibility: | collected by Richard and Judy Dockrey Young ; introduction by Jan Harold Brunvand ; illustrations by Wendell E. Hall. |
Abstract:
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!"
Gathers urban legends and stories about ghosts, murderers, corpses, curses, cannibalism, and monsters.
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