A terrifying taste of short & shivery : thirty creepy tales
(1998)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Y/FOLKTALES/WORLD/SAN
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Delacorte Press, [1998]
©1998
©1998
DESCRIPTION
xii, 159 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0385326351
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Crooker waits -- Yara-ma-yha-who -- The fata -- Land-otter -- A fish story -- Apparitions -- The bijli -- The lutin -- The hundredth skull -- The ogre's arm -- The hairy hands -- The zimwi -- Witchbirds -- Dangerous Hill -- The witch's head -- Dinkins is dead -- Old Nan's ghost -- The interrupted wedding -- The mulombe -- The haunted grove -- The tiger woman -- Peacock's ghost -- Israel and the werewolf -- Hoichi the fearless -- A snap of the fingers -- Narrow escape -- The black fox -- The mother and death
A collection of scary traditional tales from all over the world, including "Apparitions" from Germany, "The Hundredth Skull" from Ohio, and "The Ogre's Arm" from Japan