Scary Stories
Goose bumps along your arms, the hairs rising on the back of your neck, these are the sure signs you're immersed in a great scary story. Featuring classic stories by such timeless authors as Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and H. G....
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Goose bumps along your arms, the hairs rising on the back of your neck, these are the sure signs you're immersed in a great scary story. Featuring classic stories by such timeless authors as Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and H. G. Wells, this spellbinding collection also includes modern masterpieces by contemporary legends like Stephen King, Roald Dahl, Shirley Jackson, Joyce Carol Oates, and Ray Bradbury.Celebrated artist Barry Moser's twenty unforgettable engravings capture all the suspense and horror in these brilliant stories, making this a deluxe illustrated edition that readers of all ages will want to return to again and again...if they dare!
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780811854146 (0811854140)
Publish date: August 17th 2006
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Pages no: 184
Edition language: English
The stories are all "finest kind", and Moser's woodcuts are just outstandingly creepy.*** I picked it up thinking it was the reissue of scat stories to tell in the dark, with the less horrific art, which it isn't. What it was, was a good entre back into reading: a gateway book. Library copy