Stephen Gammell
1) Mudkin
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Language
English
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Description
While playing outside on a rainy day, a little girl peers into a puddle and sees Mudkin, who invites her to become his queen.
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Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Tapped from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings.
6) Twigboy
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Having wandered into dangerous Weedland, Twigboy is saved by Rockwell, a rolling rock, and together the two set out to get revenge.
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Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 2
Language
English
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Description
More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.
Author
Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 3
Language
English
Description
Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.
Author
Publisher
Jewish Publication Society
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
In this allegory, the author's reaction to the Holocaust, the animals of the forest are carried away, one type after another, by the Terrible Things, not realizing that if perhaps they would all stick together and not look the other way, such terrible things might not happen.
18) Hey, pancakes!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The day gets off to a rough start, but soon the smell of pancakes fills the air and a family gathers for a breakfast feast.
Author
Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traditional and modern-day tales and "jump" stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, haunts, superstitions, monsters and horrible scary things.
20) Old black fly
Author
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text and illustrations follow a mischievous old black fly through the alphabet as he has a very busy bad day landing where he should not be.