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Scary!

Scary!

by Peter Haining, Robert Lawrence Stine, Jerome Bixby

1998American Horror talesEnglish Horror talesEnglish Short storiesAmerican Short stories
3.8
Open Library
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About this book

Anthology: Give yourself the shivers with these fourteen stories by the master scaremongers. 1. The Spell - R. L. Stine 2. It’s a Good Life - Jerome Bixby 3. Drink My Red Blood - Richard Matheson 4. Something Nasty - William F. Nolan 5. The Restless Ghost - Leon Garfield 6. The Thirteenth Day of Christmas - Isaac Asimov 7. Hush! - Zenna Henderson 8. Spotty Powder - Roald Dahl 9. A Baby Tramp - Ambrose Bierce 10. The Man Upstairs - Ray Bradbury 11. Dead Language Master - Joan Aiken 12. Here There Be Tygers - Stephen King 13. The Trick [“Trick or Treat”] - Ramsey Campbell 14. A Toy for Juliette - Robert Bloch

Themes & subjects

American Horror talesEnglish Horror talesEnglish Short storiesAmerican Short stories
First published 1998

About the authors

Peter Haining
Peter Haining

1940-04-02 – 2007-11-19

> Peter Haining ist ein bekannter Autor und Herausgeber makaberer Literatur. Seine Bücher wurden in mehreren Sprachen auf der ganzen Welt veröffentlicht. > > Er lebt in Suffolk, England, und ist Besitzer einer umfangreichen Bibliothek mit seltenen Büchern und Schriften, woraus er eine ganze Menge seines Arbeitsmaterials bezieht. Außerdem kennt er viele große Autoren dieser Literaturgattung persönlich. > > Unter Kennern hat sich Peter Haining in Deutschland bereits einen Namen ge-macht. Nachdem schon mehrere Gruselanthologien für Erwachsene von ihm veröffentlicht wurden, werden jetzt in der Reihe »Hainings Gruselkabinett« Gruselanthologien für Jugendliche und Erwachsene herausgegeben. > …

Robert Lawrence Stine
Robert Lawrence Stine

8 October 1943

Robert Lawrence Stine, known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American writer. Stine, who is often called the "Stephen King of Children's literature," is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Fear Street series. Some of his lesser-known works include a Space Cadets trilogy, two Hark gamebooks, a two-part novel The Beast and dozens of joke books.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._L._Stine

Jerome Bixby
Jerome Bixby

11 January 1923 – 28 April 1998

Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby

Authors

Peter Haining, Robert Lawrence Stine, Jerome Bixby

First published

1998

Pages

224

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

6

Language

English

Publisher

Souvenir Press Ltd

ISBN

9780285634497

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