Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night (Tr)

On a windy, stormy night, down a dark deserted road, you'll hear some scary sounds and meet some frightening figures! There's Captain Murderer, whose brides all meet a fearsom fate. And you'll find out how to deal with uninvited ghosts as well as what to do when a monster plans to make bedtime snack of you.

In old tales and new, master storytellers Washington Irving, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Laurence Yep, Stephanie Calmenson, and others will take you on a spine-tingling journey from forests of Russia to the bayous of the American South and around the globe. All in all, it's a delectably ghoulish collection guaranteed to make even the stoutest hearts tremble with fear.

Gahan Wilson's cartoons have appeared in the New Yorker as well as Weird Tales, Punch and Paris Match. He's written spooky stories of his own that have appeared in Omni and Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as children's books, including Hairticklers. Gahan Wilson lives in Sag Harbor, New York.

Alice Low is the author of more than twenty books for children, including The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches, an excerpt of which appears in this book. She also wrote The Macmillan Book of Greek Gods and Heroes, which received the 1988 Washington Irving Children's Book Choice Award. She lives in Briarcliff manor, New York.