- Cuentos de terror estadounidenses, American Ghost stories, American Horror tales, Cuentos de fantasmas estadounidenses
More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.
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Classical in form, spare, unpretentious and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Alvin Schwartz
- First published
- September 1987
- Pages
- 111
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc., Scholastic, HarperTrophy
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780439518345
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“One morning John Sullivan found himself walking along a street downtown.”
Alvin Schwartz began his career as a journalist, but, after the publication of his bestselling book ***A Twister of Twists, a Tangler of Tongues***, he devoted himself to becoming a collector and arranger of folk wisdom, rhyme, and silliness. Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explore everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. Schwatz is best known for the *Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark* series, which featured gruesome, nightmarish illustrations by Stephen Gammell. The series was America's most frequently challenged book (or book series) for library inclusion of 1990-1999.
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