Scary Stories Author:Barry Moser (Illustrator) 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 ... more »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!
Introduction by Peter Glassman.
Kittens / Dean Koontz --
The Magic Shop / H.G. Wells --
Miriam / Truman Capote --
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --
Genesis and catastrophe / Roald Dahl --
The squaw / Bram Stoker --
Here there be tygers / Stephen King --
"Man overboard" / Winston Churchill --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
The bus-conductor / E.F. Benson --
Thanksgiving / Joyce Carol Oates --
from The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving --
The terrible old man / H.P. Lovecraft --
John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit --
The furnished room / O. Henry --
The man upstairs / Ray Bradbury --
The music on the hill / Saki --
The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce --
Fingers on the back of the neck / Margaret Mahy --