About the Book

The iconic anthology series of horror tales that's now a feature film!

Welcome to the macabre world of Scary Stories, where folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time. Inside this three-book paperback box set, you'll find alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and the supernatural, with spine-tingling illustrations by renowned artist Brett Helquist.

Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death—they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories. Make sure you read these books with the light ON!

This collection includes all three books in the series: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and Scary Stories 3.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9780061980930
• ISBN 10: 0061980935
• Imprint: HarperCollins
• On Sale: 09/27/2011
• Pages: 128
• List Price:29.99 CAD
• Ages: 8 to 12
• BISAC1 : JUVENILE FICTION / Horror
• BISAC2 : JUVENILE FICTION / Classics
• BISAC3 : JUVENILE FICTION / Short Stories

Alvin Schwartz

Biography

Alvin Schwartz is known for a body of work of more than two dozen books of folklore for young readers that explores everything from wordplay and humor to tales and legends of all kinds. His collections of scary stories—Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Scary Stories 3, and two I Can Read books, In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories and Ghosts!—are just one part of his matchless folklore collection.

Other Works by Alvin Schwartz

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  Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

  By Alvin Schwartz

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  Scary Stories Audio Collection

  By Alvin Schwartz

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  Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Three Books to Chill Your Bones

  By Alvin Schwartz

Brett Helquist

Biography

Brett Helquist's celebrated art has graced books from the charming Bedtime for Bear, which he also wrote, to the New York Times–bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket to the glorious picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York.

Other Works by Brett Helquist

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  A Series of Unfortunate Events #10: The Slippery Slope Netflix Tie-in

  By Brett Helquist

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  A Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto Netflix Tie-in

  By Brett Helquist

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  A Series of Unfortunate Events #12: The Penultimate Peril Netflix Tie-in

  By Brett Helquist