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In a dark, dark room : and other scary stories / retold by Alvin Schwartz ; illustrated by Dirk Zimmer.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Z 675 .P3 K53 no.4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-1992, author.
- Series:
- I can read book
- An I can read book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales.
- Horror tales.
- Children's stories.
- Folklore.
- Horror stories.
- Ghosts--Folklore.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Horror tales.
- Children's stories.
- Horror stories.
- short stories.
- High interest-low vocabulary books.
- Horror fiction.
- Ghost stories.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Short stories.
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- 63 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper & Row, [1984]
- Summary:
- Seven scary stories to tell at night in front of a fire or in the dark, based on traditional stories and folktales from various countries.
- Contents:
- The teeth (Surinam (Dutch Guiana))
- In the graveyard (short version of the traditional song "Old woman all skin and bone")
- The green ribbon (Europe)
- In a dark, dark room (England and America)
- The night it rained (loosely based on the folktale of "The ghostly hitchhiker")
- The pirate (British)
- The ghost of John (Stockton, California).
- Participant:
- Pictures by Dirk Zimmer.
- Local Notes:
- HSP Pedagogical Collection.
- Other Edition:
- Large print editon: Schwartz, Alvin, 1927-1992. Vancouver : Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired, 2015
- ISBN:
- 0060252715
- 9780060252717
- 006025274X
- 9780060252748
- 1559942339
- 9781559942331
- 0064440907
- 9780064440905
- 9781442005204
- 1442005203
- 9781435107762
- 1435107764
- 006264338X
- 9780062643384
- 9780606003100
- 060600310X
- 059045028X
- 9780590450287
- OCLC:
- 9557478
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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