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Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream

by Peter Haining · 1998

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Anthology: Give yourself the shivers with these fourteen stories by the master scaremongers.

1. The Spell - R. L. Stine

2. It's a Good Life - Jerome Bixby

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3. Drink My Red Blood - Richard Matheson

4. Something Nasty - William F. Nolan

5. The Restless Ghost - Leon Garfield

6. The Thirteenth Day of Christmas - Isaac Asimov

7. Hush! - Zenna Henderson

8. Spotty Powder - Roald Dahl

9. A Baby Tramp - Ambrose Bierce

10. The Man Upstairs - Ray Bradbury

11. Dead Language Master - Joan Aiken

12. Here There Be Tygers - Stephen King

13. The Trick ["Trick or Treat"] - Ramsey Campbell

14. A Toy for Juliette - Robert Bloch

Genre
horrorhorrorMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adult
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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