Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones
Author: Alvin Schwartz
Illustrator: Stephen Gammell
Book 3 in the Scary Stories series
Pages: 128
Published: 1991
Age: 9+
Storytellers know—just as they have for hundreds and hundreds of years—that everyone enjoys a good, scary story!
Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore to give readers spooky, funny and fantastic tales guaranteed to raise goose bumps.
Who is the Wolf girl? Why is a hearse filled with men with yellow glowing eyes? Can a nightmare become reality? How do you avoid an appointment with Death?
Find out in these more than two dozen genuinely creepy tales of folklore with haunting illustrations by Stephen Gemmell.
About the Scary Stories Series
Books in series order
- 1.Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(1981)
- 2.More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(1984)
- 3.Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones(1991)
Reading age: 9+ years
This spooky series is part of Alvin Schwartz's larger collection of books on American folklore is filled with tales of eerie horror and dark revenge that will make you jump with fright.
Stories range from creepy to terrifying – skeletons with torn and tangled flesh who roam the earth; a ghost who takes revenge on her murderer; and a haunted house where every night a bloody head falls down the chimney.
Stephen Gammell's splendidly creepy drawings perfectly capture the mood of the dozens of scary stories contained in these volumes . . . all just right for reading alone under the covers or for telling aloud in the dark.
Please Note: These books contain stories and images which may be upsetting to younger or more sensitive readers.