Alvin Schwartz

More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.

A collection of six stories about a family of silly people, based on noodle folklore from America, Europe, and Asia Minor.

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

Walking corpses, dancing bones, knife-wielding madmen, and narrow escapes from death—they're all here in this chilling collection of ghost stories, collected and retold by folklorist Alvin Schwartz. Brought to spine-tingling, flesh-crawling life by acclaimed Broadway actor (and master ghoul) George S. Irving, these horrific tales are guaranteed to

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Features twenty-five chilling tales of prophetic dreams, feral children raised by wild animals, swamp creatures, and other terrifying phenomena.

A collection of forty-six tongue twisters.

Presents instructions for speaking thirteen secret languages including Pig Latin, one of the best known and easiest codes to learn, and Boontling, developed by people in a California town.

Presents seven, easy-to-read ghost stories based on traditional folk tales and legends from various countries.

Traditional and modern-day tales and "jump" stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, haunts, superstitions, monsters and horrible scary things.

A collection of tall tales involving animals, the weather, narrow escapes, and many other topics.