Author: Brian Jacques Publisher: Red Fox ISBN: 9781849419666 Category : Children's stories, English Languages : en Pages : 0
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This is a wonderfully creepy collection of stories featuring vampires, mummies and ghouls galore. And like all the best tales, the troublemakers always receive a grisly comeuppance!
Author: Lafcadio Hearn Publisher: Tuttle Publishing ISBN: 1462922015 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 133
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This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories! These classic Japanese ghost stories are based on those written by famed author Lafcadio Hearn between 1890 and 1904. Here, they are retold by award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson, who has garnered a worldwide fan base for his manga adaptations of works of Japanese literature, including such classics as The Book of Five Rings and The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts. Manga Yokai Stories includes: Nuke-kubi: A masterless samurai is trapped in a house haunted by headless goblins The Screen Maiden: A young man develops an obsession with a woman in a painting that almost kills him Corpse Rider: A woman's unburied corpse cannot rest until she has taken her revenge on the man who divorced her A Dead Secret: A young mother terrifies her family when she returns as a ghost, unable to find peace until she puts to rest a shocking secret she has left behind Wilson's skillful adaptation of Hearn's ghostly tales--along with superb manga illustrations from UK-based Japanese artist Inko Ai Takita--make these fascinating stories come to life. This book is in traditional Japanese reading order--from back to front--so that fans and manga lovers can enjoy an authentic reading experience.
Author: Brian Jacques Publisher: Putnam Juvenile ISBN: 9780399242205 Category : Children's stories, English Languages : en Pages : 0
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What if revenge were a monster of your own creation? If all you needed to summon this monster was enough hatred and enough imagination? Which of you would really be the monster? One boy is about to find out. The New York Timesbestselling author Brian Jacques (Loamhedge; The Angel's Command) spins six all-new tales of horror and suspense. Read on, but be careful of what brews in your heart. You may just find yourself the next victim of the Ribbajack. . . .:
Author: S. E. Schlosser Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493027999 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 257
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Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Michigan. Set in Michigan’s historic towns and sparsely populated backwoods, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again. Michigan folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser, and in artist Paul Hoffman’s evocative illustrations. You’ll hear otherworldly voices and things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma’s, this is a collection to treasure.
Author: Patricia A. Martinelli Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1493043838 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 289
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Hauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Garden State Reader, beware! Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghosts and ghouls alike creep just out of sight. Authors Patricia A. Martinelli and Charles A. Stansfield Jr. shine a light in the dark corners of New Jersey and scare those spirits out of hiding in this thrilling collection. From what may lurk in the Ramapo Mountains, to a ghostly little boy who waits on Clinton Road, and the fabled Jersey Devil itself, these stories of strange occurrences will keep you glued to the edge of your seat. Around the campfire or tucked away on a dark and stormy night, this big book of ghost stories is a hauntingly good read.
Author: Brian Jacques Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0441019986 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 370
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New York Times bestselling author Brian Jacques gives us another tale of Redwall, filled with “The Knights of the Round Table with paws” (The Sunday Times) along with their friends and enemies. Buckler the hare, Blademaster of the Long Patrol, must save the youngsters of Redwall Abbey—kidnapped by the vile Vilaya the Sable Quean—and stop the villain’s conquest of Mossflower Wood.
Author: Brian Jacques Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448120128 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 16
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Thomas P Kanne is the Phantom Snake, an elusive graffiti artist who has made many enemies in his attempts to vandalise his home city of Middlechester. Mr Bausin, the caretaker of the local museum is a seemingly harmless old man with a dark secret, but more importantly, a vendetta against the Phantom Snake. When Mr Bausin finally gets to confront his nemesis in the dark, abandoned corridors of the Egyptian exhibit, Thomas faces a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.
Author: Lucy Strange Publisher: Chicken House ISBN: 1761121847 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 236
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The Earl of Gosswater has died, and Agatha has been cast out of her ancestral home by her cruel cousin, Clarence. In a tiny tumbledown cottage, she struggles to adjust to her new life. And on the shores of Gosswater Lake, the spirit of another young girl will not rest...
Author: Will Osborne Publisher: ISBN: 9780590416900 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 100
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Osborne presents 13 gripping, true tales of the supernatural, including the case of a murder solved by a ghost. Young readers will love these spooky stories designed just for them.
Author: Brian Jacques
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Brian Jacques
Author: S. E. Schlosser
Author: Brian Jacques
Author: Patricia A. Martinelli
Author: Brian Jacques
Author: Brian Jacques
Author: Lucy Strange
Author: Will Osborne