There are ghosts and ghouls galore in this treasury of spooky stories for boys. Choose from a variety of original, creepy tales set in cob-webbed dungeons, haunted houses, and slime covered cellars, Find out what lurks in the shadows or the night and enjoy the spine-tingling thrills.

Collects twelve stories about witches, ghosts, vampires, and similarly spooky creatures.

A collection of modern and traditional stories about ghosts and other spooky things, by such authors as Margaret Mahy, Judith Gorog, and Virginia Hamilton.

Illustrations and photos geared toward young readers

"51 spine-chilling tales from every state in the Union plus Washington, D.C."--Jacket subtitle.

A Vintage Contemporaries Original Includes: Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon" Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter" Dan Chaon's "The Bees" Kelly Link's "Catskin" Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman" Carol Emshwiller's "The General" Neil Gaiman's "Closing Time" Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium" Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick" Michael Crichton's "Blood Doesn’t Come Out" Laurie King's "Weaving the Dark" Chris Offutt's "Chuck’s Bucket" Dave Eggers's "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly" Michael Moorcock's "The Case of the Nazi Canary" Aimee Bender's "The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers" Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That" Karen Joy Fowler's "Private Grave 9" Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes" Michael Chabon's "The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance" Sherman Alexie's "Ghost Dance"

This carefully crafted ebook: "MYSTERY & HORROR COLLECTION – Witch Wood & Other Dark-'N'-Spooky Tales” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "The Wind in the Portico” – a man decks up his house with remnants of pagan temples and gods but himself starts performing horrific ancient rituals... "The Green Wildebeest” – a man is cursed when he desecrates a sacred African grove... "No-man's-land” – a man comes face-to-face with a beast in wilderness who hunts cattle and murders people... "The Watcher by the Threshold” – An unmentionable creature piggybacks a man from his near-death experience... "Space” – A brilliant mathematician theorizes the existence of a new dimension but it is not uninhabited, something lurks there... "Tendebaunt Manus” – war affects two brothers, kills one and changes another... "Witch Wood” – ancient Scottish witchcraft practices make a comeback and must be stopped before more lives are endangered. "A Journey of Little Profit” – a shepherd is transformed into a nice person but why and how? "The Outgoing of the Tide” – jealousy and witchcraft never go well for anyone! "The Grove of Ashtaroth” – a home in African wilderness with an ancient temple in its vicinity affects its new occupant... "Basilissa” – a curious nightmare leads to a deadly countdown or is it a warning? "Fullcircle” – a haunted new-house and a doomed family ... "Magic-Walking Stick” – an old man gives Bill an enchanted walking-stick... "Skule Skerry” – an island for migratory birds attracts other unnatural creatures as well... "The Strange Adventure of Mr. Andrew Hawthorn” – after his disappearance, Hawthorne returns to narrate what happened to him... John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada's Governor General. His 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies.

About the Book The Old West has intrigued the imaginations of many over the years, drawing people in with the mystery and wonders of the wilderness, gun fights, and stories of heroes and villains. But there is more than meets the eye to the Old West: there is a wild magic that lives within the bones that make up the land. Ghost Town: Spooky Stories of the Old West takes the supernatural and places it into the heart of the Western. With tales of ghost towns, spells, mysterious and mystical women, and everything in between, the genre of the Supernatural Western is born. About the Author Richard Brent Reed has been a teacher and attorney with experience in acting, directing, and writing for the stage. He enjoys music, geology, history, horticulture, natural history, and paleontology.

Growing up in a Mennonite family in Inverness, Idaho back in the forties and fifties, John Reisender is perplexed. Why had Great-grandma been married in a Muslim mosque way hell and gone out in the wilds of Central Asia? On the road to solving this puzzle, he finds himself excommunicated, temporarily, from the family religion. He discovers that his maternal grandfather had escaped Czarist Russia, acts as an undertaker for a cat’s funeral, takes a crash course in Nietzsche from the keeper of the city dump, escapes drowning, becomes an unsung, accidental semi-hero in a high school football game, cheats death on a spelunking expedition, and falls in lust with a pious girl who sports a derriere that reminds him of the WWII pinup girl, Betty Grable. With a Dickensian cast of characters brimming with eccentrics, Crazy Were We in the Head hilariously and often movingly chronicles a singular American boyhood. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ’Tis that I may not weep. —Lord Byron

This meticulously edited collection of Christmas mysteries is bound to satisfy the cravings for a spooky and eerie Christmas for the aficionados of the horror and supernatural fiction. Until then, stay safe! The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki) Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould) The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James) The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens) Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Ghost's Touch (Fergus Hume) Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould) The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip) A Terrible Christmas Eve (Lucie E. Jackson) Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) The Ghost: A Christmas Story (William Douglas O'Connor) Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs) The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa (John Kendrick Bangs) The Abbot's Ghost; or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott) Old Applejoy's Ghost (Frank R. Stockton) Wolverden Tower (Grant Allen) The Christmas-Eve Vigil (James Bowker) Told After Supper (Jerome K. Jerome) The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat) Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford) The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (Charles Dickens) The Ghost of Christmas Eve (J. M. Barrie) The Dead Sexton (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu) Uncle Cornelius His Story (George MacDonald) The Grave by the Handpost (Thomas Hardy) Number Ninety (Bithia Mary Croker) At Chrighton Abbey (Mary Elizabeth Braddon) The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step (Catherine L. Pirkis) Between the Lights (E. F. Benson)