Beware: R.L Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories
By (Author) R l Stine
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperCollins Children's Books
2nd December 2002
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage: Anthologies
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers
FIC
Hardback
224
Width 205mm, Height 244mm, Spine 29mm
762g
Dim the lights. Lock the doors. Pull down the shadesand BEWARE! It's time to read the favorite scary stories of R.L. Stine, bestselling childrens author and master of the spooky tale.
R.L. Stine has gathered a selection of all things scary, and even added two new tales of his own! Short stories, fables old and new, comics, and poems. Its a spine-tingling collection of work by dozens of writers and artists who are famous for hair-raising fun.
Discover a ghastly secret in a retelling of the classic story "The Judges House," by Bram Stoker. Peek into a Christmas stocking that holds a shocking surprise in a Vault of Horror comic, "A Sock for Christmas." Meet an ice-cream man who will chill your blood in "Mister Ice Cold" by Gahan Wilson.
But first, visit an evil carnival in "The Black Ferris," by Ray Bradbury. R.L. Stine says that this story changed his life! Be sure to read all the introductionsbecause R.L. reveals why he picked these stories just for you, and why he finds them the creepiest ... the funniest ... the scariest! BEWARE!
R.L. Stine began his writing career at the age of nine and has been at it ever since, becoming a bestselling author several times over. Among his many groundbreaking credits are Fear Street, the first young adult horror series, and Goosebumps, the bestselling series that made Stine the #1 bestselling author in America for three years in a row. He lives with his wife in New York City.