The Scariest Stories You've Ever Heard, Part 3
Author: Tracey E. Dils
This third collection of horror stories for kids was published in 1990. The Scariest Stories You've Ever Heard books (there are 3 of them!) gather together adaptations of ghost stories/urban legends/campfire tales that we all scared each other with as kids....the hookman, the phone call coming from inside the house, the axe murderer hiding in the back seat of the car, the empty house that holds a secret, etc etc. We all loved these stories as kids...and kids today love them too! This third and last volume gathers 9 more creepy-cool stories reimagined by author Tracey Dils!
The stories in these books are creepy....but not TOO creepy. Definitely ok for middle grade students to enjoy. I could see the stories being a great way to get a classroom of kids started on a creative writing assignment to write their own scary tale! Or for some fun Halloween-theme reading in the fall.
The cover art (by Richard Kriegler) is wonderful! This 3rd book is my favorite!
I enjoyed all of these stories! Very entertaining! And despite being published almost 30 years ago, the stories aren't dated. Face it -- we've all been scaring each other with these basic stories for a very, very long time!
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